EARLY DAYS PRODUCTIONS
Bogart's birthday has been a subject of controversy. It was long believed that his birthday on Christmas Day 1899, was a Warner Bros fiction created to romanticize his background, and that he was really born on January 23, 1899, a date that appears in many references. However, this story is now considered baseless: although no birth certificate has ever been found, his birth notice did appear in a Boston newspaper in early January 1900, which supports the December 1899 date, as do other sources. Humphrey was the oldest of three children. His parents were very formal, busy in their careers, and frequently fought—resulting in little emotion directed at the children. From his father, Bogart inherited a tendency for needling people, a fondness for fishing, a life-long love of sailing, and an attraction to strong-willed women.
1899 - 1957
Stats:
Birth Name:
Humphrey DeForest Bogart
Height: 5' 8"
Hair Color: dark brown
Eye Color: dark brown
Nickname: Bogie
Quote: "The only thing you owe the public is a good performance."
Birth Name:
Humphrey DeForest Bogart
Height: 5' 8"
Hair Color: dark brown
Eye Color: dark brown
Nickname: Bogie
Quote: "The only thing you owe the public is a good performance."
Typical of New York society parents, the Bogarts sent their son to private schools. They hoped he would go on to Yale, but in 1918, Bogart was expelled. Coming up with no other career options, Bogart followed his love for the sea and enlisted in the United States Navy in the spring of 1918. After his naval service, Bogart worked as a shipper and then bond salesman. He joined the Naval Reserve. More importantly, he resumed his friendship with boyhood mate Bill Brady, Jr. whose father had show business connections, and eventually Bogart got an office job working for William A. Brady Sr.'s new company World Films. Bogart was raised to believe acting was beneath a gentleman, but he enjoyed stage acting. He never took acting lessons, but was persistent and worked steadily at his craft. He appeared in at least seventeen Broadway productions between 1922 and 1935.
After the stock market crash of 1929, stage production dropped off sharply, and many of the more photogenic actors headed for Hollywood. Bogart shuttled back and forth between Hollywood and the New York stage from 1930 to 1935, suffering long periods without work. In 1934 the producer Arthur Hopkins sent for Bogart to play escaped killer Duke Mantee in Robert E. Sherwood's new play, The Petrified Forest. Warner Bros. bought the screen rights to The Petrified Forest and tested several Hollywood veterans for the Duke Mantee role, choosing Edward G. Robinson, who had greater star appeal and was due to make a film to fulfill his expensive contract. Bogart cabled news of this to the film's star Leslie Howard. Howard's cabled reply was, “Att: Jack Warner Insist Bogart Play Mantee No Bogart No Deal L.H.”. When Warner Bros. saw that Howard would not budge, they gave in and cast Bogart. Bogart never forgot Howard's favor, and in 1952 he named his only daughter, Leslie, after Howard, who had died in World War II.
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Humphrey Bogart's Selected Filmography
