George Raft
George Raft was born and grew up in a poor family in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. He was born George Ranft, and was the son of Eva (Glockner) and Conrad Ranft, a department store deliveryman. His parents were both of German descent. In his youth, he showed a great interest in, and aptitude for, dancing. That, combined with his dark good looks and sharp dressing, made him a local favorite at such spots as the El Fey Club with Texas Guinan. In 1928, Raft went to Hollywood to try his luck at acting. His first big role was as the coin-tossing henchman in Scarface (1932). His career was marked by numerous tough-guy roles, often a gangster or convict. The believability with which he played these, together with his lifelong associations with such real-life gangsters as Owney Madden and Bugsy Siegel, added to persistent rumors that he was also a gangster. The slightly shady reputation may have helped his popularity early on, but it made him somewhat undesirable to movie executives later in his career. He somewhat parodied his gangster reputation in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959).
George Rainsford
George Rainsford was born in Huddersfield in Yorkshire in 1982, and later attended Repton School in Derbyshire. He joined the National Youth Theatre in 1999 and later became involved with student theatre whilst reading for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama at the University of Manchester. In 2003 he won a Goldman-Sachs Scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). On graduation in 2006 his first professional engagement was as D'Artagnan in the Bristol Old Vic's Christmas production of 'The Three Musketeers'. He is known for his regular performances in, amongst others, "Casualty", "Call The Midwife" and "Waking The Dead", as well as numerous theatre roles (including plays at the Royal Court, RSC and National Theatre).
George Rakito
George Rakito is known for In Isolation (2022).
George Ratliff
George Ratliff was born on October 11, 1968. He is a director and writer, known for Joshua (2007), Welcome Home (2018) and Salvation Boulevard (2011).
George Raveling
George Raveling was born on June 27, 1937. He is known for The Sixth Man (1997), Blue Chips (1994) and Nowitzki: Der perfekte Wurf (2014).
George Rector
George Rector was born in 1878. He is an actor, known for Every Day's a Holiday (1937) and Radio City Matinee (1941).
George Reed
George Reed was born on November 27, 1866 in Macon, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for Huckleberry Finn (1920), The River of Romance (1929) and Going Places (1938). He was married to Julia Ridley. He died on November 6, 1952 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
George Reed
George Reed is known for Summer at Charlotte's (2023) and 54th Grey Cup (1966).
George Reeves
George Reeves was born George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, to Helen Roberta (Lescher) and Donald C. Brewer. He was of German, English, and Scottish descent. Following his parents' divorce and his mother's remarriage to Frank J. Bessolo, Reeves was raised in Pasadena, California, and educated at Pasadena Junior College. He was a skilled amateur boxer and musician. He interned as an actor at the famed Pasadena Playhouse, performed in dozens of plays, and was discovered there by casting director Maxwell Arnow. He was cast as Stuart Tarleton in Gone with the Wind (1939). While shooting the film, he appeared in another play at the Pasadena Playhouse and was seen there and signed by Warner Bros. studios. Over the next ten years he was contracted to Warners, Fox and Paramount. He achieved near-stardom as the male lead in So Proudly We Hail! (1943), but war service interrupted his career, and after he returned it never regained the same level. While in the Army Air Corps he appeared on Broadway in "Winged Victory", then made training films. Career difficulties after the war led him to move to New York for live television. It was television where he achieved the kind of fame that had eluded him in films, as he was cast in the lead of the now-iconic Adventures of Superman (1952). He got a few film roles in the early 1950s, but he was mostly typecast as Superman, and other acting jobs soon dried up. His career had slid to the point where he was considering an attempt at exhibition wrestling when he committed suicide by shooting himself. Controversy still surrounds his death, due mainly to the fact of his longtime affair with Toni Lanier (aka Toni Mannix), the wife of MGM executive E.J. Mannix. Many of Reeves' friends and colleagues didn't believe that he had committed suicide but that his death was related to the Mannix situation. However, no credible evidence has ever been produced to support that contention.
George Regas
Brother of actor Pedro Regas, George was a stage actor in Athens before coming to the U.S. as "Romeo" in a Grecian version of "Romeo and Juliet", which he performed in New York. Regas played character parts in numerous films, many of them uncredited. Regas often played Latinos, Native Americans or Italians.
