Steven Geray

Acting

Born Nov 10, 1904

From Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine

Died Dec 26, 1973

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.

Steven Geray

Known For

All About Eve

Gilda

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Spellbound

In a Lonely Place

Tarzan and the Amazons

Phantom of the Opera

O. Henry's Full House

Artists and Models

The Big Sky

Filmography — Acting

All About Eve

Gilda

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Spellbound

In a Lonely Place

Tarzan and the Amazons

Phantom of the Opera

O. Henry's Full House

Artists and Models

The Big Sky

Attack

Eyes in the Night

Ladies of the Chorus

The Evil of Frankenstein

In Society

The Golden Blade

The Story of Three Loves

Cornered

The Swinger

A Bullet for Joey

Woman on the Run

The House on Telegraph Hill

Affair in Trinidad

Little Egypt

Meet the People

The Unfaithful

Gunfighters

The Dark Past

Tobor the Great

Stagecoach To Fury

The Great Diamond Robbery

The Mask of Dimitrios

El Paso

Above Suspicion

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Call Me Madam

Savage Drums

Blue, White and Perfect

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Whistling in Brooklyn

Verboten!

Night Plane from Chungking

New York Confidential

A Lady Without Passport

Background to Danger

I Love Trouble

The Seventh Cross

Man at Large

So Dark the Night

Once More, My Darling

A Gentleman at Heart

Heavenly Music

Sky Liner

Blondie Knows Best

The Moon and Sixpence

Night Without Sleep

The Return of Monte Cristo

The French Line

When a Girl's Beautiful

The Second Woman

Knock on Wood

Hotel Berlin

Tell It to the Judge

Target Unknown

The High Command

The Wife Takes a Flyer

Pilot #5