1956 The Harder They Fall
1955 The Desperate Hours
1955 The Left Hand of God
1955 We're No Angels
1954 The Barefoot Contessa
1954 Sabrina
1954 The Caine Mutiny
1953 Beat the Devil
1953 Battle Circus
1952 Road to Bali
1952 Deadline - U.S.A.
1951 The African Queen
1951 Sirocco
1951 The Enforcer
1950 In a Lonely Place
1950 Chain Lightning
1949 Tokyo Joe
1949 Knock on Any Door
1948 Key Largo
1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947 Dark Passage
1947 The Two Mrs. Carrolls
1947 Dead Reckoning
1946 The Big Sleep
1945 Conflict
1944 Hollywood Canteen
1944 To Have and Have Not
1944 Passage to Marseille
1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 Sahara
1943 Action in the North Atlantic
1942 Casablanca
1942 Across the Pacific
1942 The Big Shot
1941 All Through the Night Gloves Donahue
1941 The Maltese Falcon
1941 The Wagons Roll at Night
1941 High Sierra
1940 They Drive by Night
1940 Brother Orchid
1940 It All Came True
1940 Virginia City
1939 Invisible Stripes
1939 The Return of Doctor X
1939 The Roaring Twenties
1939 Dark Victory
1939 You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939 The Oklahoma Kid
1939 King of the Underworld
1938 Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938 Racket Busters
1938 Men Are Such Fools
1938 Crime School
1938 Swing Your Lady
1937 Stand-In
1937 Dead End
1937 San Quentin
1937 Kid Galahad
1937 Marked Woman
1937 The Great O'Malley
1937 Black Legion
1936 Isle of Fury
1936 China Clipper
1936 Two Against the World
1936 Bullets or Ballots
1936 The Petrified Forest
1934 Midnight
1932 Three on a Match
1932 Big City Blues
1932 Love Affair
1931 A Holy Terror
1931 Women of All Nations
1931 The Bad Sister
1931/I Body and Soul
1930 A Devil with Women
1930 Up the River
1930 Broadway's Like That (short)
1928 The Dancing Town (short)
1955 The Desperate Hours
1955 The Left Hand of God
1955 We're No Angels
1954 The Barefoot Contessa
1954 Sabrina
1954 The Caine Mutiny
1953 Beat the Devil
1953 Battle Circus
1952 Road to Bali
1952 Deadline - U.S.A.
1951 The African Queen
1951 Sirocco
1951 The Enforcer
1950 In a Lonely Place
1950 Chain Lightning
1949 Tokyo Joe
1949 Knock on Any Door
1948 Key Largo
1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947 Dark Passage
1947 The Two Mrs. Carrolls
1947 Dead Reckoning
1946 The Big Sleep
1945 Conflict
1944 Hollywood Canteen
1944 To Have and Have Not
1944 Passage to Marseille
1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943 Sahara
1943 Action in the North Atlantic
1942 Casablanca
1942 Across the Pacific
1942 The Big Shot
1941 All Through the Night Gloves Donahue
1941 The Maltese Falcon
1941 The Wagons Roll at Night
1941 High Sierra
1940 They Drive by Night
1940 Brother Orchid
1940 It All Came True
1940 Virginia City
1939 Invisible Stripes
1939 The Return of Doctor X
1939 The Roaring Twenties
1939 Dark Victory
1939 You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939 The Oklahoma Kid
1939 King of the Underworld
1938 Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938 Racket Busters
1938 Men Are Such Fools
1938 Crime School
1938 Swing Your Lady
1937 Stand-In
1937 Dead End
1937 San Quentin
1937 Kid Galahad
1937 Marked Woman
1937 The Great O'Malley
1937 Black Legion
1936 Isle of Fury
1936 China Clipper
1936 Two Against the World
1936 Bullets or Ballots
1936 The Petrified Forest
1934 Midnight
1932 Three on a Match
1932 Big City Blues
1932 Love Affair
1931 A Holy Terror
1931 Women of All Nations
1931 The Bad Sister
1931/I Body and Soul
1930 A Devil with Women
1930 Up the River
1930 Broadway's Like That (short)
1928 The Dancing Town (short)
Early Days Productions: Humphrey Bogart 03/16/2012
Full Movie: The Harder They Fall (1956)
Down-on-his-luck ex-sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by shady fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable phenom from Argentina. - Edited from IMDB
Bogart got his first real romantic lead in 1942's Casablanca, playing Rick Blaine, the hard-pressed ex-pat nightclub owner, hiding from the past and walking the fine line between Nazis, the French underground, the Vichy prefect, and his ex-girlfriend. The on-screen magic of Bogart and Ingrid Bergman was the result of two actors doing their very best work, not any real-life sparks. Casablanca won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Picture. Bogart was nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role, but lost out to Paul Lukas for his performance in Watch on the Rhine.
Bogart met Lauren Bacall while filming To Have and Have Not (1944), a very loose adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel. Their physical and emotional rapport was very strong from the start, and the age difference and different acting experience also created the additional dimension of a mentor-student relationship. Bogart and Bacall married in a small ceremony at the country home of Bogart's close friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield at Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio on May 21, 1945. Lauren Bacall gave birth to Stephen Humphrey Bogart, named after Bogart's character's nickname in To Have and Have Not on January 6, 1949, and a girl named after British actor Leslie Howard on August 23, 1952.
By the mid-1950s, Bogart's health was failing. Bogart, a heavy smoker, contracted cancer of the esophagus. Bogart had just turned 57 and weighed 80 pounds when he died on January 14, 1957 after falling into a coma.
By the mid-1950s, Bogart's health was failing. Bogart, a heavy smoker, contracted cancer of the esophagus. Bogart had just turned 57 and weighed 80 pounds when he died on January 14, 1957 after falling into a coma.
