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Gregory Ratoff (20 April 1897 - 14 December 1960) was a Russia
Russia

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n-born American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film director, actor and producer. His most famous role as an actor was as producer Max Fabian who feuds with star Margo Channing (Bette Davis
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
) in All About Eve
All About Eve

All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
 (1950).

Ratoff was born in Samara
Samara, Russia

Samara is list of cities and towns in Russia by population types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia, the Volga Federal District....
, Russia. The Russian Jewish actor first came to the United States in 1922 and returned, passing through Ellis Island in July 1925; on the steerage passenger list of the SS Mauretania he was listed as Gregoire Ratoff; for next of kin he listed his mother, Mme.






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Gregory Ratoff (20 April 1897 - 14 December 1960) was a Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n-born American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film director, actor and producer. His most famous role as an actor was as producer Max Fabian who feuds with star Margo Channing (Bette Davis
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
) in All About Eve
All About Eve

All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
 (1950).

Ratoff was born in Samara
Samara, Russia

Samara is list of cities and towns in Russia by population types of inhabited localities in Russia in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia, the Volga Federal District....
, Russia. The Russian Jewish actor first came to the United States in 1922 and returned, passing through Ellis Island in July 1925; on the steerage passenger list of the SS Mauretania he was listed as Gregoire Ratoff; for next of kin he listed his mother, Mme. Sophie Ratner of Paris. Ratoff is most noted for having directed the pro-Soviet propaganda film Song of Russia
Song of Russia

Song of Russia is an American films of 1944 American war film made and distributed by MGM Studios. The picture was credited as being directed by Gregory Ratoff, though Ratoff collapsed near the end of the five-month production, and was replaced by L?szl? Benedek, who completed principal photography; the credited screenwriters were Paul Ja...
 (1944
1944 in film

The year 1944 in film involved some significant events....
), and for being one of the two producers to have purchased and developed the original rights to the James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 franchise from Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English literature author and journalist. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories....
 in 1955.

He married the actress Eugenie Leontovich
Eugenie Leontovich

Eugenie Leontovich was a Russian-born stage actor with a distinguished career in theatre, film and television. Reportedly, she "was one of the most colourful figures of the 20th-century theatre, a successful actress, producer, playwright and teacher."...
 in 1923. They were divorced in 1949. He died on 14 December 1960 of leukemia in Solothurn
Solothurn

The city of Solothurn is the Capital of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. The city also comprises the only municipalities of Switzerland of the Solothurn of the same name....
, Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
.

Filmography


Director

  • Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde (film)

    Oscar Wilde is a 1960 in film biographical film about Oscar Wilde, made by Vantage Films and released by 20th Century Fox....
     (1960)
  • Abdulla the Great
    Abdulla the Great

    Abdulla the Great, also known as Abdullah's Harem is a 1955 in film comedy film made by Misr Universal Cairo and Sphinx Films and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation....
     (1955)
  • Taxi (1953)
  • My Daughter Joy (1950)
  • Black Magic
    Black magic

    Black magic or dark magic is a form of Magic that draws on assumed malevolent powers. It may be used for dark purposes or malevolent acts that deliberately cause harm in some way....
     (aka Cagliostro) (1949)
  • That Dangerous Age (1949)
  • Moss Rose
    Moss Rose

    Moss Rose is a multi-use stadium in Macclesfield, England. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Macclesfield Town F.C.....
     (1947)
  • Carnival in Costa Rica
    Carnival in Costa Rica

    Carnival in Costa Rica is an American musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff and written by Samuel Hoffenstein, John Larkin, and Elizabeth Reinhardt....
     (1947)
  • Do You Love Me
    Do You Love Me

    "Do You Love Me" is a 1962 hit single recorded by The Contours for Motown Records's Gordy Records label. Written and produced by Motown CEO Berry Gordy, Jr., "Do You Love Me?" was the Contours' only Top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States....
     (1946)
  • Paris Underground
    Paris Underground (film)

    Paris Underground is a 1945 in film film directed by Gregory Ratoff. It starred Constance Bennett and Gracie Fields as an American and an Englishwoman trapped in Paris when Nazi Germany invades in 1940, who rescue British airmen shot down in France and help them escape across the English Channel....
     (1945)
  • Where Do We Go From Here?
    Where Do We Go From Here? (movie)

