How Humphrey Bogart Became One Of Hollywood’s Biggest Stars, After 30 Bad Movies

Humphrey Bogart is now remembered as one of the most iconic stars in movie history – and rightly so – but it took the actor a long time to escape B-movie villain roles. The American Film Institute has named Bogart as the greatest male movie star of all time. Bogart created the template for hard-boiled detectives in the film noir genre with his performances as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. He also played such iconic characters as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, LCDR Philip Francis Queeg in The Caine Mutiny, and Charlie Allnut in The African Queen.