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Birth Name: Humphrey DeForest Bogart

Nicknames: Bogie, Bogey

Birth Date: December 25, 1899
Birth Place: New York, New York
Death Date: January 14,1957

Death Place: At his home in Holmby Hills, California
Burial Location: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California; ashes kept at the Garden of Memory

Height: 5’8”
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown

Hobbies: golf, sailing, chess
Hollywood Walk of Fame: Star is located at 6322 Hollywood Blvd

Parents: Maude Humphrey and Belmont DeForest Bogart
Siblings: Two younger sisters, Frances and Kay
Married: Helen Menken (m. 1926 – d.1927), Mary Philips (m.1928 – d. 1937), Mayo Methot (m. 1938 – d. 1945), Betty Joan
Perske a.k.a. Lauren Bacall (m.1945 – w.1957 )

Children: (Bacall) Stephen Humphrey and Leslie Howard

Quick Facts: Although he rarely participated in celebrity tournaments, Bogart was one of Hollywood’s better golfers. On many occasions, Bogart enjoyed catching a quick round of golf at Lakeside Golf Club in between filming at the nearby Warner Bros. studios.

-Bogart and Spencer Tracy first met on the set of Up the River, when both were newcomers to the film industry. The two became lifelong friends, and Tracy was one of the few people who was allowed to visit Bogart once he became gravely ill.

-During his marriage to Mayo Methot, Bogart bought a sailboat, which he lightheartedly named Sluggy after his hot-tempered wife.

-Newlyweds Bogart and Betty purchased a home at 2707 Benedict Canyon Road in Beverly Hills, where they accumulated an array of animals. Their pets included 14 chickens, eight ducks and a large dog.

-After marrying Betty, Bogart sold Sluggy and purchased a new 54-foot sailboat. He named the craft Santana.

-Bogart and Bacall’s son, Stephen, was named after Bogart’s character in To Have and Have Not. His daughter, Leslie, was named after friend and The Petrified Forest co-star, Leslie Howard.

-Betty put the gold whistle from To Have and Have Not, their first movie together, with Bogart when he was cremated.

-In 1999, the American Film Institute named Humphrey Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time.

Short Biography

The son of a Manhattan surgeon and a magazine illustrator, Humphrey Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and sent to Phillips Academy in Andover in preparation for medical studies at Yale. He was expelled from Phillips and joined the U.S. Navy. While serving, he was wounded in the shelling of the Leviathan; the resulting partial paralysis caused his signature snarl and lisp.

From 1920 to 1922, he managed a stage company owned by family friend William S. Brady, performing a variety of tasks at Brady’s film studio in New York. After this, he began regular stage performances. Alexander Woollcott described his acting in a 1922 play as “inadequate”.

In 1930, he got a contract with Fox and his feature film debut in a 10 minute short Broadway’s Like That (1930), co-starring Ruth Etting and Joan Blondell. Fox released him after two years. After five more years of stage and minor film roles, he broke through with The Petrified Forest (1936); he got the part over Edward G. Robinson, only after the star, Leslie Howard, threatened to quit unless accompanied by his fellow actor from the Broadway production. The movie led to a long-term contract with Warners.

From 1936 to 1940, he appeared in 28 films, usually as a gangster, twice in Westerns. 1941 was his landmark year, first in High Sierra (1941) and then as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941). These were followed by Casablanca (1942), 0038355 and Key Largo (1948).

In 1947, he joined Lauren Bacall and others protesting the witch hunts of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He also formed his own production company and the next year made The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). “Bogey” received the Best Actor Academy Award for The African Queen (1951) and nomination for Casablanca (1942) and as Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny (1954), a film made when he was already seriously ill.

He died in his sleep at his Hollywood home following an operation for throat cancer.

From: http://www.humphreybogart.com