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There were plenty of actors who could play a convincing tough guy, but the guy audiences wanted to see, and whom producers wanted to put on the screen was Humphrey Bogart . Even for productions that could afford him, there was only so much Bogey to go around. So, there was always work for an actor who could play a convincing “thoughtful tough guy”. There could only be one Bogey, of course, and despite the many comparison's which call Gerald Mohr “the Bogey of the Bs”, Mohr was arguably the more convincing thoughtful tough guy. Mohr certainly had the intellectual chops for the job. He was raised by his mother and maternal grandfather (his father had been killed in an elevator accident). The old man was a noted psychologist and an associate of Sigmund Freud, and encouraged the boys intellectual pursuits, enrolling young Gerald in the Dwight Preparatory School. Here Gerald learned to play the piano, ride horses and speak German and French. He enrolled in pre-med courses at Columb...