Steven Geray
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.
Filmography (141 Appearances)
The Swinger
The Time Tunnel
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
I Dream of Jeannie
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The Rogues
Wild and Wonderful
The Evil of Frankenstein
Burke's Law
The Outer Limits
The Lucy Show
Dr. Kildare
87th Precinct
The Islanders
Adventures in Paradise
Count Your Blessings
Verboten!
The Donna Reed Show
A Certain Smile
Alcoa Theatre
Perry Mason
Stagecoach To Fury
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Attack
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Dr. Fu Manchu
Telephone Time
Meet Mrs. Swenson
Artists and Models
Matinee Theater
Kiss of Fire
A Bullet for Joey
New York Confidential
Climax!
December Bride
Return of the Dead
Tobor the Great
The Lone Wolf
Knock on Wood
Paris Playboys
The French Line
The Great Diamond Robbery
The Royal African Rifles
The Danny Thomas Show
The Golden Blade
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Story of Three Loves
Call Me Madam
General Electric Theater
Mr. & Mrs. North
Cavalcade of America
Night Without Sleep
Four Star Playhouse
Adventures of Superman
The Big Sky
O. Henry's Full House
Affair in Trinidad
Bal Tabarin
Lady Possessed
Dangerous Assignment
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Little Egypt
Tales of Tomorrow
Savage Drums
The House on Telegraph Hill
Target Unknown
Pygmy Island
Woman on the Run
All About Eve
A Lady Without Passport
The Second Woman
In a Lonely Place
Harbor of Missing Men
Tell It to the Judge
Holiday in Havana
Once More, My Darling
The Lone Wolf and His Lady
Sky Liner
El Paso
Ladies of the Chorus
The Dark Past
Port Said
I Love Trouble
The Crime Doctor's Gamble
When a Girl's Beautiful
Gunfighters
The Unfaithful
Mr. District Attorney
Blind Spot
The Return of Monte Cristo
Blondie Knows Best
So Dark the Night
Gilda
Deadline at Dawn
Cornered
Mexicana
The Crimson Canary
Spellbound
Tarzan and the Amazons
Hotel Berlin
The Conspirators
In Society
Resisting Enemy Interrogation
The Seventh Cross
The Mask of Dimitrios
Meet the People
Easy Life
Whistling in Brooklyn
To My Unborn Son
Phantom of the Opera
Appointment in Berlin
Background to Danger
Pilot #5
Night Plane from Chungking
Above Suspicion
Heavenly Music
Once Upon a Honeymoon
The Moon and Sixpence
Eyes in the Night
For the Common Defense!
The Mad Martindales
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Secret Agent of Japan
Castle in the Desert
A Gentleman at Heart
Blue, White and Perfect
Man at Large
Dark Streets of Cairo
This Man in Paris
Inspector Hornleigh
Premiere
The High Command
Let's Make a Night of It
A Star Fell from Heaven
Dance Band
The Student's Romance
Az ellopott szerda
Pardon, tévedtem
Marie, légende hongroise
Flying Gold
Spring Shower