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Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, 25 December 1899. He died on 14 January 1957, in Los Angeles. In between he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a silver screen legend and the American Film Institute's Greatest Male Star Of All Time.

Wise words: "Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either."



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  • Casablanca
  • Casablanca review by from Reading England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Play it again Sam! 16 December 2004
    ...n one say about this classic amongst classics that has not already been said? Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Paul Henreid (not to forget Claude Rains and Peter Lorre) are th...   Read customer review
  • The Big Sleep
  • The Big Sleep review by from Scotland
    Rated - 5.0 stars Who killed the Chauffeur? 3 January 2004
    ...than a stilletto and a plot with more twists than a lemon rind in a martini. Humphrey Bogart is everyones celluloid personification of Philip Marlow, the original private e...   Read customer review
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • The Maltese Falcon review by from London, England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Golden Age Hollywood 18 January 2004
    ...olence it has great dialogue and nuanced acting instead. The cast, particularly Humphrey Bogart (in one of his first film as a fully fledged idol), Peter Lorre, Elisha Cook Jn...   Read customer review

Humphrey Bogart - filmography


  • The Golden Age Of Comedy (5 discs) on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Groucho Marx,  Humphrey Bogart,  Lucille Ball
    Director: Robert Youngson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Features a collection of comic clips from the 1950s. Includes footage taken from: 'The Jack Benny Show', 'The Bob Hope Chevy Show', The Ed Wynn Show', 'The Camel Comedy Caravan', 'The Colgate Comedy Hour', 'The Phil Silvers Special' and 'The Ernie Kovacs Show'.
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 34 members
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  • The Desperate Hours (1956)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Fredric March,  Martha Scott
    Director: William Wyler
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director William Wyler's suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Frederic March worked together. And the result is everything you'd expect: taut, terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban Everyman who has ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 495 members
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  • The Harder They Fall on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Rod Steiger,  Jan Sterling
    Director: Mark Robson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bud Schulberg's novel is brought to the screen with distinction by Humphrey Bogart in this, his last, role. Eddie Willis (Bogart) is an unemployed sportswriter hired to write about Argentinean boxer Toto Moreno by the boxer's corrupt manager Nick Benko (Rod Steiger). Willis is on the level in the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 455 members
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  • Sabrina on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  William Holden,  Audrey Hepburn
    Director: Billy Wilder
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is the daughter of a Long Island chauffeur, almost a member of the extended family of her father's employer. Linus and David Larrabee are the sons in the wealthy family, and Sabrina has harbored a crush on David (William Holden), the younger and more freewheeling of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 5,029 members
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  • The Caine Mutiny on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Van Johnson,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly minted ensign assigned to the U.S.S. Caine. Keith has an uneasy relationship with his skipper, Lt. Comdr. DeVries (Tom Tully), partly through his own ineptitude and as a result of his disapproval of the slovenly way DeVries seems ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 794 members
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  • The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray (1954)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Van Johnson,  Jose Ferrer
    Director: Edward Dmytryk
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In director Edward Dmytryk's classic seafaring drama, privileged mama's boy Ensign Keith (Robert Francis) gets assigned to the Caine, a rusty old minesweeper with a haggard, undisciplined crew during the latter days of WWII. Soon the paranoid, strawberry-loving Captain Queeg (Humprey Bogart) takes ..read more »
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  • The Barefoot Contessa on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Ava Gardner,  Edmund O'Brien
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In one of the last films before his death in 1957, Humphrey Bogart plays washed-up film director Harry Dawes, who sees another chance at success when he meets Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) and recognizes her star potential. Harry's willingness to let Maria keep her independence, and his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 718 members
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  • Beat the Devil on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Jennifer Jones,  Gina Lollobrigida
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    BEAT THE DEVIL is a whimsical parody of THE MALTESE FALCON and other 1940's detective movies in which Bogart so often starred (and John Huston directed). The film tells of the exploits of a group of travelers on a steamboat, each of whom hope to carry off a huge swindle in the uranium fields of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 572 members
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  • Sirocco on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Marta Toren,  Lee J. Cobb
    Director: Curtis Bernhardt
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bogart produced this action vehicle, in which he stars as Harry Smith, an American gun runner selling weapons to the Arabs in Damascus, circa 1925. As the French and Syrians wage war against each other, Smith is pursued by Feroud (Lee J. Cobb), a French colonel. Smith complicates matters for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 236 members
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  • The African Queen on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Katharine Hepburn,  Robert Morley
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut, saves prim and proper Rose Sayer after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage a German ship. Based on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 8,339 members
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  • In A Lonely Place on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Gloria Grahame,  Frank Lovejoy
    Director: Nicholas Ray
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hatcheck girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect. His record of belligerence when angry and his macabre sense of humor ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,112 members
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  • Tokyo Joe on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Sessue Hayakawa,  Alexander Knox
