Bogart, Humphrey DeForest

Bogart, Humphrey DeForest (1899-1957), American film actor, born in New York, who achieved outstanding success in gangster and tough-guy roles. Bogart began his acting career on the New York stage, on which his appearances included Meet the Wife (1923), Cradle Snatchers (1925), and Saturday's Children (1928). His first notable success in films was in The Petrified Forest (1936), in which he portrayed the gangster Duke Mantee, a role he had created two years earlier on Broadway. Other films of the 1930s include Up the River (1930), Bullets or Ballots (1936), San Quentin (1937), and Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). In all, Bogart appeared in more than 50 films; later examples include The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Desperate Hours (1955), and The Caine Mutiny (1954). He won an Academy Award for his role as the jungle tramp in The African Queen (1951)