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Humphrey

Bogart

8th Cousin

Common Ancestor

Father: Isaac Sheldon
Ashwel, Hertfordshire, England
1629 - 1708
Born: Died:
Mother: Isabel Mary Woodford 25 December 1899 14 January 1957
Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial New York City, NY Los Angeles, California
America Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American film and
1636 - 1684 theater actor. His performances in numerous films during

the Classical Hollywood era made him an American cultural
icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected him as
the greatest male star of classic American cinema. Bogart
began acting in Broadway shows and began his movie
career in Up the River (1930). Bogart played the romantic
role in a part as large as co-star Spencer Tracy's, despite
Bogart's much lower billing. Bogart appeared in various
supporting parts for several years, sometimes portraying
gangsters due to his resemblance to John Dillinger. He was
highly praised for his work in The Petrified Forest (1936),
which was his big break into the Warner Bros. gangster
pantheon.

Bogart's breakthrough from supporting roles to A-list
stardom came with High Sierra (1941), his last role as a

gangster, and The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered to be one of the first great film noirs. His
private detectives Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Phillip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946)
became the model for detectives in other film noirs. His first true romantic lead role came when
he appeared alongside Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca (1942) and he received his first
nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Bogart and 19-year-old Lauren Bacall fell in
love when they filmed To Have and Have Not (1944) and soon after the main filming for The Big
Sleep (1946), their second film together, he filed for divorce from his third wife and married
Bacall. After their marriage, she also played his love interest in Dark Passage (1947), and Key
Largo (1948).
Bogart's performances in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and In a Lonely Place (1950)
are today considered to be among his best, although they were not as recognized at their time
of release. The unsettled and unstable character he portrayed in these roles is revisited in his

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