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Steven Geray

Steven Geray

Actor · Born 1904-11-10 · Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine

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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 "Th…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. All About Eve (1950) — Captain of Waiters
  2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) — Hotel Manager
  3. Spellbound (1945) — Dr. Graff
  4. I Dream of Jeannie (1965) — Armand
  5. In a Lonely Place (1950) — Paul
  6. Gilda (1946) — Uncle Pio
  7. Bonanza (1959) — Alexander Dubois
  8. Phantom of the Opera (1943) — Vereheres
  9. The Time Tunnel (1966) — Perrault
  10. The Outer Limits (1963) — Jerichau
  11. Attack (1956) — Otto
  12. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) — Dalgren
  13. Artists and Models (1955) — Kurt's Associate (uncredited)
  14. Perry Mason (1957) — Korbell
  15. The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) — Dr. Sergado (uncredited)
  16. Woman on the Run (1950) — Dr. Arnold Hohler
  17. The Big Sky (1952) — "Frenchy" Jourdonnais
  18. Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) — Brenner
  19. The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) — Dr. Burkhardt
  20. Adventures of Superman (1952) — Prof. Van Wick
  21. Affair in Trinidad (1952) — Wittol
  22. The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) — Karel Bulic
  23. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) — Café Waiter (uncredited)
  24. The Lucy Show (1962) — Dr. Fleisher
  25. O. Henry's Full House (1952) — Boris Radolf (segment "The Last Leaf") (uncredited)
  26. Cornered (1945) — Señor Tomas Camargo
  27. The Seventh Cross (1944) — Dr. Loewenstein
  28. The Dark Past (1948) — Prof. Fred Linder
  29. Above Suspicion (1943) — Anton the Woodcarver (Uncredited)
  30. The Second Woman (1950) — Balthazar Jones
  31. Eyes in the Night (1942) — Mr. Anderson
  32. Deadline at Dawn (1946) — Edward Honig
  33. So Dark the Night (1946) — Henri Cassin
  34. Knock on Wood (1954) — Dr. Kreuger
  35. Ladies of the Chorus (1948) — Salisbury
  36. Tobor the Great (1954) — The Foreign Spy-Chief
  37. Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966) — Dr. Rudolf Frankenstein
  38. Background to Danger (1943) — Ludwig Rader
  39. A Bullet for Joey (1955) — Raphael Garcia
  40. In Society (1944) — Count Alexis