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
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asArmand
asDr. Fleisher
asKorbell
asPapa Pulaski
asMarek
asHenri
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asPiet
as
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asStation Master
asBela Hovarth
asAlex Rozky
as
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asFrank Chernak
as
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asasPaul Barolle
asM. Brideau
asJerichau
asGolet
asMataafa
asMr. Yen
asFranz Moray
asDoctor
asDalgren
Production
Crew
1995
asDirecting
