George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today George Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in Howard Hawks' Scarface (1932), William Keighley's Each Dawn I Die (1939), and Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like it Hot, as a dancer in Bolero (1934), a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940), and as himself in the British spy spoof Casino Royale (1967). Raft's real-life association with New York City gangsters gave his screen image in mob films an added realism.