--- name: "Gregory Ratoff" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gregory-ratoff" fi1m_id: "gregory-ratoff" imdb_id: "nm0711855" tmdb_id: 10610 wikidata_id: "Q1361039" roles: ["Actor"] born: "19 April 1897" died: "14 December 1960" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T23:25:59.658477+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Gregory Ratoff ## Identity Gregory Ratoff - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gregory-ratoff - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** gregory-ratoff - **IMDb ID:** nm0711855 - **TMDB ID:** 10610 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1361039 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Ratoff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1361039, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0711855/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10610 Actor. Born 19 April 1897 in Samara, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Died 14 December 1960. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 19 April 1897, Samara, Russian Empire [now Russia] - **Died:** 14 December 1960 - **Also known as:** Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Ratoff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1361039, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0711855/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10610 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*All About Eve*](https://film.one/film/all-about-eve.md) (90) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Gregory Ratoff, also credited as Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner, was a Russian-born American actor, director and producer. He appeared in supporting roles in numerous films from the 1930s onwards. As an actor he is known for his performance as producer Max Fabian in *All About Eve* (1950). Other credits include *I'm No Angel* (1933), *Intermezzo: A Love Story* (1939, in which he also directed), *Sabrina* (1954), *O. Henry's Full House* (1952) and *Exodus* (1960). He directed more than twenty features, among them *The Corsican Brothers* (1941) and *Oscar Wilde* (1960). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *All About Eve* (1950), Fi1m 90, as Max Fabian — [page](https://film.one/film/all-about-eve.md) ## Complete filmography (78) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker* (1991), as actor 'The Moon Is Blue' (archive footage) (uncredited) - *The Big Gamble* (1961), as Kaltenberg - *Exodus* (1960), as Lakavitch - *Oscar Wilde* (1960), Director, Producer - *Once More, with Feeling!* (1960), as Maxwell Archer - *The Sun Also Rises* (1957), as Count Mippipopolous - *Armchair Theatre* (1956), series, Writer - *Abdullah's Harem* (1955), as Abdulla · Director, Producer, Writer - *Sabrina* (1954), as Man with David Larrabee (uncredited) - *The Girl on The Roof* (1953), as Taxi driver - *The Moon Is Blue* (1953), as Taxi Driver - *Taxi* (1953), Director - *O. Henry's Full House* (1952), as Behrman (segment "The Last Leaf") - *All About Eve* (1950), as Max Fabian — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/all-about-eve.md) - *My Daughter Joy* (1950), as Marcos · Director, Producer - *Black Magic* (1949), Director, Producer - *That Dangerous Age* (1949), Director - *Moss Rose* (1947), Director - *Carnival in Costa Rica* (1947), Director - *Do You Love Me* (1946), Director - *Paris Underground* (1945), Director - *Where Do We Go from Here?* (1945), Director - *Irish Eyes Are Smiling* (1944), Director - *Song of Russia* (1944), Director - *The Heat's On* (1943), Director - *Something to Shout About* (1943), Director, Producer - *Footlight Serenade* (1942), Director - *Two Yanks in Trinidad* (1942), Director - *The Corsican Brothers* (1942), Director - *The Men in Her Life* (1941), Director - *Adam Had Four Sons* (1941), Director - *Public Deb No. 1* (1940), Director - *The Great Profile* (1940), as Boris Mefoofsky - *I Was an Adventuress* (1940), Director - *Barricade* (1939), Director - *Day-time Wife* (1939), Director - *Intermezzo: A Love Story* (1939), Director - *Hotel for Women* (1939), Director - *Ingrid Bergman, "Intermezzo" Screen Test* (1939), Director - *Rose of Washington Square* (1939), Director - *Wife, Husband and Friend* (1939), Director - *Gateway* (1938), as Prince Michael Boris Alexis - *Hollywood Handicap* (1938), as Man at Racetrack - *Sally, Irene and Mary* (1938), as Alex Zorka - *Lancer Spy* (1937), Director - *You Can't Have Everything* (1937), Original Story - *Café Metropole* (1937), as Paul · Original Story - *Top of the Town* (1937), as J.J. Stone - *Seventh Heaven* (1937), as Boul the Cab Driver - *Under Your Spell* (1936), as Petroff - *The Road to Glory* (1936), as Pipe-smoking whistling sgt - *Sing, Baby, Sing* (1936), as Nicholas K. Alexander - *Sins of Man* (1936), Director - *Under Two Flags* (1936), as Ivan - *Here Comes Trouble* (1936), as Ivan Petroff - *King of Burlesque* (1936), as Kolpolpeck - *Remember Last Night?* (1935), as Faronea - *Hello, Sweetheart* (1935), as Joseph Lewish - *18 Minutes* (1935), as Nikita · Producer - *Forbidden Territory* (1934), as Alexei Leshki - *Falling in Love* (1934), as Oscar Marks - *The Great Flirtation* (1934), Story - *George White's Scandals* (1934), as Nicholas Mitwoch - *Let's Fall in Love* (1933), as New York Film Executive - *Girl Without a Room* (1933), as The General / Grand Duke Serge Alexovich - *Sitting Pretty* (1933), as Tannenbaum - *Broadway Thru a Keyhole* (1933), as Max Mafoofski - *I'm No Angel* (1933), as Benny Pinkowitz - *Headline Shooter* (1933), as Gottlieb - *Professional Sweetheart* (1933), as Ipswich - *Sweepings* (1933), as Abe Ullman - *Secrets of the French Police* (1932), as Han Moloff - *Under-Cover Man* (1932), as Martoff - *Once in a Lifetime* (1932), as Herman Glogauer - *Skyscraper Souls* (1932), as Mr. Vinmont - *What Price Hollywood?* (1932), as Julius Saxe - *Symphony of Six Million* (1932), as Meyer - *For Sale* (1929), as Salesman ## Gallery - ![Gregory Ratoff](https://film.one/media/person/105025/gallery-c1617f1b4ec3.png) Gregory Ratoff — Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/ProfessionalSweetheart9.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Fredric March, June Lang, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, and Gregory Ratoff in The Road to Glory](https://film.one/media/person/105025/gallery-53d14e7e5a71.jpg) Fredric March, June Lang, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, and Gregory Ratoff in The Road to Glory — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Fredric_March%2C_June_Lang%2C_Warner_Baxter%2C_Lionel_Barrymore%2C_and_Gregory_Ratoff_-_The_Road_to_Glory_%281936%29_%2850746607617%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Jinx Falkenburg and Gregory Ratoff stand together in Palm Springs. She wears shorts, he wears pants, a jacket, and sunglasses. Both wear sneakers. Trees and a f](https://film.one/media/person/105025/gallery-e6f7160a6d3e.jpg) Jinx Falkenburg and Gregory Ratoff stand together in Palm Springs. She wears shorts, he wears pants, a jacket, and sunglasses. Both wear sneakers. Trees and a f — Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Jinx_Falkenburg_and_Gregory_Ratoff.jpg/1280px-Jinx_Falkenburg_and_Gregory_Ratoff.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gary Merrill, Gregory Ratoff and Bette Davis in All About Eve (1950).](https://film.one/media/person/105025/gallery-23b7f5722278.jpg) Gary Merrill, Gregory Ratoff and Bette Davis in All About Eve (1950). — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Merrill%2C_Ratoff_and_Davis.jpg/1280px-Merrill%2C_Ratoff_and_Davis.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gregory Ratoff](https://film.one/media/person/105025/gallery-bf25ef63790e.jpg) Gregory Ratoff — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. 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