Steven Geray

Steven Geray (69)

1904-11-10 - 1973-12-26 | Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Steven Geray, born Istvan Gyergyay (10 November 1904 – 26 December 1973) was a film actor who appeared in over 100 films and dozens of television programs. Geray appeared in Spellbound (1945), Gilda (1946), In a Lonely Place (1950), All About Eve (1950), Call Me Madam (1953) and To Catch a Thief (1955). He was born in Ungvár, Austria-Hungary (now Uzhgorod, Ukraine) and educated at the University of Budapest. He made his first stage appearance at the Hungarian National Theater under his real name and after nearly four years he made his London stage debut (as Steven Geray) in 1934, appearing in Happy Week-End!. He began appearing in English-speaking films in 1935 and moved to Hollywood in 1941. He appeared alongside his wife, Magda Kun, in the 1935 film Dance Band. Geray was cast as the lead in a low-budget film noir So Dark the Night (1946). Even with its limited budget, it received great critical reviews and enabled its director Joseph H. Lewis to later direct A-pictures. Geray continued to work on television and in films into the 1960s. Among them a guest appearance on Perry Mason in 1962 as extortionist and murder victim Franz Moray in "The Case of the Stand-in Sister," three episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as French dress designer Gaston Broussard in 1956, including the over the top "A Paris Creation" and various doctor roles on The Danny Thomas Show. Geray spent some time in the late-1960s in Estes Park, Colorado, where he directed local theater (The Fantasticks). He owned and ran a bar in Estes Park from 1969 to 1970.

On Movies

  • The Swinger
  • Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
  • Wild and Wonderful
  • Count Your Blessings
  • Verboten!
  • A Certain Smile
  • Stagecoach To Fury
  • Attack
  • Artists and Models
  • Kiss of Fire
  • A Bullet for Joey
  • New York Confidential
  • Tobor the Great
  • Knock on Wood
  • Paris Playboys
  • The French Line
  • The Great Diamond Robbery
  • The Royal African Rifles
  • The Golden Blade
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  • The Story of Three Loves
  • Call Me Madam
  • Night Without Sleep
  • The Big Sky
  • O. Henry's Full House
  • Affair in Trinidad
  • Bal Tabarin
  • Lady Possessed
  • Little Egypt
  • Savage Drums
  • The House on Telegraph Hill
  • Target Unknown
  • Pygmy Island
  • Woman on the Run
  • All About Eve
  • A Lady Without Passport
  • The Second Woman
  • In a Lonely Place
  • Harbor of Missing Men
  • Tell It to the Judge
  • Holiday in Havana
  • Once More, My Darling
  • The Lone Wolf and His Lady
  • Sky Liner
  • El Paso
  • Ladies of the Chorus
  • The Dark Past
  • Port Said
  • I Love Trouble
  • The Crime Doctor's Gamble
  • When a Girl's Beautiful
  • Gunfighters
  • The Unfaithful
  • Mr. District Attorney
  • Blind Spot
  • Blondie Knows Best
  • So Dark the Night
  • Gilda
  • Deadline at Dawn
  • Cornered
  • Mexicana
  • The Crimson Canary
  • Spellbound
  • Tarzan and the Amazons
  • Hotel Berlin
  • The Conspirators
  • In Society
  • Resisting Enemy Interrogation
  • The Seventh Cross
  • The Mask of Dimitrios
  • Meet the People
  • Easy Life
  • Whistling in Brooklyn
  • To My Unborn Son
  • Phantom of the Opera
  • Appointment in Berlin
  • Background to Danger
  • Pilot #5
  • Night Plane from Chungking
  • Above Suspicion
  • Heavenly Music
  • Once Upon a Honeymoon
  • The Moon and Sixpence
  • Eyes in the Night
  • For the Common Defense!
  • The Mad Martindales
  • The Wife Takes a Flyer
  • Secret Agent of Japan
  • Castle in the Desert
  • A Gentleman at Heart
  • Blue, White, and Perfect
  • Man at Large
  • Dark Streets of Cairo
  • This Man in Paris
  • Inspector Hornleigh
  • Premiere
  • The High Command
  • Dance Band
  • Spring Shower

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