    Where Do We Go From Here is an original movie musical produced by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1945 starring Fred MacMurray, June Haver, Joan Leslie, Gene Sheldon, Anthony Quinn and Fortunio Bonanova....
     (1945)
  • Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
  • Song of Russia
    Song of Russia

    Song of Russia is an American films of 1944 American war film made and distributed by MGM Studios. The picture was credited as being directed by Gregory Ratoff, though Ratoff collapsed near the end of the five-month production, and was replaced by L?szl? Benedek, who completed principal photography; the credited screenwriters were Paul Ja...
     (1944)
  • The Heat's On (1943)
  • Something to Shout About
    Something to Shout About (film)

    Something to Shout About is a 1943 in film Columbia Pictures musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff. The movie stars Don Ameche and Janet Blair and was nominated for two Academy Award....
     (1943)
  • Footlight Serenade (1942)
  • Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
  • The Men in Her Life
    The Men in Her Life

    The Men in Her Life was a 1941 in film film adaptation of the novel Ballerina by Eleanor Smith. It was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Sound, but lost to That Hamilton Woman....
     (1941)
  • The Corsican Brothers
    The Corsican Brothers (1941 film)

    The Corsican Brothers is a 1941 in film Swashbuckler films starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in a dual role as the title Conjoined twins, separated at birth and raised in completely different circumstances....
     (1941)
  • Adam Had Four Sons
    Adam Had Four Sons

    Adam Had Four Sons is a 1941 drama and romance film, starring Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, and Susan Hayward.Warner Baxter portrays the wealthy, easy-going patriarch of a family that falls on hard times after the death of his wife and a stock market crash that wipes out his wealth....
     (1941)
  • Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
  • I Was an Adventuress (1940)
  • Barricade
    Barricade (1939 film)

    Barricade is a 1939 in film action / comedy film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher, and Keye Luke....
     (1939)
  • Day-Time Wife (1939)
  • Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
  • Hotel for Women (1939)
  • Rose of Washington Square
    Rose of Washington Square

    Rose of Washington Square is a 1939 in film United States dramatic-musical film.Set in 1920s New York City, it focuses on singer Rose Sargent and her turbulent relationship with Confidence trick Barton DeWitt Clinton, whose criminal activities threaten her professional success in the Ziegfeld Follies....
     (1939)
  • Wife, Husband and Friend
    Wife, Husband and Friend

    Wife, Husband and Friend is a 1939 comedy film starring Loretta Young, Warner Baxter and Binnie Barnes in the three title roles.The film, directed by Gregory Ratoff from a script by Nunnally Johnson, tells the story of a contractor and his wife, and how their musical ambitions result in marital tensions and a romantic triangle with a pr...
     (1939)
  • Lancer Spy
    Lancer Spy

    Lancer Spy is a 1937 in film film about an Englishman who impersonates a German officer, receiving fame upon arriving in Germany. A female German spy is instructed to check on him but falls in love with him instead....
     (1937)
  • Sins of Man (1936)


Actor

  • The Big Gamble (1961)
  • Exodus
    Exodus (film)

    Exodus is a 1960 epic film war film made by Alpha and Carlyle Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was produced and directed by Otto Preminger from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo from the 1958 novel, Exodus , by Leon Uris....
     (1960)
  • Once More, with Feeling!
    Once More, with Feeling!

    Once More, with Feeling! is a 1960 in film comedy film made by Columbia Pictures. It was directed and produced by Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Harry Kurnitz, based on his play....
     (1960)
  • The Sun Also Rises
    The Sun Also Rises (1957 film)

    The Sun Also Rises is a 1957 in film film adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises. It starred Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer and Errol Flynn....
     (1957)
  • Abdulla the Great
    Abdulla the Great

    Abdulla the Great, also known as Abdullah's Harem is a 1955 in film comedy film made by Misr Universal Cairo and Sphinx Films and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation....
     (1955)
  • Sabrina
    Sabrina (1954 film)

    Sabrina is a 1954 film directed by Billy Wilder, adapted for the screen by Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, and Ernest Lehman from Taylor's play Sabrina Fair ....
     (1954)
  • Jungfrau auf dem Dach, Die (1953)
  • The Moon Is Blue
    The Moon Is Blue

