‘I love England – that’s what hurts so much’: why movie mobster George Raft was banned from the UK

• Many Hollywood stars visited the UK during the post-war years, but only one was barred from ever coming back. George Raft, one of the archetypal movie gangsters of the 1930s and the menacing Spats Columbo in the classic comedy Some Like It Hot, found himself unexpectedly banned from these shores in 1967, not long after he had been cast in what was effectively his real life dream role.