Gene Kelly
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
133
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 Mike Douglas Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Great Performances
What's My Line?
Champs-Elysées
North and South
The Merv Griffin Show
The Oscars
Omnibus
The Muppet Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
Omnibus
The Kennedy Center Honors
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Brigadoon
Numéro un
For Me and My Gal
The Danny Kaye Show
Let's Make Love
Summer Stock
The Three Musketeers
The Pirate
Black Hand
Singin' in the Rain
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Going My Way
It's Showtime
Marjorie Morningstar
Inherit the Wind
MGM Parade
MGM Parade
MGM Parade
MGM Parade
MGM Parade
Reflets de Cannes
That's Dancing!
That's Entertainment! III
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Du Barry Was a Lady
Night of 100 Stars
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
Talking Pictures
Invitation to the Dance
Judy Garland: By Myself
Twenty Years After
Ersatz
It's Always Fair Weather
An American in Paris
Reporters
That's Entertainment!
Xanadu
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Words and Music
The Costume Designer
What a Way to Go!
Hollywood and the Stars
On the Town
The Funny Side
Sins
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Lion Roars Again
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Anchors Aweigh
Ziegfeld Follies
Cover Girl
James Bond: The First 21 Years
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Sid & Judy
Doug Henning's World of Magic
Showbiz Goes to War
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
It's a Big Country
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
The Cross of Lorraine
Mickey's 50
Deep in My Heart
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
The Happy Road
Jack and the Beanstalk
Les Girls
40 Carats
Thousands Cheer
That's Entertainment, Part II
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Love Is Better Than Ever
Christmas Holiday
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights
The Sandy Duncan Special
La La La
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
Lucy Moves to NBC
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Viva Knievel!
Pilot #5
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Musikalische Unterhaltung
The Devil Makes Three
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Seagulls Over Sorrento
Cinderella at the Palace
Living in a Big Way
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
The Young Girls Turn 25
Behind the screens : Les demoiselles de Rochefort
Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
The Movie Palaces
The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Ça c'est l'amour
Reunited at MGM: Astaire and Rogers Together Again
Combat Fatigue Irritability
The Julie Andrews Show
Easter Parade: On the Avenue
Sylvie Vartan: Live in Las Vegas
True Blue
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Dancing, a Man's Game - Gene Kelly
An Evening with Gene Kelly
Hollywood: The Golden Years
Directing Dolly: Gene Kelly Remembered
Summer Stock: Get Happy!
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes is Back
Frank Sinatra: Around the World
Happy Again
The Story of Submarine Warfare in the Pacific
