Humphrey Bogart "Dark Passage" (1947) and "Key Largo" (1948). His other significant films included "The African Queen", "The Caine Mutiny", "Sabrina" and "The Barefoot Contessa". Bogart won the Academy Award for Best Actor for "The African Queen", and was nominated for "Casablanca" and "The Caine Mutiny". Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Belmont DeForest Bogart (1867–1934) and Maud Humphrey (1868–1940). Belmont was the only child of the unhappy marriage of Adam Watkins Bogart, a Canandaigua, New York innkeeper, and his wife, Julia, a wealthy heiress. The name "Bogart" derives from the Dutch surname
Humphrey Bogart weekends a year on the water, with a particular fondness for sailing around Catalina Island. He once said, "An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be." He also joined the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve offering the use of his own yacht, Santana, for Coast Guard use. It was rumored Bogart attempted to enlist but was turned down because of his age. The suspenseful "Dark Passage" (1947) was Bogart and Bacall's next pairing. Its first third is shot subjectively, that is from the point-of-view of