Steven Geray
Acting
Born 1904-11-10
Died 1973-12-26
Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine
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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.
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Acting
48 credits
Perry Mason
Bonanza
The Lucy Show
Dr. Kildare
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
I Dream of Jeannie
Burke's Law
Four Star Playhouse
The Outer Limits
Adventures of Superman
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The Time Tunnel
Adventures in Paradise
The Danny Thomas Show
The Rogues
Alcoa Theatre
Cavalcade of America
All About Eve
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Islanders
Spellbound
Flying Gold
In a Lonely Place
Gilda
Phantom of the Opera
Spring Shower
Tokajerglut
The Big Sky
Dr. Fu Manchu
O. Henry's Full House
Affair in Trinidad
Artists and Models
Tarzan and the Amazons
Attack
The Mask of Dimitrios
I Love Trouble
General Electric Theater
Ladies of the Chorus
Tell It to the Judge
Eyes in the Night
Verboten!
The Evil of Frankenstein
Gunfighters
Above Suspicion
The Dark Past
Once Upon a Honeymoon
The House on Telegraph Hill
The Story of Three Loves
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The Donna Reed Show
Matinee Theater
Climax!
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Telephone Time
Tales of Tomorrow
December Bride
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
87th Precinct
Dangerous Assignment
Mr. & Mrs. North
The Lone Wolf
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