Steven Geray
| Steven Geray | |
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| Born |
Istvàn Gyergyay 10 November 1904 Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine |
| Died |
26 December 1973 (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Years active | 1929-1966 |
| Spouse(s) | Magda Kun |
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).
Biography
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! and 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.
Partial filmography
- Spring Shower (1932)
- Flying Gold (1932)
- The Student's Romance (1935)
- Modern Girls (1937)
- Let's Make a Night of It (1938)
- Lightning Conductor (1938)
- Premiere (1938)
- Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)
- A Gentleman at Heart (1942)
- Secret Agent of Japan (1942)
- Eyes in the Night (1942)
- The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
- Pilot #5 (1943)
- Phantom of the Opera (1943)
- Night Plane from Chungking (1943)
- Appointment in Berlin (1943)
- Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
- Meet the People (1944)
- The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
- The Seventh Cross (1944)
- In Society (1944)
- The Conspirators (1944)
- Hotel Berlin (1945)
- Mexicana (1945)
- Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
- Spellbound (1945)
- Cornered (1945)
- Gilda (1946)
- Deadline at Dawn (1946)
- So Dark the Night (1946)
- Blind Spot (1947)
- The Unfaithful (1947)
- I Love Trouble (1948)
- The Dark Past (1948)
- Ladies of the Chorus (1948)
- Once More, My Darling (1949)
- El Paso (1949)
- In a Lonely Place (1950)
- The Second Woman (1950)
- All About Eve (1950)
- Woman on the Run (1950)
- The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
- Affair in Trinidad (1952)
- Lady Possessed (1952)
- The Big Sky (1952)
- Call Me Madam (1953)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
- The Golden Blade (1953)
- The French Line (1953)
- Paris Playboys (1954)
- Knock on Wood (1954)
- Tobor the Great (1954)
- New York Confidential (1955)
- A Bullet for Joey (1955)
- To Catch a Thief (1955)
- Verboten! (1959)
- Perry Mason (1962) episode "The Case of the Stand-in Sister"
- Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
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