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2	[[caption-width-right:300:"The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of."]]
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4	->''"Here's looking at you, kid."''
5	-->-- One of his many famous lines from ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''
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7	Humphrey [=DeForest=] Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor whose performances in 1940s [[FilmNoir films noirs]] earned him status as a cultural icon.
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9	Bogart was born to Belmont [=DeForest=] Bogart, a New York society doctor of Knickerbocker descent, and his wife, society illustrator Maud Humphrey. After being kicked out of Andover Academy (one of the most prestigious schools in New England), Humphrey did a stint in the Navy as a military policeman near the end of World War One.
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11	He drifted into acting in the early 1920s and became a regular in Broadway productions, often playing society fops. The 1929 stock market crash forced many Broadway theatres to close, but the real impetus behind Bogart's move to Hollywood and movies was the crash's effect on his family's finances; his father had been bankrupted, leaving Bogart's mother and disabled sister almost destitute and Bogart himself without a safety net. After spending much of the 1930s as a minor contract player in Hollywood, his first great success was as the ferocious Duke Mantee in the Broadway play ''The Petrified Forest''. He repeated the role in [[Film/ThePetrifiedForest the film version]], which led to a contract with Warner Bros. and a period of typecasting as a gangster in B-movies. His breakthrough came in 1941 with ''Film/HighSierra'' and ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon\|1941}}''. The next year, his performance as Rick Blaine in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' raised him to the peak of his profession and at the same time, cemented his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Other successes followed, including ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot'', ''Film/TheBigSleep'', ''Film/DarkPassage'', and ''Film/KeyLargo'', with his wife Creator/LaurenBacall (whom he married on friend Creator/PeterLorre's advice); ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre''; ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'', opposite Creator/KatharineHepburn, for which he won his only UsefulNotes/AcademyAward; ''Film/{{Sabrina\|1954}}'', and ''Literature/TheCaineMutiny''. During a film career of almost thirty years, he appeared in 75 feature films. All of his WB releases directly produced by the studio were among the films sold to Associated Artists Productions in 1956 (they have since returned to WB ownership through Turner Entertainment).
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13	Despite being, arguably, not mainstream Hollywood and showing disdain for the general 'Movie star attitude' (he hated phonies), Bogart, in his capacity as a leading man and even a bit before that, got to work with many of the major female stars of the period, including Creator/KatharineHepburn, Creator/BetteDavis, Creator/IngridBergman, Creator/AvaGardner, Creator/AudreyHepburn, etc. He was also pretty connected to many of the major male stars through the Rat Pack and his funeral was a veritable "Who's who" of Hollywood.
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15	At the time of his death from cancer in 1957, Bogart was one of the most respected figures in American cinema. Since his death, his persona and film performances have been considered as having a lasting impact and have led to him being described as a cultural icon. In 1997, Entertainment Weekly magazine named him the number one movie legend of all time. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the Greatest Male Star of All Time. He made [[Film/TheAfricanQueen one movie]] with AFI's number one on their female list, Creator/KatharineHepburn; offscreen, the two were part of the same social circle and were also close friends.
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17	The term "Bogart," used to mean "hoard" (as in, "stop Bogarting that joint, give it to me") comes from how Bogart's characters would often be seen holding lit cigarettes, but would rarely actually take a puff.
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19	He also makes appearances in several ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts, including one where Elmer Fudd hits him in the face with a coconut custard pie with whipped cream.
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21	!!Humphrey Bogart films on TV Tropes:
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23	* ''Film/BigCityBlues'' (1932)
24	* ''Film/ThreeOnAMatch'' (1932)
25	* ''Film/BulletsOrBallots'' (1936)
26	* ''Film/ThePetrifiedForest'' (1936)
27	* ''Film/{{Dead End\|1937}}'' (1937)
28	* ''Film/KidGalahad'' (1937)
29	* ''Film/StandIn'' (1937)
30	* ''Film/AngelsWithDirtyFaces'' (1938)
31	* ''Film/SwingtimeInTheMovies'' (1938)(cameo)
32	* ''Film/DarkVictory'' (1939)
33	* ''Film/{{The Roaring Twenties\|1939}}'' (1939)
34	* ''[[Film/DoctorX The Return of Doctor X]]'' (1939)
35	* ''Film/BrotherOrchid'' (1940)
36	* ''Film/TheyDriveByNight'' (1940)
37	* ''Film/VirginiaCity'' (1940)
38	* ''Film/HighSierra'' (1941)
39	* ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon\|1941}}'' (1941)
40	* ''Film/AllThroughTheNight'' (1941)
41	* ''Film/AcrossThePacific'' (1942)
42	* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' (1942)
43	* ''Film/ThankYourLuckyStars'' (1943)
44	* ''Film/{{Sahara\|1943}}'' (1943)
45	* ''Film/PassageToMarseille'' (1944)
46	* ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot'' (1944)
47	* ''Film/TheBigSleep'' (1946)
48	* ''Film/DarkPassage'' (1947)
49	* ''Film/DeadReckoning'' (1947)
50	* ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' (1948)
51	* ''Film/KeyLargo'' (1948)
52	* ''Film/ChainLightning'' (1950)
53	* ''Film/InALonelyPlace'' (1950)
54	* ''Film/TheAfricanQueen'' (1951)
55	* ''Film/{{The Enforcer\|1951}}'' (1951) The movie (told mainly through flashback) features the investigation of an organization based on the original MurderInc, as the police struggle to find a witness who can convict the BigBad.
