Steven Geray

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Steven Geray (November 10, 1904 – December 26, 1973) was a film actor who appeared in over 100 films and dozens of television programs. Geray appeared in The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), Spellbound (1945), Deadline at Dawn (1946), In a Lonely Place (1950), All About Eve (1950) and To Catch a Thief (1955). He had a prominent role in the film Gilda.

He was born in Ungvár, Austria-Hungary (now called Uzhgorod, Ukraine). After working on the Hungarian National Theater, he began appearing in English-speaking films in 1935 and moved to Hollywood in 1941. He continued to work on television and films into the 1960s.

Steven 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 1969-1970.