Gene Kelly
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
129
Gender
Male
Birthday
1912-08-23
Day of death
1996-02-02 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Gene Kelly
Biography
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on screen. He starred in, choreographed, or co-directed some of the most well-regarded musical films of the 1940s and 1950s, until they fell out of fashion in the late 1950s. Kelly is best known today for his performances in films such as Cover Girl (1944), Anchors Aweigh (1945), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, On the Town (1949), which was his directorial debut, An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Brigadoon (1954), and It's Always Fair Weather (1955). Kelly made his film debut with Judy Garland in For Me and My Gal (1942), and followed by Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), Thousands Cheer (1943), The Pirate (1948), Summer Stock (1950), and Les Girls (1957) among others. After musicals he starred in two films outside the musical genre: Inherit the Wind (1960) and What a Way to Go! (1964). In 1967, he appeared in French director Jacques Demy's musical comedy The Young Girls of Rochefort opposite Catherine Deneuve. Kelly solo directed the comedy A Guide for the Married Man (1967) starring Walter Matthau, and later the extravagant musical Hello, Dolly! (1969) starring Barbra Streisand, recognized with an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Kelly co-hosted and appeared in Ziegfeld Follies (1946), That's Entertainment! (1974), That's Entertainment, Part II (1976), That's Dancing! (1985), and That's Entertainment, Part III (1994). His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences. Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award in 1952 for his career achievements; the same year, An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors (1982) and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute. In 1999, the American Film Institute also ranked him as the 15th greatest male screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Great Performances
The Merv Griffin Show
Champs-Elysées
North and South
Omnibus
What's My Line?
Omnibus
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
The Muppet Show
Numéro un
The Danny Kaye Show
The Kennedy Center Honors
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Singin' in the Rain
What a Way to Go!
Reflets de Cannes
Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again
Brigadoon
Sid & Judy
Thousands Cheer
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Going My Way
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Black Hand
Les Girls
Christmas Holiday
Summer Stock
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Viva Knievel!
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Talking Pictures
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Mickey's 50
The Three Musketeers
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Marjorie Morningstar
Inherit the Wind
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
An American in Paris
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Let's Make Love
Sins
On the Town
Cover Girl
Words and Music
40 Carats
Du Barry Was a Lady
The Pirate
Living in a Big Way
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Lucy Moves to NBC
For Me and My Gal
That's Dancing!
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
The Happy Road
Night of 100 Stars
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
Invitation to the Dance
It's a Big Country
Jack and the Beanstalk
Anchors Aweigh
Seagulls Over Sorrento
That's Entertainment!
Xanadu
Showbiz Goes to War
It's Showtime
It's Always Fair Weather
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
The Devil Makes Three
Love Is Better Than Ever
Twenty Years After
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Judy Garland: By Myself
That's Entertainment, Part II
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
The Cross of Lorraine
Directing Dolly: Gene Kelly Remembered
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
That's Entertainment! III
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
Frank Sinatra: Around the World
Ziegfeld Follies
The Costume Designer
Hollywood and the Stars
Ersatz
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Ça c'est l'amour
Summer Stock: Get Happy!
Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes is Back
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Story of Submarine Warfare in the Pacific
La La La
MGM Parade
MGM Parade
Doug Henning's World of Magic
Deep in My Heart
The Young Girls Turn 25
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
The Funny Side
The Sandy Duncan Special
Reporters
The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait
Musikalische Unterhaltung
Easter Parade: On the Avenue
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
The Lion Roars Again
Pilot #5
Behind the screens : Les demoiselles de Rochefort
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
Cinderella at the Palace
Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights
The Julie Andrews Show
Dancing, a Man's Game - Gene Kelly
The Movie Palaces
Combat Fatigue Irritability
Hollywood: The Golden Years
True Blue
An Evening with Gene Kelly
Sylvie Vartan: Live in Las Vegas
Happy Again