56	* ''Radio/BoldVenture'' (radio series, 1951-52)
57	* ''Film/BattleCircus'' (1953)
58	* ''Film/BeatTheDevil'' (1953)
59	* ''Film/TheBarefootContessa'' (1954)
60	* ''Literature/TheCaineMutiny'' (1954)
61	* ''Film/{{Sabrina\|1954}}'' (1954)
62	* ''Film/WereNoAngels'' (1955)
63	* ''Film/TheDesperateHours'' (1955)
64	* ''Film/{{The Harder They Fall\|1956}}'' (1956) -- last film, made while he was dying of cancer
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66	!!Tropes relating to Bogart's work and cultural appearance include:
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68	%%Please do not add any solely personal tropes. This page is for his works.
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70	* AntiHero: Great part of his roles.
71	* ArtisticLicenseFirearms: The term bogarting, when not used in the context of smoking, refers to closing a revolver cylinder with a snap of the wrist. This is actually a good way to ruin the crane of the revolver, one of the few moving parts of the gun.
72	* BadassLongcoat: Frequently. Can make a strong claim to being the TropeCodifier.
73	* CatchPhrase: One of the many things that are part of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'''s legacy is giving him several, such as "Play it again, Sam" and "Here's looking at you, kid."
74	* ChronicallyKilledActor: Like his contemporaries, Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, he had a habit of getting gunned down onscreen very often early in his career; less so following his foray into "heroic" roles, although still present in films where his character's motives deteriorate, such as [[spoiler:''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'']].
75	* DeadpanSnarker: His specialty. Even Bogart's purported final words ("I should never have switched from Scotch to martinis") rang of his trademark wit.
76	* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Often a running gag with his characters. Although not a PintSizePowerhouse kind of short, with many men in Hollywood over six feet tall, Bogart at 5'8 was on the shorter size. In some movies, characters reference this or call the trope by name, and Bogart's response is often that he's NeverHeardThatOneBefore.
77	* FedoraOfAsskicking: His characters tended to wear a fedora, and awesomeness followed them.
78	* FilmNoir: Does it star Humphrey Bogart? Then yes, it ''is'' film noir.
79	* IconicOutfit: Bogart's status as style icon and most Bogart parodies base themselves on some of these famous outfits:
80	** From ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon\|1941}}'', the fedora, the trench-coat, and suit, which has become ''the'' standard private detective look.
81	** From ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', the white tuxedo he wears at Cafe Americain, which is so iconic that numerous later films homage it, for instance, Indiana Jones sports one at the nightclub sequence in Shanghai in ''Temple of Doom''. The outfit he wears at the airport scene, which is also a fedora and trenchcoat ensemble is famous too.
82	* KnightInSourArmor: A good rule of thumb in his films is that underneath all that cynicism beats the heart of a knight. [[Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre Most of the time.]] According to his wife, he was a little bit like this in real life as well. Bogie referred to himself as a last century man (being born on Christmas Day 1899) and was typically quite a gentleman, espousing some long-forgotten Victorian ideals.
83	* MrFanservice: Unintentionally actually: he was not conventionally handsome but he had strong sex appeal (by projecting strong force of personality). Funnily enough, when he first tried to break into Hollywood, one studio executive told him to "Go back to Broadway and stay there" because he felt that Bogart didn't have the face to be in movies.
84	* PrivateDetective: TropeCodifier with his playing the quintessential PI in ''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon\|1941}}'' and ''Film/TheBigSleep'', which were movie versions of two of the best-hardboiled crime novels, and both of the movies themselves are considered two of the best detective/film noir movies ever made.
85	* ScullyBox: Various tricks were used to conceal his height, from Creator/IngridBergman having to slouch during the filming of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' to switching out his character's firearms, using a smaller .32 when a .45 looked too large in his hands.
86	* SmokingIsCool: Hoo, boy. You know that you're associated with smoking when your last name becomes shorthand for hoarding a cigarette. Rather unironically what killed him, as he died of esophageal cancer in 1957.
87	* UndyingLoyalty: Leslie Howard insisted that Bogart was cast in The Petrified Forest when a film adaptation of the play was made. Kick starting Humphrey's career. Bogart never forgot the kindness and named his daughter in honour of his friend when she was born.
88	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Humphrey Bogart was a gifted actor but accents were not in his skill set. He tried them sometimes in his Warner Brothers character actor days, and the results, like when he played an Irishman in ''Dark Victory'' or a Mexican in ''Virginia City'', were always disastrous.

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