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George Raft
George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in the original Scarface (1932), Each Dawn I Die (1939), and Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, as a dancer in Bolero (1934), and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940).
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
The Man with Bogart's Face
Gay, Gay Hollywood
Sextette
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Hammersmith Is Out
Deadhead Miles
The Movie Orgy
Skidoo
Casino Royale
Five Golden Dragons
The Upper Hand
The Patsy
For Those Who Think Young
The Ladies Man
Ocean's Eleven
Some Like It Hot
Jet Over The Atlantic
Around the World in 80 Days
A Bullet for Joey
Rogue Cop
Black Widow
The Man From Cairo
Loan Shark
Escape Route