Humphrey Bogart Jack Warner. While Bogart rarely performed on television, he and Bacall appeared on Edward R. Murrow's "Person to Person" in which they disagreed in answering every question. Bogart was also featured on "The Jack Benny Show". The surviving kinescope of the live telecast captures him in his only TV sketch comedy outing. Bogart and Bacall worked together on an early color telecast in 1955, an NBC adaptation of "The Petrified Forest" for "Producers' Showcase", with Bogart receiving top billing and Henry Fonda playing Leslie Howard's role; a black and white kinescope of the live telecast has also survived. Bogart performed
Humphrey Bogart trouble with the studios. Bogart once said: "High Sierra", a 1941 film directed by Raoul Walsh, had a screenplay written by Bogart's friend and drinking partner, John Huston, adapted from the novel by W. R. Burnett (writer of the novel "Little Caesar" was based upon). Both Paul Muni and George Raft turned down the lead role, giving Bogart the opportunity to play a character of some depth, although legendary director Walsh initially fought the casting of supporting player Bogart as a leading man, much preferring Raft for the part. The film was Bogart's last major film playing a gangster (only