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.
Acting (106 movies)
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966
Marie, légende hongroise
1933
Gilda
1946
Blondie Knows Best
1946
Spellbound
1945
A Lady Without Passport
1950
This Man in Paris
1939
Attack
1956
The Golden Blade
1953
A Bullet for Joey
1955
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942
The Conspirators
1944
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
So Dark the Night
1946
Woman on the Run
1950
The House on Telegraph Hill
1951
Cornered
1945
New York Confidential
1955
Castle in the Desert
1942
In Society
1944
The Big Sky
1952
The Dark Past
1948
I Love Trouble
1948
Affair in Trinidad
1952
Phantom of the Opera
1943
The Second Woman
1950
Tobor the Great
1954
Blind Spot
1947
Call Me Madam
1953
In a Lonely Place
1950
The French Line
1954
The Unfaithful
1947
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
The Moon and Sixpence
1942
Eyes in the Night
1942
The Seventh Cross
1944
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
1947
Verboten!
1959
Kiss of Fire
1955
Artists and Models
1955
The Crimson Canary
1945
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
1944
Paris Playboys
1954
Mr. District Attorney
1947
Pilot #5
1943
Inspector Hornleigh
1939
Harbor of Missing Men
1950
Pygmy Island
1950
The High Command
1937
Once More, My Darling
1949
Target Unknown
1951
Sky Liner
1949
Night Plane from Chungking
1943
Port Said
1948
Lady Possessed
1952
Savage Drums
1951
Count Your Blessings
1959
Little Egypt
1951
Heavenly Music
1943
Secret Agent of Japan
1942
The Royal African Rifles
1953
Hotel Berlin
1945
The Story of Three Loves
1953
O. Henry's Full House
1952
Deadline at Dawn
1946
El Paso
1949
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942
Meet the People
1944
All About Eve
1950
Knock on Wood
1954
Mexicana
1945
Dance Band
1935
Holiday in Havana
1949
Spring Shower
1932
Man at Large
1941
The Lone Wolf and His Lady
1949
Gunfighters
1947
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954
Dark Streets of Cairo
1940
Ladies of the Chorus
1948
A Star Fell from Heaven
1936
The Student's Romance
1935
Easy Life
1944
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953
Stagecoach To Fury
1956
Pardon, tévedtem
1933
The Wife Takes a Flyer
1942
Bal Tabarin
1952
To My Unborn Son
1943
Tarzan and the Amazons
1945
The Mad Martindales
1942
A Gentleman at Heart
1942
A Certain Smile
1958
For the Common Defense!
1942
Above Suspicion
1943
Background to Danger
1943
Wild and Wonderful
1964
Tell It to the Judge
1949
Night Without Sleep
1952
Meet Mrs. Swenson
1956
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