Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), American motion-picture actor, who achieved great success in gangster and tough-guy roles. Born in New York City, Humphrey DeForest Bogart began his acting career performing on the New York stage, including appearances in Meet the Wife (1923), Cradle Snatchers (1925), and Saturday’s Children (1928). His first notable success in film was in The Petrified Forest (1936), in which he portrayed the gangster Duke Mantee, a role he had created two years earlier on Broadway. Bogart appeared in more than 50 films, including Dead End (1937), Dark Victory (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), High Sierra (1941), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), Sabrina (1954), Beat the Devil (1954), The Caine Mutiny (1954), and The Desperate Hours (1955). He won an Academy Award in 1951 for his role as the raffish riverboat captain in The African Queen (1951).