George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1895 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is remembered for his gangster roles in "Scarface" (1932), "Each Dawn I Die" (1939) with James Cagney, and Billy Wilder's comedy "Some Like It Hot" (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon, as a dancer in "Bolero" (1934) with Carole Lombard, and a truck driver in "They Drive by Night" (1940) with Humphrey Bogart.