Gregory gaye

He is a bald American/Russian actor, born in Saint Petersburg to a father who works as an actor on October 10, 1900.

Gaye continued to play the role of aristocrats like Count Frederic Brekenski in Warner Bros.'s Tovarich starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer and Basil Rathbone. His first credited role was as Prince Ordinsky in the 1929 Will Rogers comedy They Had to See Paris. The following year, he appeared in Savage Mutiny, starring Johnny Weissmuller (one of two movies they appeared in together).

Three years after that in 1969, he received his next part, a small uncredited role in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Topaz.

Gaye did not appear in any more movies until the late 1970s.

In another, he again plays a German banker, this time in Cornered, starring Dick Powell.

After that year, the roles became scarcer. He got a small role in Cargo to Capetown, starring Broderick Crawford. He was a student at the Naval Academy of the Russian Empire. Later that year, he appeared as Vologuine in the Victor Fleming film Renegades with Myrna Loy and Bela Lugosi.

Next, he played a Nazi named Karl in the comedy Fall In.

Later in 1942, at age 41, he landed a small role in Casablanca as an official of Hitler's Reichsbank. Later, he got a small role in South Sea Woman, starring Burt Lancaster and Virginia Mayo. In 1955, Gaye portrayed an ex-Nazi mad scientist who teams up with a mobster to bring dead gangsters to life in Columbia's science-fiction B horror movie Creature with the Atom Brain.

In 1941, Gaye played Von Mueller in They Dare Not Love starring George Brent and Paul Lukas. Next was a part as Ali in Columbia's The Magic Carpet, starring Lucille Ball. He died in 1993, at the age of 93.

Here are 10 things you should know about Gregory Gaye, born 125 years ago today.

One of them was a war drama, Paris Underground, about two women trying to help downed Allied pilots escape Nazi-occupied France. Gaye appeared in Kelly and Me, starring Van Johnson, in 1957 and the following year as Vladimir Klinkoff in Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell. The following year, he played a book forger in the mystery The Trespasser, starring Dale Evans.

In 1952, he appeared as Paul Shushaldin in Raoul Walsh's historical adventure The World in His Arms, starring Gregory Peck and Ann Blyth. Next he played Becker in the war drama Flight Lieutenant starring Pat O'Brien and Glenn Ford.

In 1942, Gaye played a Nazi spy and saboteur named Feldon in Columbia's spy serial Secret Code. He also played the part of Joe Sapphire in a small crime drama The Tiger Woman.

Also in 1936, he received another good role as Enrico Borelli in the mystery Charlie Chan at the Opera starring Boris Karloff.

In 1937, Gaye portrayed a pianist named Dmitri 'Didi' Shekoladnikoff in the comedy Mama Steps Out starring Guy Kibbee.