profile image

Steven Geray

Nov 10, 1904 - Dec 26, 1973 (69 years old) in Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Known For

poster
Perry Mason
Korbell
poster
The Danny Thomas Show
Doctor
poster
The Lucy Show
Dr. Fleisher
poster
Burke's Law
Dr. Alexis Crystal
poster
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Alex Rozky
poster
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Dalgren
poster
Four Star Playhouse
Mataafa
poster
Climax!
poster
I Dream of Jeannie
Armand
poster
Matinee Theater

Credits

Images

image
image