Humphrey Bogart film reviews

Humphrey Bogart

American actor

Born
25 December 1899
in New York City New York United States

Died
14 January 1957

Born Humphrey DeForest Bogart - American screen actor, best known for The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, The African Queen, Key Largo, The Big Sleep and many others famous films. Almost all his roles made him a true international star. He became widely regarded as a cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema. He was of English, along with Dutch, some French, and remote Belgian (Walloon), ancestry.

Bogart followed his passion for the sea and enlisted in the United States Navy in the spring of 1918. He is recorded as a model sailor who spent most of his months in the Navy after the armistice was signed ferrying troops back from Europe. He was honored in a ceremony at Grauman?s Chinese Theater to record his hand and footprints in cement. On February 8, 1960, he was posthumously given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6322 Hollywood Boulevard.

During his career, Bogart was nominated for several awards including the BAFTA award for best foreign actor in 1952 for The African Queen and three Academy Awards. In 1997, the United States Postal Service honored Bogart with a stamp bearing his image in its "Legends of Hollywood" series as the third figure to be recognized. All four of his wives were actresses. His first beloved wife was actress Lauren Baccall.

Like his friends John Huston and Spencer Tracy, Bogart was a heavy smoker and a heavy drinker, allegedly sustaining two packs of Chesterfields a day. He was an outstanding chess player.

1934-1955	Lux Radio Theatre
	Radio anthology series that had unique approach to the genre - instead of digging up unknown short stories or adapting classics they took up Broadway and Hollywood.

1941	The Maltese Falcon	as Sam Spade
	Detective Sam Spade takes on a simple case of a missing woman, which quickly escalates when his partner is found dead. To make things worse, the client disappears and Spade becomes a prime suspect.

1942	Casablanca	as Rick Blaine
	Cynical owner of nightclub is surprised by visit of a woman he passionately loved, but who left him without explanation. Now he has to make some tough decisions.

1943	Sahara	as Sgt. Joe Gunn
	American M3 tank crew members, stranded in the middle of Sahara desert, find themselves surrounded by German battalion trying to get to the only water supply in the area.

1943	Action in the North Atlantic	as Lt. Joe Rossi
	American merchant navy crew takes part in the large convoy to Murmansk and faces German submarines and planes.

1951	The African Queen	as Charlie Allnut
	The unlike duo of drunkard and sister of catholic missionary are palnning to sink a German ship that terrorizes the area.

1954	The Caine Mutiny	as Captain Queeg
	The new captain on minesweeper USS Caine is obsessed with discipline up to the point when crew begins to doubt his mental stability.

1982	Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid	as Phillip Marlowe (archive footage)
	The movie combines scenes from old movies with scenes filmed today so that together they would form a meaningful whole... although usually different meaning than in the original.