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Steven Geray

1904 - 1973

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Steven Geray (born István Gyergyai, 10 November 1904 – 26 December 1973) was a Hungarian-born American film actor who appeared in over 100 films and dozens of television programs. Geray appeared in numerous famed A-pictures, including Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and To Catch a Thief (1955), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve (1950), and Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). However, it was in film noir that be became a fixture, being cast in over a dozen pictures in the genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steven Geray has received more than 190,148 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Steven Geray is the 6,832nd most popular actor (up from 7,791st in 2019), the 936th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 831st in 2019) and the 41st most popular Ukrainian Actor.

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  • 18

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  • 2.73

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  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Steven Geray ranks 6,832 out of 13,578. Before him are Jaleel White, Ozan Güven, Orlando Jones, Kat Graham, Mircea Diaconu, and Maria Canals-Barrera. After him are Dave Sheridan, Aleksei Guskov, Tony Cox, Jun Fukuyama, David Hyde Pierce, and Junior Durkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Steven Geray ranks 322. Before him are Clemente Yerovi, Louise Lorraine, Virgilio Levratto, Domingo García, George Brent, and Alfredo Sánchez. After him are Estanislau de Figueiredo Pamplona, Blind Boy Fuller, James Gentle, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Lino Nessi, and Elissa Landi. Among people deceased in 1973, Steven Geray ranks 269. Before him are Hans Haas, Manuel Rojas, Henrique da Silveira, James Wilson, J. Carrol Naish, and Crane Wilbur. After him are Estanislau de Figueiredo Pamplona, Alphonse Lacroix, Armando Segato, Nellie Sengupta, James Anderson, and Yulia Ryabchinskaya.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Steven Geray ranks 936 out of 1,365. Before him are Oleh Lyashko (1972), Viktor Zvyahintsev (1950), Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913), Dimitrij Ovtcharov (1988), Andriy Sadovyi (1968), and Yuliia Paievska (1968). After him are Oleksiy Honcharuk (1984), Boris Sagal (1923), Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (1963), Mikhail Tolstykh (1980), Mike Mazurki (1907), and Alexander Almetov (1940).

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Among ACTORS In Ukraine

Among actors born in Ukraine, Steven Geray ranks 41. Before him are Sergei Garmash (1958), Boris Chirkov (1901), Aleksei Dikiy (1889), Elena Yakovleva (1961), Alla Tarasova (1898), and Sidney Fox (1907). After him are Mike Mazurki (1907), Pavel Morozenko (1939), Natasha Yarovenko (1979), Gosha Kutsenko (1967), Oksana Shvets (1955), and Olesia Zhurakivska (1973).

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Television and Movie Roles

Spellbound
Dr. Graff
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Nov 8o 19457.406 / 10
Gilda
Uncle Pio
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Apr 25o 19467.5 / 10
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Hotel Manager
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Jul 14o 19537.323 / 10