Gene Kelly
Actor
Born August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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).
Filmography
True Blue
(Archive Footage)
Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee (archive footage)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self (archive footage)
Starstruck: Gene Kelly's Love Letter to Ballet
Sid & Judy
Self (archive footage)
La La La
Various Roles (archive footage)
Talking Pictures
Self (archive footage)
Directing Dolly: Gene Kelly Remembered
Self (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra: Around the World
Self - Guest
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
(archive footage)
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1950s: The Golden Era of the Musical
Self (archive)
Summer Stock: Get Happy!
Joe D. Ross (archive footage) (uncredited)
Happy Again
Don Lockwood (archive footage)
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
Self (archive footage)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Don Lockwood
Judy Garland: By Myself
Self - Actor (archive sound)
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Self (archive footage)
A Bing Crosby Christmas
Self / Narrator (archive footage)
Cats Don't Dance
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self
That's Entertainment! III
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
100 Years at the Movies
Self (archive footage)
The Young Girls Turn 25
Self (archive footage)
Tom & Jerry's 50th Birthday Bash
Self
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
Self
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Self (archive footage)
Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues
Self
The Movie Palaces
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
Sins
Eric Hovland
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
Self (archive footage)
North and South
Sen. Charles Edwards
That's Dancing!
Self - Host
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Self
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Champs-Elysées
Self
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
Self - Narrator (voice)
Reporters
Self
Xanadu
Danny McGuire
Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights
Self
Lucy Moves to NBC
Self
Frank Sinatra: The First 40 Years
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait
Self
Mickey's 50
Self
Cinderella at the Palace
Host
Ersatz
Don Lockwood (voice) (archive sound)
Viva Knievel!
Will Atkins
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self
The Muppet Show
Self - Special Guest Star
That's Entertainment, Part II
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
Cérémonie des César
Self - President
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
Doug Henning's World of Magic
Self
Numéro un
Self
The Sandy Duncan Special
Self
That's Entertainment!
Self - Host / Narrator
Frank Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes is Back
Self - Guest Performer
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Self
40 Carats
Billy Boylan
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
Great Performances
Self
The Cheyenne Social Club
Hello, Dolly!
Omnibus
Self
A Guide for the Married Man
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Andy Miller
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jeremy Keen, the Peddler
Behind the screens : Les demoiselles de Rochefort
Self
The Julie Andrews Show
Self
American in Paris
What a Way to Go!
Pinky Benson
Hollywood and the Stars
Self (archive footage)
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
Gigot
Going My Way
Father Chuck O'Malley
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
Let's Make Love
Gene Kelly (uncredited)
Inherit the Wind
E.K. Hornbeck
Dancing, a Man's Game - Gene Kelly
Self
The Tunnel of Love
Badman's Country
Marjorie Morningstar
Noel Airman
Les Girls
Barry Nichols
The Happy Road
Michael J. Andrews
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Tom T. Triplett
Invitation to the Dance
Host / Pierrot / The Marine / Sinbad
MGM Parade
Performer in 'Ziegfeld Follies' (archive footage)
It's Always Fair Weather
Ted Riley
Deep in My Heart
Performer (segment "Dancing Around")
Brigadoon
Tommy Albright
Seagulls Over Sorrento
Lieutenant Bradville
Reflets de Cannes
Self
The Oscars
Self
Omnibus
Self (segment)
The Devil Makes Three
Jeff Eliot
Singin' in the Rain
Don Lockwood
Love Is Better Than Ever
Gene Kelly (uncredited)
It's a Big Country
Icarus Xenophon
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Tom T. Triplett
An American in Paris
Jerry Mulligan
Summer Stock
Joe D. Ross
The Costume Designer
Self (archive footage)
Black Hand
Giovanni E. 'Johnny' Columbo
What's My Line?
Self
On the Town
Gabey
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Eddie O'Brien
Words and Music
Gene Kelly
The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Pirate
Serafin
Living in a Big Way
Leo Gogarty
The Story of Submarine Warfare in the Pacific
Narrator (voice)
Ziegfeld Follies
Gentleman (segment "The Babbit and the Bromide")
Anchors Aweigh
Joseph Brady
Combat Fatigue Irritability
Seaman Bob Lucas
Christmas Holiday
Robert Manette
Cover Girl
Danny McGuire
Twenty Years After
(archive footage)
The Cross of Lorraine
Victor
Thousands Cheer
Eddie Marsh
Du Barry Was a Lady
Alec Howe / Black Arrow
Pilot #5
Vito S. Alessandro
For Me and My Gal
Harry Palmer