Bogart, << BOH gahrt, >> Humphrey (1899-1957), was an American motion-picture actor. His rugged face, flinty voice, and gruff but sensitive attitude made him one of the most popular motion-picture “tough guys.”
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City on Dec. 25, 1899. He made his feature film debut in A Devil with Women (1930). He achieved his first movie fame in The Petrified Forest (1936), where he portrayed gangster Duke Mantee, a part he had played on stage in 1935. He also played gangsters in Dead End (1937), The Roaring Twenties (1939), and High Sierra (1941). The American writer and director John Huston helped give Bogart a new image by casting him as the detective Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941). Bogart went on to star in five more of Huston’s films, including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), and The African Queen (1951). Bogart won an Academy Award for best actor in The African Queen. His most popular performance as a romantic leading man was in Casablanca (1942). Bogart was married to the American actress Lauren Bacall from 1945 until his death. They appeared together in To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo. Bogart’s other important films include Sahara (1943) and Sabrina (1954). Bogart died on Jan. 14, 1957.
