Bogart Timeline

Humphrey Bogart Timeline

Important dates in order of Humphrey Bogart's life.

1899
Born to Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart, a noted Manhattan surgeon, and Maud Humphrey

Bogart, a successful magazine illustrator.

1917
Bogart joins the U.S. Navy and serves in World War I. Comes home with a scarred and

partially paralyzed upper lip.

1920
While earning $50 a week as road company manager, Bogart takes his first stab at

acting, in The Ruined Lady.

1926
Bogart marries actress Helen Menken. They divorce in 1927.

1928
Bogart marries for a second time, to actress Mary Phillips and divorce in 1937.

1930
Fox scouts see him in the play, It's a Wise Child. Humphrey Bogart signs for

$400 a week and moves to Hollywood.

1930
Bogart is 31 years old when he makes his first film, Broadway's Like That.

1935
Bogart plays gangster Duke Mantee in a smash Broadway production of Robert

Sherwood's The Pertrified Forest, starring Leslie Howard.

1936-1942
Bogart averages one picture every two months including a long list of crime

pictures.

1937
Bogart is 37 years old when the Hollywood version of The Petrified Forest

and secures his stature as an actor.

1938
Bogart marries actress Mayo Methot, his third wife. They divorce in 1945.

1942
Casablanca becomes one of the biggest money-makers in Warner Brothers history

and pushes Bogart to the top of his popularity. For the next seven years

(1943-1949), he is ranked among the top ten biggest money making stars.

1945
Bogart marries for the fourth and final time, to actress Lauren Bacall.

1947
Bogart, the highest-paid actor in the world, forms his own production company,

Santana Pictures.

1948
The last of the "Bogart pictures", Key Largo, is also one of Bogart's most

successful at the box office.

1952
Bogart wins an Oscar for The African Queen (1951).

1956
Bogart's last film, The Harder They Fall, opens.

1957
After an operation for cancer of the esophagus, the disease spreads and Bogart

 dies in his sleep early in the morning at his Los Angeles home.