Humphrey Bogart
Acting
Born 1899-12-25
Died 1957-01-14
New York City, New York, USA
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Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. His performances in Classical Hollywood films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.
Bogart began acting in Broadway shows, beginning his career in motion pictures with Up the River (1930) for Fox and appeared in supporting roles for the next decade, regularly portraying gangsters. He was praised for his work as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), but remained cast secondary to other actors at Warner Bros. who received leading roles. Bogart also received positive reviews for his performance as gangster Hugh "Baby Face" Martin, in Dead End (1937), directed by William Wyler.
His breakthrough from supporting roles to stardom was set in motion with High Sierra (1941) and catapulted in The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered one of the first great noir films. Bogart's private detectives, Sam Spade (in The Maltese Falcon) and Philip Marlowe (in 1946's The Big Sleep), became the models for detectives in other noir films. His most significant romantic lead role was with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942), which earned him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. 44-year-old Bogart and 19-year-old Lauren Bacall fell in love during filming of To Have and Have Not (1944). In 1945, a few months after principal photography for The Big Sleep, their second film together, he divorced his third wife and married Bacall. After their marriage, they played each other's love interest in the mystery thrillers Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948).
Bogart's performances in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and In a Lonely Place (1950) are now considered among his best, although they were not recognized as such when the films were released. He reprised those unsettled, unstable characters as a World War II naval-vessel commander in The Caine Mutiny (1954), which was a critical and commercial hit and earned him another Best Actor nomination. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a cantankerous river steam launch skipper opposite Katharine Hepburn's missionary in the World War I African adventure The African Queen (1951). Other significant roles in his later years included The Barefoot Contessa (1954) with Ava Gardner and his on-screen competition with William Holden for Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954). A heavy smoker and drinker, Bogart died from esophageal cancer in January 1957.
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Tales from the Crypt
The Oscars
The Jack Benny Program
Casablanca
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Harder They Fall
The Big Sleep
Sabrina
The Maltese Falcon
The African Queen
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Key Largo
Hollywood Victory Caravan
Dark Passage
Angels with Dirty Faces
We're No Angels
The Caine Mutiny
The Barefoot Contessa
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
To Have and Have Not
In a Lonely Place
High Sierra
Beat the Devil
Sahara
Dead Reckoning
Sirocco
Knock on Any Door
The Desperate Hours
Deadline - U.S.A.
Chain Lightning
The Roaring Twenties
Marked Woman
The Enforcer
Dead End
Dark Victory
Breakdowns of 1942
Classic Movie Bloopers: Uncensored
Midnight
Kid Galahad
Action in the North Atlantic
The Bad Sister
Passage to Marseille
Conflict
Breakdowns of 1941
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Left Hand of God
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Tokyo Joe
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
All Through the Night
The Oklahoma Kid
Invisible Stripes
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
The Return of Doctor X
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Rat Pack
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
It's Showtime
The Petrified Forest
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