Who is Humphrey Bogart?

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born on December 25, 1899 in New York. Not knowing what to do, he first joined United States Navy and then took up small jobs before being appointed as a stage manager. From the beginning of 1920s he began to get minor acting jobs at the Broadway; ultimately getting lead roles in the middle of the decade. The stock exchange crash in 1929 forced him to shift to Hollywood.  In 1934, he got the lead role in the Broadway play ‘Invitation to Murder’. It caught the attention of theatre producer Arthur Hopkins, who cast him in the role of the ruthless killer Duke Mantee in the 1935 play ‘The Petrified Forest’. His performance in the play ‘The Petrified Forest’ caught the attention of Hollywood directors and when in 1936, Warner Brothers decided to make a film on the same novel he was cast in the same role. The film, which earned $500,000 at the box office, made him famous. Over a span of three decades Humphrey Bogart had appeared in around seventy-five movies. Among them, ‘Casablanca’ (1942), ‘To Have and Have Not’ (1944), ‘The Big Sleep’ (1946) ’The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ (1948), ‘In a Lonely Place’ (1950), ‘The African Queen’ (1951), ‘Sabrina’ (1954), and ‘The Caine Mutiny’ (1954) are now regarded as screen classics.

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