Fred Astaire
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PERSONAL DATA OF FRED ASTAIRE
Born in: OMAHA, Nebraska (USA)
Born on: 10/05/1899
Dies at: LOS ANGELES, California (USA)
He dies on: 10/05/1987
BIOGRAPHY OF FRED ASTAIRE
Actor and dancer, the son of an Austrian emigrant, he made his debut at a very young age by dancing with his sister Adele. The two formed a successful couple performing in London and Broadway theaters from 1907 to 1932. Left alone due to Adele’s marriage to an English lord, in 1933 he signed a contract with RKO and made his big screen debut with a small part in “Dancing Lady” by Robert Z. Leonard with Joan Crawford. In the same year he meets Ginger Rogers on the set of Thorntorn Freeland’s “Carioca” (Flyng down to Rio) and with her he forms one of the most famous couples in cinema. They work together in a dozen films, but in 1939 the harmony between the two is broken and she abandons him to try a different career; they met one last time in 1949 in Charles Walters’ Barckleys of Broadway. In 1946 he decided to leave the cinema and opened a chain of dance schools. But it will be for a while since in 1948 he returned to the screens with the film “I loved you without knowing it” (Easter Parade) by Walters himself alongside Judy Garland, also following a petition from the Paramount Theater in New York with ten thousand signatures of In his career he received two Oscars: in 1949 a Special Oscar for his contribution to musical films and in 1974 for Best Supporting Actor in John Guillermin’s The Towering Inferno, in in which he plays a non-dancing but dramatic role which also earned him a Golden Globe. He received another Golden Globe for Richard Thorpe’s “Three little words” in 1950 and special career awards from the Berlin Film Festival in 1970 and the American Film Institute in 1981. He had only one wife, Phyllis Porter, married in 1933, with whom she had two children, Fred jr. and Ava. Two of his great passions: horses and golf.His grave is in Oakwood Memorial Park, the same cemetery where Ginger Rogers was buried.
FRED ASTAIRE’S LATEST FILMS
GHOST STORY
Role: Actor
Year: 1981
A mauve taxi (A mauve taxi)
Role: Actor
Year: 1977
Hollywood Hollywood (That’s Entertainment, Part II)
Role: Actor
Year: 1976
SUPER SHOT OF THE 5 GOLDEN DOBERMANNS (THE AMAZING DOBERMANS)
Role: Actor
Year: 1976 Go to the Complete Filmography
THE MOST RECURRING GENRES OF FRED ASTAIRE
Musical: 42% Comedy: 26% Sentimental: 8% Drama: 4%
RECENT ROLES PERFORMED BY FRED ASTAIRE
| Movie | Role |
|---|---|
GHOST STORIES | Ricky Hawthorne |
A mauve taxi | Doctor Scully |
Hollywood Hollywood | Himself / The narrator |
SUPER SHOT OF THE 5 GOLDEN DOBERMANNS | Daniel Hughes |
Once upon a time there was Hollywood | (himself – narrator) |
Crystal hell | Harlee Claiborne |
Imagine | himself |
THE SHOT WAS PERFECT BUT … | Co-Pilot |
ON THE WINGS OF THE RAINBOW | Finian Mclonergan |
THE ROOM RENTAL | Franklyn Ambruster |
The pleasure of his company | Biddeford ‘Pogo’ Poole ‘Pogo’ Poole |
The last resort | Julian Osborne |
Cinderella in Paris | Dick Avery |
The beauty of Moscow | Steve Canfield |
DAD GAMBALUNGA | Jervis Pendleton Iii |
Variety show | Tony Hunter |
THE BELLE OF NEW YORK | Charles Hill |
HER HIGHNESS IS MARRIED |