    The Moon Is Blue is a 1953 comedy film directed by Otto Preminger which tells the story of a young girl who meets an architect in the Empire State Building and quickly turns his life upside down....
     (1953)
  • O. Henry's Full House
    O. Henry's Full House

    O. Henry's Full House is an anthology film made by 20th Century Fox, consisting of five separate stories by O. Henry. The film was produced by Andr? Hakim and directed by five separate directors from five separate screenplays....
     (1952)
  • All About Eve
    All About Eve

    All About Eve is an Cinema of the United States drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr....
     (1950)
  • My Daughter Joy (1950)
  • Something to Shout About
    Something to Shout About (film)

    Something to Shout About is a 1943 in film Columbia Pictures musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff. The movie stars Don Ameche and Janet Blair and was nominated for two Academy Award....
     (1943)
  • The Great Profile (1940)
  • Gateway (1938) .... Prince Ratoff
  • Sally, Irene and Mary
    Sally, Irene and Mary

    Sally, Irene, and Mary is a 1925 in film film starring Constance Bennett, Sally O'Neil, and Joan Crawford. The film takes a behind-the-scenes look at the romantic lives of three choir girls and the way their preferences in men affect their lives....
     (1938)
  • Café Metropole (1937)
  • Top of the Town (1937)
  • Seventh Heaven
    Seventh Heaven (1937 film)

    Seventh Heaven is a 1937 in film remake of the Janet Gaynor/Frank Borzage Seventh Heaven starring Simone Simon and James Stewart in the roles portrayed by Gaynor and Charles Farrell in the Seventh Heaven ....
     (1937)
  • Under Your Spell (1936)
  • Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
  • The Road to Glory (1936)
  • Under Two Flags (1936)
  • Here Comes Trouble
    Here Comes Trouble

    Here Comes Trouble is an album by hard rock band Bad Company with Brian Howe in place of Paul Rodgers as lead vocalist, released in 1992. The title track from this album received some major air play on Classic rock radio, although "How About That" was the biggest single from the album, spending six weeks at the top of the Mainstream Roc...
     (1936)
  • King of Burlesque (1936)
  • Remember Last Night?
    Remember Last Night?

    Remember Last Night? is a 1935 mystery film comedy film directed by James Whale. The film, based on the novel The Hangover Murders, is about the investigation of the murder of one of a group of friends....
     (1935)
  • 18 Minutes (1935)
  • Falling in Love
    Falling in love

    "Falling in love" is a mainly Western world term used to describe the process of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards someone to one of love....
     (1935)
  • Hello, Sweetheart (1935)
  • George White's Scandals
    George White's Scandals

    George White's Scandals were a long-running string of Broadway theatre revues produced by George White that ran from 1919-1939, modelled after the Ziegfeld Follies....
     (1934)
  • Forbidden Territory (1934)
  • Let's Fall in Love (1933)
  • Girl Without a Room
    Girl Without a Room

    Girl Without a Room is a 1933 in film musical comedy film starring Charles Farrell, Charles Ruggles, and Marguerite Churchill. This early light comedy farce set in Paris was written by Claude Binyon, Frank Butler, and Jack Lait, and directed by Ralph Murphy....
     (1933)
  • Sitting Pretty
    Sitting Pretty (1933 film)

    Sitting Pretty is a musical comedy film telling the story of two aspiring, but untalented, songwriters, played by Jack Oakie and Jack Haley....
     (1933)
  • Broadway Through a Keyhole (1933)
  • Headline Shooter (1933)
  • I'm No Angel
    I'm No Angel

    I'm No Angel is Mae West third motion picture. Mae West received sole story and screenplay credit. A young Cary Grant plays the male lead....
     (1933)
  • Professional Sweetheart (1933)
  • Sweepings (1933)
  • Secrets of the French Police (1932)
  • Under-Cover Man (1932)
  • Once in a Lifetime (1932)
  • Skyscraper Souls
    Skyscraper Souls

    Skyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 in film drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skycraper by Faith Baldwin....
     (1932)
  • What Price Hollywood?
    What Price Hollywood?

    What Price Hollywood? is a 1932 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Ben Markson, and Jane Murfin is based on a story by Adela Rogers St....
     (1932)
  • Symphony of Six Million (1932)
  • Dubrowsky, der Räuber Ataman (1921)


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