Steven Geray | |
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Born | István Gyergyai 10 November 1904 |
Died | 26 December 1973 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 69)
Nationality | Hungarian |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1929–1966 |
Spouses |
Steven Geray (born István Gyergyai, 10 November 1904 – 26 December 1973) was a Hungarian-born American film actor who appeared in over 100 films and dozens of television programs.[1] Geray appeared in numerous famed A-pictures, including Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and To Catch a Thief (1955), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve (1950), and Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). However, it was in film noir that be became a fixture, being cast in over a dozen pictures in the genre. Among them were The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), Gilda (1946), The Unfaithful (1947), In a Lonely Place (1950), and The House on Telegraph Hill (1951).[2]