Humphrey DeForest Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York on 25-12-1899. His mother Maud Humphrey was a famous magazine illustrator and suffragette and his father 
Belmont DeForest Bogart was a reasonably prosperous surgeon. He was educated at Trinity School, NYC and later was sent to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in training for medical studies at Yale. He was disqualified from Phillips thereafter he joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. He supervised a stage company owned by his family friend William A. Brady (father of actress Alice Brady) from 1920 to 1922 and performed a variety of responsibilities at Brady's film studio in New York. He then started regular stage performances. Alexander Woollcott described his acting in a 1922 play as inadequate. In 1930, he signed a contract with Fox and did his a ten-minute short film debut Broadway's Like That co-starring with Ruth Etting and Joan Blondell. Fox released him after two years. He performed for five years at stage and in minor film roles. In 1936, he played his breakthrough role in The Petrified Forest from Warner Bros. The then star Leslie Howard threatened Warner Bros. that he would quit if Bogart was not given the key role of Duke Mantee, which he had already played in the Broadway production with him; resultantly he was given the part over Edward G. Robinson. The film was a major hit and led to a durable contract with Warner Bros. From 1936 to 1940, he appeared in 28 films, generally as a gangster, twice in Westerns and even a horror film. His milestone year was 1941 in which he played roles in classics including High Sierra (1941) and as Sam Spade in one of his most lovingly remembered films, The Maltese Falcon (1941). After that he did Casablanca in 1942, The Big Sleep in 1946 and Key Largo in 1948. He, in spite of his inconsistent education, was amazingly well-read and favored writers and scholars within his small circle of friends. In 1947, he alongwith his wife Lauren Bacall and other actors joined protesting the House Un-American Activities Committee. He also created his own production company and made “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” in 1948. He won the best actor Academy Award for The African Queen in 1951 and was nominated for Casablanca and as Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny (1954), a film made when he was already seriously ill. He died on January 14, 1957 in his sleep at his Hollywood home situated in Los Angeles, California, United States following surgeries and a battle with throat cancer.