Humphrey Bogart

Humphrey Bogart

Born:

December 25, 18991

Born as:

Humphrey Deforest Bogart

Died:

January 14, 1957

John Huston: The trouble with Bogart is, he thinks he's Bogart.

Biography:

He grew up in New York, met with disciplinary problems at school and was expelled.

After his discharge from the Navy, Bogart never took acting lessons, but just started an acting career on the Brooklyn stage in 1921. In 1935 he would act in his last Broadway play The Petrified Forest, a role he would reprise on film in 1936.

In 1930 Humphrey went to Hollywood. His big break came in 1941 with High Sierra and The Maltese falcon. Now Bogey was a big star and he made classics like Casablanca and The African Queen for which he won an academy award2.

The Caine Mutiny was Bogart's last major movie, a film made when he was already seriously ill. He dropped his asking price to get the role of Captain Queeg.


  • Broadway's Like That (1930)
  • Up the River (1930)
  • A Devil with Women (1930)
  • Body and Soul (1931)
  • The bad sister (1931)
  • A Holy Terror (1931)
  • Love Affair (1932)
  • Big city blues (1932)
  • Three on a match (1932)
  • Midnight (1934)
  • The petrified forest (1936)
  • Bullets or ballots (1936)
  • Two Against the World (1936)
  • Isle of Fury (1936)
  • Black legion (1937)
  • The Great O'Malley (1937)
  • Marked woman (1937)
  • Kid Galahad (1937)
  • San Quentin (1937)
  • Dead end (1937)
  • Stand-In (1937)
  • Swing Your Lady (1938)
  • Crime school (1938)
  • Men Are Such Fools (1938)
  • The amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
  • Angels with dirty faces (1938)
  • Dark victory (1939)
  • You can’t get away with murder (1939)
  • The roaring twenties (1939)
  • The Return of Doctor X (1939)
  • The Return of Doctor X (1939)
  • The Return of Doctor X (1939)
  • Invisible stripes (1939)
  • Virginia city (1940)
  • It all came true (1940)
  • Brother Orchid (1940)
  • They drive by night (1940)
  • High Sierra (1941)
  • The Maltese falcon (1941)
  • All through the night (1942)
  • The big shot (1942)
  • Across the Pacific (1942)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
  • Thank your lucky stars (1943)
  • Sahara (1943)
  • Passage to Marseille (1944)
  • To have and have not (1944)
  • Conflict (1945)
  • Two guys from Milwaukee (1946)
  • The big sleep (1946)
  • Dead reckoning (1947)
  • The two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
  • Dark passage (1947)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  • Key Largo (1948)
  • Knock on any door (1949)
  • Chain Lightning (1950)
  • In a lonely place (1950)
  • The enforcer (1951)
  • The African Queen (1951)
  • Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
  • Road to Bali (1952)
  • Battle Circus (1953)
  • Beat the devil (1953)
  • The Caine mutiny (1954)
  • Sabrina (1954)
  • The barefoot contessa (1954)
  • We’re no angels (1955)
  • The desperate hours (1955)
  • The harder they fall (1956)

Academy awards :

1955 Nominated Best Actor for: The Caine Mutiny
1952 Won Oscar Best Actor for: The African Queen
1944 Nominated Best Actor for Casablanca

Bibliography » Books:

Bibliography » Web:

- Friendship in Casablanca
Bogart-tribute - Bogart’s real birthday
Contact Music - Humphrey’s son
High-Def digest -
Home Cinema - Bogart on Blu-ray
IBDB - Bogart on Broadway
Paul Fraser Collectibles - Bogart Memorabilia for sale
Post Gazette - The real Marlowe
Rick’s cafe -
Seeing-stars.com - Bogarts’s handprints