Bogart, Humphrey (DeForest)

US film actor. He became an international cult figure through roles as a tough, romantic loner in such films as High Sierra (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), and In a Lonely Place (1950). He won an Academy Award for his role in The African Queen (1952).

After a short stage career, Bogart spent much of the 1930s playing secondary roles to the likes of James Cagney and George Raft. He achieved fame as a gangster in The Petrified Forest (1936). Bogart's other films include Dead Reckoning (1947), The Dark Passage (1947), Key Largo (1948), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Enforcer (1951), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Beat the Devil (1954), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Sabrina (1954), and The Harder They Fall (1956). He was married to Lauren Bacall, his frequent co-star, from 1945 until his death.