Stephen Humphrey Bogart

Stephen Humphrey Bogart
Bogart with his mother, sister Leslie, and father
Born (1949-01-06) January 6, 1949
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Hartford
OccupationsWriter, producer, businessman
Spouses
Dale Bogart
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(m. 1969; div. 1984)​
Barbara Bogart
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(m. 1985; div. 2010)​
Carla Soviero
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(m. 2014)​
Children3
Parent(s)Humphrey Bogart
Lauren Bacall
RelativesSam Robards (maternal half-brother)
Maud Humphrey (paternal grandmother)

Stephen Humphrey Bogart (born January 6, 1949) is an American writer, producer, and businessman. He is one of the two children of actor Humphrey Bogart and actress Lauren Bacall, and authored three semi-autobiographical books about his family.

Early life

Stephen Humphrey Bogart was born on January 6, 1949, in Los Angeles, California, to actress Lauren Bacall and actor Humphrey Bogart[1][2] at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.[3] Raised in the affluent Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, Bogart and his younger sister, Leslie, counted Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra among their neighbors and family friends.[4][5] While his mother was a non-practicing Jew, Stephen and Leslie were christened and raised in their father's Episcopal faith and attended Sunday school.[6]

Following his father's death in 1957, the family relocated to his father's native New York City, where Bogart's mother had purchased an apartment at The Dakota.[5][7]

His half-brother is the actor Sam Robards, son of Bacall and her second husband, Jason Robards.

Bogart enrolled at the Milton Academy, where he graduated in 1967. Afterward, he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania and majored in English. He reported that he was unhappy with this, and changed to Boston University in 1969.[8]

Bogart met his first wife, Dale Gemelli, there.[8] The couple married in 1969 and divorced in 1984.[9] He has since married twice.[10]

Career

Bogart began his working career as an insurance agent, while he studied mass communications at the University of Hartford. He pursued a career in television news. At age 39, he moved from New York to become a producer for NBC's Sunday Today. Later, he took a job as an executive producer of a television news department.[5]

Bogart oversees the management of the estate of Humphrey Bogart. The business owns and manages the name, image, and likeness rights of Humphrey Bogart. The estate hosts an annual Humphrey Bogart Film Festival in Key Largo, Florida. The estate owns and manages Santana Films, the successor to Humphrey Bogart's company, Santana Productions. The business is also the founding partner of the Bogart Spirits liquor brand.[11]

Bogart hosted festivals celebrating the 70th and 75th anniversary of the film Casablanca (which his father starred in) in 2012 and 2017.[12][13]

Personal life

Bogart has three adult children and as of 2013 lives in Naples, Florida.[14] He is the brother-in-law of author and yoga master Erich Schiffmann.

Works

Bogart wrote the books Bogart: In Search of My Father,[15][16] Play it Again,[17][18] and The Remake: As Time Goes By.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Strum, Charles (November 9, 1995). "At Home With: Stephen Humphrey Bogart; Here's Looking at You, Dad". The New York Times. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  2. ↑ Bacall, Lauren (2006). By Myself and Then Some. New York: HarperCollins. p. 190. ISBN 978-0061127915.
  3. ↑ "Lauren Bacall: Mother of Son". New Castle News. January 7, 1949. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ Wanamaker, Marc (2010). Westwood. Arcadia. p. 55. ISBN 978-0738569109. Retrieved November 23, 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 Epstein, Warren (April 20, 1988). "Bogie, Bacall's Son Finds Niche in News". The Tampa Tribune. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
  6. ↑ Klausner, Kim (February 27, 2009). "Lauren Bacall". Jewish Women's Archive. Archived from the original on January 21, 2025. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  7. ↑ Alberts, Hana R. (March 9, 2015). "First Look Inside Lauren Bacall's Dakota Apartment of 53 Years". Curbed NY. Archived from the original on February 24, 2016.
  8. 1 2 Robertson, J. Greg (September 14, 1975). "Stephen Humphrey Bogart Wants to Be a Howard Cosell". Hartford Courant.
  9. ↑ "Son of Bogart-Bacall, to Wed Torrington Girl". Hartford Courant. September 19, 1969.
  10. ↑ "Stephen Bogart dishes on upcoming wedding". Page Six. September 30, 2014. Retrieved June 3, 2024.
  11. ↑ "A Letter From Stephen Bogart".
  12. ↑ Waters, Florence (February 22, 2012). "Casablanca Turns 70: Q&A with Humphrey Bogart's Son Stephen". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Here's looking at you, "Casablanca"". CBS News. November 21, 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  14. ↑ Eyman, Scott (February 13, 2013). "He's finally comfortable being Bogart's son". The Palm Beach Post. Archived from the original on January 14, 2021. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
  15. ↑ Bogart, Stephen (1996). Bogart: In Search of My Father. Pan. ISBN 978-0330346788.
  16. ↑ Blowen, Michael (September 18, 1995). "Bogart's son recounts a tough act to follow". The Boston Globe. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
  17. ↑ Bogart, Stephen (November 30, 2012). Play It Again. Untreed Reads. ISBN 978-1611874877.
  18. ↑ Grace, Melissa (April 9, 1995). ""Play it Again," by Stephen Humphrey Bogart..." The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
  19. ↑ Bogart, Stephen (1997). The Remake: As Time Goes By. Forge. ISBN 978-0312856663.
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