Gower Champion
Acting
1921-06-22 · Geneva, Illinois, USA
Gower Carlyle Champion (June 22, 1919 – August 25, 1980) was an American actor, theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. Champion was born on June 22, 1919, in Geneva, Illinois, as the son of John W. Champion and Beatrice Carlisle. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he graduated from Fairfax High School. He studied dance from an early age and, at the age of fifteen, toured nightclubs with friend Jeanne Tyler billed as "Gower and Jeanne, America's Youngest Dance Team". In 1939, "Gower and Jeanne" danced to the music of Larry Clinton and his Orchestra in a Warner Brothers & Vitaphone film short-subject, "The Dipsy Doodler" (released in 1940).
Filmography
42nd Street
2019 · Movie
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006 · Movie
42nd Street
1986 · Movie
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Movie
The Bank Shot
1974 · Movie
My Six Loves
1963 · Movie
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Series
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
1960 · Series
Startime
1959 · Series
Forty-five Minutes from Broadway
1959 · Movie
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959 · Series
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958 · Movie
The Girl Most Likely
1958 · Movie
What Day Is It?
1956 · Movie
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1956 · Movie
Three for the Show
1955 · Movie
Jupiter's Darling
1955 · Movie
Give a Girl a Break
1953 · Movie
Everything I Have Is Yours
1952 · Movie
Lovely to Look At
1952 · Movie
Show Boat
1951 · Movie
Mr. Music
1950 · Movie
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
The Admiral Broadway Revue
1949 · Series
Words and Music
1948 · Movie
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 · Movie
Rhapsody in Blue
1945 · Movie