Steven Geray
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: November 10, 1904
Day of Death: December 26, 1973 (69 years old)
Place of Birth: Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine
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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Whistling in Brooklyn
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Pilot #5
Actor Reverend Ven Der Lieden
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Heavenly Music
Actor Peter Ravitch (uncredited)
To My Unborn Son
Actor Anton the Woodcarver (Uncredited)
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Actor Ludwig Rader
Background to Danger
Actor Henri Rader (uncredited)
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1942
Actor Café Waiter (uncredited)
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Actor Dr. Retling
Castle in the Desert
Actor Dirk Stroeve
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Actor Mr. Anderson
Eyes in the Night
Actor Alecsandri
Secret Agent of Japan
Actor Vanderhoefen
Blue, White, and Perfect
Actor Gestapo Agent
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Actor Jan Van Der Venne
The Mad Martindales
Actor Don Fernando
A Gentleman at Heart
Actor Heinrich Ort (uncredited)
For the Common Defense!