    Director: Stuart Heisler
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Following World War II, Air Corps hero Joe Barrett (Humphrey Bogart) believes that his wife died in a concentration camp. He starts his own airline and returns to Japan years later, only to discover that she is alive, along with his daughter, and married to a lawyer. His efforts to reconcile, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 45 members
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  • Knock On Any Door on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  John Derek,  George McReady
    Director: Nicholas Ray
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. After he lost his paycheck gambling, hoping to buy his wife some jewellery, she announced she was pregnant, Later he finds her dead from suicide. When he turns ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 49 members
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  • Key Largo on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Edward G. Robinson,  Lauren Bacall
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 3,164 members
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  • Dead Reckoning on DVD (1947)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Elizabeth Scott,  Morris Carnovsky
    Director: John Cromwell
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Humphrey Bogart stars as Rip Murdock, a World War II veteran ensnared in a web of crime and conspiracy when his best friend, Johnny Drake (William Prince), disappears en route to Washington, D.C., to receive a war medal. Murdock follows the trail to Drake's hometown in the Deep South, where he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 670 members
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  • The Big Sleep on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Charles Waldron,  Lauren Bacall
    Director: Howard Hawks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 8,974 members
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  • Casablanca - Blu-ray (1943)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Joy Page,  Leonid Kinskey
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    The classic story of the owner of a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca and of the return of his former lover who is now a member of the Resistance. Based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 629 members
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  • Sahara on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  J. Carrol Naish,  Lloyd Bridges
    Director: Zoltan Korda
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    World War II action classic about the desperate retreat across the Sahara of a tank battallion. When the tank crew captures a desert fortress, they must battle a detachment of Germans in order to keep their water. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best (Black-and-White) Cinematography.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 732 members
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  • Across the Pacific (1942)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Mary Astor,  Sydney Greenstreet
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Bogart plays a U.S. officer of artillery who is court martialled in disgrace (in 1941) and who leaves the country. He gets a job offer in central America with a stop off in Panama. While there he discovers Japanese plot to attack the Panama Canal along with the Pearl Harbor attack.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7 members
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  • Casablanca on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Joy Page,  Leonid Kinskey
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    The classic story of the owner of a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca and of the return of his former lover who is now a member of the Resistance. Based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 31,061 members
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  • The Maltese Falcon on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Mary Astor,  Sidney Greenstreet
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11,870 members
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  • High Sierra (1941)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Ida Lupino,  Alan Curtis
    Director: Raoul Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A gangster called Roy Earle assists in a hotel hold-up in return for being sprung from prison. He then attempts to go straight, but his luck quickly runs out.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 721 members
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  • Marked Woman (1937)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Humphrey Bogart,  Lola Lane
    Director: Lloyd Bacon
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A crusading DA persuades a clip joint "party girl" to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory "parties."
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3 members
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  • San Quentin on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Ann Seridan,  Pat O'Brien
    Director: Lloyd Bacon
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 67 members
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  • The Petrified Forest (1936)
    Starring: Leslie Howard,  Humphrey Bogart
    Director: Archie Mayo
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Leslie Howard plays a perfect gentleman--a lonely intellectual in search of meaning. When he lands in a deserted café, he finds what he's looking for in the form of young Bette Davis, whose character yearns for the artistic climate of gay Paris. But both Howard and Davis are in for a bumpy ride ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 289 members
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  • Call It Murder on DVD (1934)
    Starring: Humphrey Bogart
    Director: Chester Erskine
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Tense film about a jury who are trying a woman for murder. The ultimate decision lies with the foreman of the jury but his casting vote isn't met with press approval and consequently becomes headlines himself.
    2.5 stars out of 5 44% from 110 members
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Humphrey Bogart facts

5 most recent films

Smash His Camera - 3.0 stars
Hollywood - The Fabulous Era - 2.5 stars
The Golden Age Of Comedy - 2.5 stars
The Desperate Hours - 3.5 stars
The Harder They Fall - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Casablanca - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
African Queen - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Angels with Dirty Faces - 4.0 stars
Humphrey Bogart Classics - The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre - 4.0 stars
Casablanca - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray - 3 stars
The Golden Age Of Comedy - 2.5 stars
Hollywood - The Fabulous Era - 2.5 stars
Smash His Camera - 3.0 stars
Racket Busters - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Peter Lorre - 10 times - show films
Sidney Greenstreet - 8 times - show films
Lauren Bacall - 8 times - show films
Ingrid Bergman - 7 times - show films
Marcel Dalio - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Huston - 13 times - show films
Michael Curtiz - 8 times - show films
Robert Youngson - 6 times - show films
Raoul Walsh - 4 times - show films
Howard Hawks - 4 times - show films