Steven Geray
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1904-11-10
Place of birth
Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine
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Cast
Marie, légende hongroise
1933
0.00
Gilda
1946
7.50
Blondie Knows Best
1946
6.40
Spellbound
1945
7.40
A Lady Without Passport
1950
5.20
This Man in Paris
1939
0.00
Attack
1956
6.79
The Golden Blade
1953
6.30
A Bullet for Joey
1955
5.60
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942
6.20
The Conspirators
1944
6.00
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
7.00
So Dark the Night
1946
6.10
Woman on the Run
1950
6.74
The House on Telegraph Hill
1951
6.40
Cornered
1945
6.11
New York Confidential
1955
5.89
Castle in the Desert
1942
7.00
In Society
1944
5.80
The Big Sky
1952
6.50
The Dark Past
1948
5.80
I Love Trouble
1948
6.29
Phantom of the Opera
1943
6.20
Affair in Trinidad
1952
6.30
The Second Woman
1950
5.42
Tobor the Great
1954
5.20
Blind Spot
1947
4.60
Call Me Madam
1953
6.20
In a Lonely Place
1950
7.60
The French Line
1954
3.90
The Unfaithful
1947
5.83
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
6.30
The Moon and Sixpence
1942
6.10
Eyes in the Night
1942
5.88
The Seventh Cross
1944
6.70
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
1947
4.70
Verboten!
1959
6.40
Kiss of Fire
1955
3.00
Artists and Models
1955
6.60
The Crimson Canary
1945
6.00
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944
6.60
Paris Playboys
1954
4.00
Mr. District Attorney
1947
6.00
Pilot #5
1943
5.80
Inspector Hornleigh
1939
7.42
Harbor of Missing Men
1950
5.50
Pygmy Island
1950
4.00
The High Command
1937
5.60
Once More, My Darling
1949
5.70
Target Unknown
1951
0.00
Sky Liner
1949
4.20
Night Plane from Chungking
1943
6.00
Port Said
1948
6.00
Lady Possessed
1952
5.10
Savage Drums
1951
6.00
Count Your Blessings
1959
4.20
Little Egypt
1951
0.00
Heavenly Music
1943
6.10
Secret Agent of Japan
1942
4.00
The Royal African Rifles
1953
0.00
Hotel Berlin
1945
5.85
The Story of Three Loves
1953
5.83
O. Henry's Full House
1952
6.72
Deadline at Dawn
1946
6.20
El Paso
1949
5.70
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
6.30
Meet the People
1944
5.40
All About Eve
1950
8.07
Knock on Wood
1954
6.65
Mexicana
1945
5.30
Dance Band
1935
2.00
Holiday in Havana
1949
5.00
Spring Shower
1932
5.60
Man at Large
1941
6.00
The Lone Wolf and His Lady
1949
5.00
Gunfighters
1947
5.60
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954
0.00
Let's Make a Night of It
1937
4.00
Dark Streets of Cairo
1940
6.00
Ladies of the Chorus
1948
6.50
A Star Fell from Heaven
1936
0.00
The Student's Romance
1935
5.00
Easy Life
1944
5.00
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953
7.33
Stagecoach To Fury
1956
5.00
Pardon, tévedtem
1933
0.00
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
4.50
Bal Tabarin
1952
0.00
To My Unborn Son
1943
7.00
Tarzan and the Amazons
1945
6.30
The Mad Martindales
1942
5.00
A Gentleman at Heart
1942
6.00
A Certain Smile
1958
5.80
For the Common Defense!
1942
4.70
Above Suspicion
1943
6.09
Background to Danger
1943
6.60
Wild and Wonderful
1964
6.30
Tell It to the Judge
1949
6.30
Night Without Sleep
1952
5.40
Premiere
1938
5.00
Meet Mrs. Swenson
1956
0.00
Appointment in Berlin
1943
6.70
The Swinger
1966
5.20
Az ellopott szerda
1933
0.00
Return of the Dead
1954
5.00
When a Girl's Beautiful
1947
0.00
The Return of Monte Cristo
1946
6.00
The Evil of Frankenstein
1964
6.11