After years on the New York stage, Bogart got his break in film playing a gangster in The Petrified Forest (1936). Cast mostly as a thug, Bogart finally landed the role of private detective Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941). The following year, he starred in Casablanca, for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination.
His string of films with Lauren Bacall began with To Have and Have Not (1944), followed by The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948). Bogart won his only Oscar for The African Queen (1951) and was nominated again in 1954 for The Caine Mutiny. He died of throat cancer a year after his final film, The Harder They Fall (1956).
CasablancaIn this Oscar-winning classic, American expat Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) plays host to gamblers, thieves and refugees at his Moroccan nightclub during World War II ... but he never expected Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) - the woman who broke his heart -- to walk through that door. Ilsa hopes that with... Read More
The Maltese FalconHumphrey Bogart stars as private eye Sam Spade in this Oscar-nominated noir classic that finds the sultry Miss Wonderly (Mary Astor) seeking out protection from a man named Thursby. Spade's partner (Jerome Cowan) takes the case -- but he winds up dead, along with Thursby. Spade's subsequent hunt for... Read More
The Treasure of the Sierra MadreWrapped in a classic tale of adventure, this Academy Award winner helmed by John Huston follows a trio of gold prospectors who set out to strike it rich and agree to split the take … until paranoia and greed consumes one of them. Delivering superb performances as the three miners are Humphrey... Read More
The Big SleepA dangerous blackmailer has targeted the Sternwoods, a wealthy family once tucked away in the safety of their Los Angeles mansion. But while private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) works on the case, he ends up falling for the clan's fiery daughter (Lauren Bacall). Crackling dialogue and the... Read More
The African QueenCharlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), the booze-guzzling, rough-hewn captain of a broken-down East African riverboat, teams with a straitlaced, iron-willed missionary (Katharine Hepburn) to take on a menacing German gunboat during World War I. Read More
