44-year-old Bogart and 19-year-old Lauren Bacall fell in love during filming of To Have and Have Not (1944). His most significant romantic lead role was with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942), which earned him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Bogart's private detectives, Sam Spade (in The Maltese Falcon) and Philip Marlowe (in 1946's The Big Sleep), became the models for detectives in other noir films.
His breakthrough from supporting roles to stardom was set in motion with High Sierra (1941) and catapulted in The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered one of the first great noir films.
Bogart also received positive reviews for his performance as gangster Hugh "Baby Face" Martin, in Dead End (1937), directed by William Wyler. He was praised for his work as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), but remained cast secondary to other actors at Warner Bros. īogart began acting in Broadway shows, beginning his career in motion pictures with Up the River (1930) for Fox and appeared in supporting roles for the next decade, regularly portraying gangsters. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema. His performances in classical Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( / ˈ b oʊ ɡ ɑːr t/ Decem– January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American film and stage actor.
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