Humphrey DeForest Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born on 25th December, 1899 in New York city. His father Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart was a Presbyterian of English and Dutch descent and mother Maud Humphrey was an Episcopalian of English descent. His father was a cardiopulmonary surgeon by profession and mother was a commercial illustrator. Bogart got admission in Delancey School and studied their till fifth grade and then he was enrolled in Trinity School. He went to the Phillips Academy school in Andover, Massachusetts but he was expelled in 1918.

After trying various jobs Bogart began acting in 1921 and became regular actor in Broadway productions in 1920s and 1930s. In 1929 he turned to film. His first success was as-Duke Mantee in "The Petrified Forest" in the year 1936. After that his golden career started with films such as "Angels with Dirty Faces" in 1938, "The Return of Doctor X" in 1939, "To Have and Have Not" in 1944, "The Big Sleep" in 1946, "Dark Passage" in 1947, "Key Largo" in 1948, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" in 1948, "In a Lonely Place" in 1950, "The African Queen" in 1951, "Sabrina" in 1954, "The Caine Mutiny" in 1954 and his last movie "The Harder They Fall" in 1956. He performed in 75 feature films in his film career of 30 years.

He first married with actress Helen Menken on May 20, 1926 at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City. He met her at the Playhouse Theatre in 1922 while playing role in the play "Drifting". They were divorced on November 18, 1927. On April 3, 1928, he married Mary Philips at her mother's apartment in Hartford, Connecticut. On August 21, 1938, Bogart entered into a disastrous third marriage, with actress Mayo Methot. She was friendly woman when sober but paranoid when drunk. Bogart got divorce from Methot in 1945. Finally he married with Bacall and became father at the age of 49 when Bacall gave birth to Stephen Humphrey Bogart on January 6, 1949.

Bogart was a smoker and drinker and developed cancer of the esophagus. Bogart died at the age of 57, on January 14, 1957, after falling into a coma. Bogart was regarded as an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the "greatest male star in the history of American cinema".