Gregory Ratoff

Actor, Director

About

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Birth Place

Russia

Born

April 20, 1897

Died

December 14, 1960

Cause of Death

Leukemia

Biography

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Czarist emigre who worked on Broadway before being typecast as a heavily accented foreigner in Hollywood films from the early 1930s. His best-remembered performance is as the harassed theater producer Max Fabian in "All About Eve" (1950). Ratoff made his directorial debut in 1936 and turned out mostly unexceptional pictures, firstly in Hollywood and then, from the late 1940s, in England....

Filmography

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Oscar Wilde (1960)

Abdullah the Great (1955)

My Daughter Joy (1950)

Black Magic (1949)

That Dangerous Age (1949)

Photos & Videos

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All About Eve (1950) -- (Movie Clip) We Theater Folk

Secrets Of The French Police (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Princess Anastasia

Family & Companions

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Leonie Leontovich

Wife

Actor. Divorced; born 1900; died 1993.

Maria Kostes

Wife

Singer.

Biography

Czarist emigre who worked on Broadway before being typecast as a heavily accented foreigner in Hollywood films from the early 1930s. His best-remembered performance is as the harassed theater producer Max Fabian in "All About Eve" (1950). Ratoff made his directorial debut in 1936 and turned out mostly unexceptional pictures, firstly in Hollywood and then, from the late 1940s, in England. He is best known for "Intermezzo" (1939)--Ingrid Bergman's first English-language film--and "Oscar Wilde" (1960), starring Robert Morley.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Oscar Wilde (1960)

Abdullah the Great (1955)

My Daughter Joy (1950)

Black Magic (1949)

That Dangerous Age (1949)

Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)

Moss Rose (1947)

Do You Love Me (1946)

Paris--Underground (1945)

Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)

Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)

Song of Russia (1944)

Something to Shout About (1943)

The Heat's On (1943)

Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)

Footlight Serenade (1942)

The Men in Her Life (1941)

The Corsican Brothers (1941)

Adam Had Four Sons (1941)

Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb No. 1 (1940)

I Was an Adventuress (1940)

Everything Happens at Night (1939)

Director skating sequences

Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women (1939)

Day-Time Wife (1939)

Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)

Rose of Washington Square (1939)

Barricade (1939)

Intermezzo, a Love Story (1939)

Lancer Spy (1937)

Sins of Man (1936)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Big Gamble (1961)

Once More, With Feeling! (1960)

The Sun Also Rises (1957)

Count Mippipopolous

Abdullah the Great (1955)

The Moon Is Blue (1953)

O. Henry's Full House (1952)

All About Eve (1950)

Something to Shout About (1943)

The Great Profile (1940)

Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Prince Michael Boris Alexis

Top of the Town (1937)

Café Metropole (1937)

Seventh Heaven (1937)

King of Burlesque (1936)

Under Two Flags (1936)

The Road to Glory (1936)

[Sergeant] Bouffiou

Under Your Spell (1936)

Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

Nicky Alexander

Here Comes Trouble (1936)

Remember Last Night? (1935)

This Woman Is Mine (1935)

18 Minutes (1935)

George White's Scandals (1934)

Nicholas Mitwoch

Sweepings (1933)

Headline Shooter (1933)

[Hermie] Gottlieb

Professional Sweetheart (1933)

Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)

I'm No Angel (1933)

Benny Pinkowitz

Let's Fall in Love (1933)

Girl Without a Room (1933)

The General [Grand Duke Sergé Alexovich]

Sitting Pretty (1933)

Once in a Lifetime (1932)

Herman Glogauer

Under-Cover Man (1932)

Secrets of the French Police (1932)

General Hans Moloff

Skyscraper Souls (1932)

Symphony of Six Million (1932)

Meyer ["Lansman" Klauber]

What Price Hollywood? (1932)

Writer (Feature Film)

Café Metropole (1937)

You Can't Have Everything (1937)

Sins of Man (1936)

Contr to Screenplay const

This Woman Is Mine (1935)

The Great Flirtation (1934)

Producer (Feature Film)

Abdullah the Great (1955)

My Daughter Joy (1950)

Black Magic (1949)

That Dangerous Age (1949)

Something to Shout About (1943)

The Heat's On (1943)

The Men in Her Life (1941)

18 Minutes (1935)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983)

Cast (Short)

Hollywood Handicap (1938)

Life Events

Videos

All About Eve (1950) -- (Movie Clip) We Theater Folk At the party hosted by well-lit Margo (Bette Davis), her husband, director Bill (Gary Merrill) and critic Addison (George Sanders) hold court for the plucky Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) and ambitious assistant Eve (Anne Baxter), et al, in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve, 1950.

