Steven Geray
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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.
Acting
Movie
All About Eve
as Captain of Waiters
1950
Movie
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
as Hotel Manager
1953
Movie
Spellbound
as Dr. Graff
1945
TV
I Dream of Jeannie
as Armand
1965
Movie
In a Lonely Place
as Paul
1950
Movie
Gilda
as Uncle Pio
1946
Movie
Phantom of the Opera
as Vereheres
1943
TV
The Time Tunnel
as Perrault
1966
TV
The Outer Limits
as Jerichau
1963
Movie
Attack
as Otto
1956
Movie
Artists and Models
as Kurt's Associate (uncredited)
1955
TV
Perry Mason
as Korbell
1957
TV
Perry Mason
as Franz Moray
1957
TV
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Dalgren
1964
Movie
The Evil of Frankenstein
as Dr. Sergado (uncredited)
1964
Movie
Woman on the Run
as Dr. Arnold Hohler
1950
Movie
The Big Sky
as "Frenchy" Jourdonnais
1952
Movie
Tarzan and the Amazons
as Brenner
1945
Movie
The House on Telegraph Hill
as Dr. Burkhardt
1951
TV
Adventures of Superman
as Prof. Van Wick
1952
Movie
Affair in Trinidad
as Wittol
1952
Movie
The Mask of Dimitrios
as Karel Bulic
1944
Movie
Once Upon a Honeymoon
as Café Waiter (uncredited)
1942
TV
The Lucy Show
as Dr. Fleisher
1962
