Steven Geray

Birthday

1904-11-10

Place of Birth

Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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The French Line

The French Line

1954 5.1
The French Line

as François, Ship Steward

1954
Tobor the Great

Tobor the Great

1954 5.2
Tobor the Great

as The Foreign Spy-Chief

1954
Call Me Madam

Call Me Madam

1953 6.7
Call Me Madam

as Prime Minister Sebastian

1953
The Big Sky

The Big Sky

1952 6.9
The Big Sky

as "Frenchy" Jourdonnais

1952
Bal Tabarin

Bal Tabarin

1952 6.3
Bal Tabarin

as Inspector Manet

1952
The Dark Past

The Dark Past

1948 6.3
The Dark Past

as Prof. Fred Linder

1948
Gunfighters

Gunfighters

1947 6.3
Gunfighters

as Jose aka Uncle Joe

1947
Blind Spot

Blind Spot

1947 6.6
Blind Spot

as Lloyd Harrison

1947
Cornered

Cornered

1945 6.6
Cornered

as Señor Tomas Camargo

1945