Steven Geray

Steven Geray, born Istvan Gyergyay on November 10, 1904 and died aged 69 on December 26, 1973 in Los Angeles, California. He 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 called 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.

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.

Steven 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.

Selected filmography

• Let's Make a Night of It (1938)
• Lightning Conductor (1938)
• Premiere (1938)
• Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)
• 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)
• 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)
• Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Cornered (1945)
• Gilda (1946)
• Deadline at Dawn (1946)
• So Dark the Night (1946)
• The Unfaithful (1947)
• I Love Trouble (1948)
• The Dark Past (1948)
• Ladies of the Chorus (1948)
• Once More, My Darling (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)
• 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)

References

• Film Star who's Who on the Screen 1938.

External links

• Steven Geray at the Internet Movie Database