Gregory Ratoff
Date of birth: 1897-04-19
Place of birth: Samara, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gregory Ratoff (20 April 1897 — 14 December 1960) was a Russian-born American film director, actor and producer. His most famous role as an actor was as producer Max Fabian who feuds with star Margo Channing (Bette Davis) in All About Eve (1950). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gregory Ratoff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
All About Eve
1950-11-09
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re
Exodus
1960-12-15
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport
The Sun Also Rises
1957-08-23
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920'
Falling in Love
1934-09-04
British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title
I'm No Angel
1933-10-06
The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she
The Moon Is Blue
1953-07-08
Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claimin
Skyscraper Souls
1932-07-16
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his
Remember Last Night?
1935-10-28
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host ha
Under Two Flags
1936-04-30
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. C
What Price Hollywood?
1932-06-24
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film dir
Symphony of Six Million
1932-04-29
A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When
My Daughter Joy
1950-08-21
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of
The Great Profile
1940-08-30
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,
Secrets of the French Police
1932-12-02
When a flower girl is kidnapped by a deranged White Russian, to impersonate the missing Princess Ana
Headline Shooter
1933-07-28
A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.
Café Metropole
1937-04-28
An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.
Sweepings
1933-04-14
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest depart
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
1933-11-02
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night
Sitting Pretty
1933-11-23
Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame
Once More, with Feeling!
1960-02-11
The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with
Seventh Heaven
1937-03-25
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the
Professional Sweetheart
1933-06-09
Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponso
Sing, Baby, Sing
1936-08-21
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed i
King of Burlesque
1936-01-03
Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway
Let's Fall in Love
1933-12-26
A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.
Girl Without a Room
1933-12-08
A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938-03-04
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry
The Girl on The Roof
1953-12-16
A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect
Forbidden Territory
1934-10-19
Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory sea
The Big Gamble
1961-07-25
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remo
Hollywood Handicap
1938-05-28
A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise m
O. Henry's Full House
1952-08-07
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the
The Road to Glory
1936-09-04
The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are kille
Gateway
1938-08-05
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists th
Abdullah's Harem
1955-02-01
Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Eve
George White's Scandals
1934-03-15
Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest e
Under-Cover Man
1932-12-02
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to f
Sabrina
1954-09-01
Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily runni
Here Comes Trouble
1936-02-21
Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette l
Once in a Lifetime
1932-10-02
Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.
Hello, Sweetheart
1935-05-30
A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to i
Top of the Town
1937-04-17
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom
For Sale
1929-11-25
A salesman tries to sell life insurance, hair tonic, and girth reducing exercise equipment and anyth
18 Minutes
1935-04-07
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall s
Under Your Spell
1936-11-06
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bri
Marilyn
1963-04-18
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991-10-28
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O