Humphrey Bogart

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Humphrey Bogart
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Humphrey DeForest Bogart (25 Dizember 1899 – 14 Januar 1957)[1][2] wis a American actor[3] an is widely regardit as a American cultural icon.[4][5] In 1999, the American Film Institute rankit Bogart as the greatest male actors in the history o American cinema.

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Efter tryin various jobs, Bogart began actin in 1921 an became a reglar in Broadway productions in the 1920s an 1930s. When the stock mercat crash o 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turnt tae film. His first great success wis as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led tae a period of typecasting as a gangster wi films sic as Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) an B-movies lik The Return of Doctor X (1939).

Bogart's breakthrou as a leadin man came in 1941, wi High Sierra an The Maltese Falcon. The next year, his performance in Casablanca raised him tae the peak o his profeesion an, at the same time, cementit his trademark film persona, that o the haurd-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. ither successes follaeed, includin To Have and Have Not (1944); The Big Sleep (1946); Dark Passage (1947) an Key Largo (1948), wi his wife Lauren Bacall; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); In a Lonely Place (1950); The African Queen (1951), for which he wan his anerly Academy Award; Sabrina (1954); an The Caine Mutiny (1954). His last movie wis The Harder They Fall (1956). Durin a film career o amaist 30 years, he appeared in 75 featur films.

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