Bogart, Humphrey (DeForest) (1899-1957)

US actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, in a picture from the 1940s. Bogart and Bacall, who were married from 1945 until Bogart's death in 1957, co-starred in a number of films, including To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948).

US film actor. He became an international cult figure through roles as a tough, romantic loner in such films as High Sierra (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and In a Lonely Place (1950). He won an Academy Award for his role in The African Queen (1952).

After a short stage career, Bogart spent much of the 1930s playing secondary roles to the likes of James Cagney and George Raft. He achieved fame as a gangster in The Petrified Forest (1936). Bogart's other films include Dead Reckoning (1947), The Dark Passage (1947), Key Largo (1948), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Enforcer (1951), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Beat the Devil (1954), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Sabrina (1954), and The Harder They Fall (1956). He was married to Lauren Bacall, his frequent co-star, from 1945 until his death.

Bogart served in the US Navy during World War I, during which time he received an injury to his mouth that partially paralysed his upper lip. His first stage roles were often as rich playboys, in contrast to his later roles as detached cynics. He was named the top male film star of the 20th century by the American Film Institute in 1999.