He's the gift that has kept on giving to audiences and movie lovers for the last 81 years, since his first major appearance in 1936's The Petrified Forest. Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born on Christmas Day, 1899. Making himself into an actor by sheer hard work, Bogey would end up becoming the most iconic movie star of them all. Starting off playing gangster parts, it was in Casablanca that he transformed into the unlikeliest romantic hero, the suave and cynical Rick who proved to be a rank sentimentalist after all, just as Louis accused him of being. Bogey could fit into whatever role he was called to play, whether it was the hard-boiled detective, or the amiable drunk Charley Alnutt, or the paranoid Phillip Francis Queeg. Bogey made us believe in them all.
"I've been around a long time. Maybe the people like me."
—Humphrey Bogart
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