Secrets Of The French Police (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Princess Anastasia Leon (John Warburton) at a Paris cafe, French detective St. Cyr (Frank Morgan) playing the drunk, observing evil Baron Lonzoi (Lucien Prival) calling master crook General Moloff (Gregory Ratoff), in Secrets Of The French Police, 1932.

What Price Hollywood? (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Beef, Iron And Wine Lowell Sherman (actor turned director, here playing dissolute director "Max Carey") outside the Brown Derby, escorting waitress Mary (Constance Bennett) to his premiere, in George Cukor's What Price Hollywood?, 1932.

Corsican Brothers, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) It Wasn't A Dream Introduction of second brother, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. again, as Mario, in Paris pursuing Isabella (Ruth Warrick), tangling with De Raveneau (Henry Brandon), twin Lucien in Corsica with sympathetic pain, in The Corsican Brothers, 1941.

Corsican Brothers, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Proud And Noble Name Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as both bandit Lucien and citified Mario, surgically separated at birth, meeting with their guardians Lorenzo (J. Carrol Naish) and Dr. Paoli (H.B. Warner) revealing their history, in The Corsican Brothers, 1941, from the Alexandre Dumas story.

Corsican Brothers, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) They Were Born To Be One Dr. Paoli (H.B. Warner) has just separated the Siamese-twin Franchi sons and learned, with the DuPre's (Walter Kingsford, Nana Bryant), from Lorenzo (J. Carrol Naish) that their family has been slaughtered, whereby Lucien (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is introduced, in The Corsican Brothers, 1941.

Black Magic (1949) -- (Movie Clip) His Cunning Gypsy Mind We know from narration (by Berry Kroeger as Alexandre Dumas) that gypsy Balsamo (Orson Welles) is a prodigiously gifted hypnotist, seen here just after he’s been discovered and bailed out of a Vienna jail by the professionally interested Dr. Mesmer (Charles Goldner), in Black Magic, 1949.

Skyscraper Souls -- (Movie Clip) Make Up For Lost Time Opening shot confirms that the tower in our story dwarfs the Empire State Building, gregarious Tom (Norman Foster) meets heroine Lynn (Maureen O'Sullivan) who then joins dressmaker Vinmont (Gregory Ratoff), in Skyscraper Souls, 1932.

O. Henry's Full House (1952) -- (Movie Clip) The Last Leaf From one of the best-known stories in the anthology, Jean Negulesco directing, sisters Susan (Jean Peters) and ailing Joanna (Anne Baxter) struggling to cope, the former then visiting their benevolent painter neighbor Behrman (Gregory Ratoff), in 20th Century-Fox’s O. Henry’s Full House, 1952.

Black Magic (1949) -- (Movie Clip) He Hypnotized Half The World! Producer Edward Small wringing every drop of historical gravitas from his even-then out-of-copyright literary source, Gregory Ratoff directing Berry Kroeger and Raymond Burr as Dumas père and fils, opening Black Magic, 1949, starring Orson Welles.

Black Magic (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Words Within Your Own Soul Now renowned throughout Europe, hypnotist “Cagliostro” (Orson Welles) has just recognized his parents’ murderer (Stephen Bekassy), who needs him to revive catatonic Lorenza (Nancy Guild), in whose flashback we meet handsome Gilbert (Frank Latimore), Gregory Ratoff directing, in Black Magic, 1949.

Black Magic (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Long Live Cagliostro! Gifted gypsy Balsamo (Orson Welles) has just learned that his powers of hypnotism will have great currency in European society, his crew (Akim Tamiroff, Valentina Cortese) enthralled as Berry Kroeger in the voice of Alexandre Dumas narrates his ascendance, in Black Magic, 1949.

I'm No Angel - (Original Trailer) Mae West and Cary Grant star in I'm No Angel (1933) about a carnival dancer who evades the law and invades high society.

Moon is Blue, The - (Original Trailer) Two womanizers (William Holden, David Niven) fall for a woman determined to keep her virginity in The Moon is Blue (1953).

Exodus - (Textless trailer) Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint lead an all-star cast in Otto Preminger's epic about the formation of the modern state of Israel, Exodus (1960).

O. Henry's Full House - (Original Trailer) Five stories reveal O. Henry's gift for the surprise ending with the help of five directors and a host of stars in O. Henry's Full House (1952).

Rose of Washington Square - (Re-issue Trailer) A singer (Alice Faye) struggles to keep her criminal boyfriend (Tyrone Power) from trouble in Rose of Washington Square (1939).

Sun Also Rises, The - (Original Trailer) A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain in The Sun Also Rises (1957).

Song Of Russia - (Original Trailer) An American symphonic conductor (Robert Taylor) trapped in Russia during World War II helps with the resistance.

Companions

Leonie Leontovich

Wife

Actor. Divorced; born 1900; died 1993.

Maria Kostes

Wife

Singer.

Bibliography

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