Humphrey Bogart, like other stars, made war films, or films set in the political contexts of various wars).
Of his 75 features, in a career spanning more than two decades, 13 (about 17 percent) were such movies:
Across the Pacific, 1942
All Through the Night, 1942
Casablanca, 1943
Sahara, 1943
Passage to Marseilles, 1944
To Have, 1945
Tokyo Joe, 1949
Chain Lighting, 1950
Sirocco, 1951
African Queen, 1951
Battle Circus, 1953
The Caine Mutiny, 1954
The Left Hand of Gun, 1955
Of the 75 films he made, 43 were crime (noir) stories, 13 were war tales, 3 were Westerns, and only 2 were straight comedies.
His dominant and defining genre was the crime noir film.
In The Oklahoma Kid he was miscast as a Mexican bandit, a black-garbed villain
In Virginia City, he played a half breed bandit;
In the western-like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, he played a greed gold prospector.
The comedies came late in his career: Sabrina, in 1954, for which he was too old to play Audrey Hepburn’s lover.
We’re No Angels,
As noted, he died or was killed on screen in one third of his movies, 25 to be exact, but 18 of these were made before he became a major star.
