Steven Geray Movies and Career Information

Steven Geray (November 10, 1904 – December 26, 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 called Uzhgorod, Ukraine). After working in the Hungarian National Theater under the name Istvan Gyergyay, he began appearing in English-speaking films in 1935 and moved to Hollywood in 1941. 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. Steven 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.