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