Date of Birth 25 December 1899, New York, New York

Date of Death 14 January 1957, Los Angeles, California, USA. (throat cancer)

Birth Name Humphrey DeForest Bogart

Nickname Bogie

Height 5' 8"

Trade Mark-Typically played smart, playful, courageous, tough, occasionally reckless characters who lived in a corrupt world, anchored by a hidden moral code.

Spouses

Lauren Bacall (21 May 1945 - 14 January 1957) (his death) 2 children

Mayo Methot (21 August 1938 - 10 May 1945) (divorced)

Mary Philips (3 April 1928 - 1937) (divorced)

Helen Menken (20 May 1926 - 18 November 1927) (divorced)

The son of a moderately wealthy Manhattan surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium) and a famed magazine illustrator, Humphrey Bogart was educated at Trinity School, New York City, sent to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in preparation for medical studies at Yale. He was expelled from Phillips and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. From 1920 to 1922, he managed a stage company owned by family friend William A. Brady (the father of actress Alice Brady), performing a variety of tasks at Brady's film studio in New York. After this, he began regular stage performances. Alexander Woollcott described his acting in a 1922 play as "inadequate." In 1930, he got a contract with Fox and his feature film debut in a ten-minute short, Broadway's Like That (1930), co-starring Ruth Etting and Joan Blondell. Fox released him after two years. After five more years of stage and minor film roles, he broke through with The Petrified Forest (1936) from Warner Bros.; he got the part over Edward G. Robinson only after the star, Leslie Howard, threatened Warners that he would quit unless Bogart were given the key role Duke Mantee, which he had played in the Broadway production (which Howard was also in). The film was a major success and led to a long-term contract with Warners. From 1936 to 1940, Bogart appeared in 28 films, usually as a gangster, but twice in Westerns and even a horror film. His landmark year was 1941--- often capitalizing on parts George Raft had stupidly rejected--- with roles in such classics as High Sierra (1941) and then as Sam Spade in one of his most fondly remembered films, The Maltese Falcon (1941). These were followed by Casablanca (1942), The Big Sleep (1946), and Key Largo (1948). Bogart, despite his erratic education was incredibly well-read and he favored the company of writers and intellectuals within his small circle of friends. In 1947, he joined Lauren Bacall and other actors protesting the McCarthyite witch hunts of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He also formed his own production company, and the next year made The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). "Bogey" received the Best Actor Academy Award for The African Queen (1951) and a nomination for Casablanca (1942) and as Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny (1954), a film made when he was already seriously ill. He died in his sleep at his Hollywood home following an operation for throat cancer.