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.
Known For
Acting

1966
asDr. Rudolf Frankenstein

1933
asl'intendant

1946
asUncle Pio

1946
asDr. Schmidt

1945
asDr. Graff

1950
asFrenchman, Palinov's Tout

1939
asSûreté Police Officer (uncredited)

1956
asOtto

1953
asBarcus

1955
asRaphael Garcia

1942
asCafé Waiter (uncredited)

1944
asDr. Schmitt

1944
asKarel Bulic

1946
asHenri Cassin

1950
asDr. Arnold Hohler

1951
asDr. Burkhardt

1945
asSeñor Tomas Camargo

1955
asMorris Franklin

1942
asDr. Retling

1944
asCount Alexis

1952
as"Frenchy" Jourdonnais

1948
asProf. Fred Linder

1948
asKeller

1943
asVereheres

1952
asWittol

1950
asBalthazar Jones

1954
asThe Foreign Spy-Chief

1947
asLloyd Harrison

1953
asPrime Minister Sebastian

1950
asPaul

1954
asFrançois, Ship Steward

1947
asMartin Barrow

1943
asWhitey

1942
asDirk Stroeve

1942
asMr. Anderson

1944
asDr. Loewenstein

1947
asJules Daudet

1959
asle maire

1955
asShip Captain Bellon

1955
asKurt's Associate (uncredited)

1945
asVic Miller

1944
asDr. Victor Münz - Camp Doctor

1954
asDr. Gaspard

1947
asBerotti

1943
asMajor Eichel

1939
asMichael Kavanos

1950
asCaptain Corcoris

1950
asLeon Marko

1937
asMartin Cloam

1949
asKalzac

1951
asJean

1949
asBokejian

1943
asReverend Ven Der Lieden

1948
asAlexis Tacca

1952
asDr. Stepanek

1951
as
1959
asGuide

1951
asPasha

1943
asLudwig van Beethoven

1942
asAlecsandri

1953
asVan Stede

1945
asKleibert

1953
asLegay

1952
asBoris Radolf (segment "The Last Leaf") (uncredited)

1946
asEdward Honig

1949
asMexican Joe

1942
asVanderhoefen

1944
asUncle Felix

1950
asCaptain of Waiters

1954
asDoctor Kreuger

1945
asLaredo

1935
asSteve Sarel

1949
asLopez

1932
asIntendant

1941
asKarl Botany

1949
asMynher Van Groot

1947
asJose aka Uncle Joe

1954
asVan Goosen

1937
asLuigi

1940
asBellboy

1948
asSalisbury

1936
asWilli Wass

1935
asMickey

1944
asBatt

1953
asHotel Manager

1956
asNichols

1933
as
1942
asGestapo Agent

1952
asInspector Manet

1943
asPeter Ravitch (uncredited)

1945
asBrenner

1942
asJan Van Der Venne

1942
asDon Fernando

1958
asDenis

1942
asHeinrich Ort (uncredited)

1943
asAnton the Woodcarver (Uncredited)

1943
asLudwig Rader

1964
asBartender

1949
asFrancois, the Headwaiter (uncredited)

1952
asGeorge (Uncredited)

1938
asFrolich

1956
asDr. Arons

1943
asHenri Rader (uncredited)

1966
asMan with Fish

1933
asTamás István rádióriporter

1954
asGeorge Benet

1947
asStacy Dorn
asPerrault
asDr. Alexis Crystal
as
asArmand
asDr. Fleisher
asKorbell
asPapa Pulaski
asMarek
asHenri
as
as
as
as
asPiet
as
as
as
asStation Master
asBela Hovarth
asAlex Rozky
as
as
asFrank Chernak
as
as
as
as
asPaul Barolle
asM. Brideau
asJerichau
asGolet
asMataafa
asMr. Yen
asFranz Moray
asDoctor
asDalgren
Production
Crew

1995
asDirecting