Gene Kelly

His most notable moments on film include:. He died in Studio City, California from lung cancer. He was the first American to choreograph and stage a ballet in the Paris Opera. He also received recognition as a photographer and published five books of photographs. Kelly married three times:. McDowall was also a president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that presents the Oscar. He also received the Life Achievement Award from American Film Institute in 1985. He played a recurring character villain, "The Bookworm", in the camp 1960s TV series Batman and had an acclaimed recurring role as the The Mad Hatter in Batman: The Animated Series.

Kelly was awarded a special Academy Award “in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film” in 1951 and reawarded in 1984's Academy Awards due to a fire which burned down his home in the previous year. He also appeared on stage and television. Kelly was awarded the Legion of Honor by the French government in 1960. Other film appearances included The Poseidon Adventure (1972). An energetic and athletic performer, he was known for doing his own stunts. McDowall was one of the few child actors to continue his career successfully into adulthood, but it was usually in character roles, notably in four of the five original Planet of the Apes movies (1968-1973). Eugene Curran Kelly (born August 23, 1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died February 2, 1996 in Beverly Hills, California after suffering two strokes at the age of 83), was best known as an American dancer in films, but was also an actor, singer, director and choreographer. It was as "Huw" in How Green Was My Valley (1941) that he made his name, and he appeared in many other films as a child actor, including The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) and some of the Lassie series, where he appeared opposite the young Elizabeth Taylor.

"If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando." -- Gene Kelly. He was born in London to a family enthusiastic about the theatre, and made his first film appearance at the age of ten. Dancing on roller skates in An American in Paris. Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (sometimes written MacDowall) (September 17, 1928-October 3, 1998) was a British actor. Dancing with a mop, a squeaky floorboard and a newspaper in Summer Stock. Singing and dancing in the rain in a much-parodied scene from the film Singin' in the Rain.

Patricia Ward (1990–1996). Jeanne Coyne (1960–1973) (two children, Bridget and Tim). Betsy Blair (1940–1957) (one child, Kerry). Xanadu (1980) - final film in which Kelly danced.

This was the second and last time Kelly and Astaire danced together on film. That's Entertainment Part II (1976) - also directed. That's Entertainment! (1974). Hello, Dolly (1969) - Directorial and choreography credits.

The Young Girls Of Rochefort, (1967). What a Way to Go! (1964). Inherit the Wind (1960). Les Girls (1957) - Kelly's final film at MGM Studio.

Invitation to the Dance (1956). Brigadoon (1954). Singin' in the Rain (1952). An American in Paris (1951) - (Academy Award, special achievement, choreography).

Summer Stock (1950) - Judy Garland's final film at MGM Studio. In addition, directorial debut. On the Town (1949) - First musical film to be shot on location. The Pirate (1948).

Ziegfeld Follies - First of two films in which Kelly and Fred Astaire danced together. Anchors Aweigh (1945) - Included number combining live-action and animation, performed by Kelly and Jerry the mouse of Tom and Jerry. Cover Girl (1944) - Kelly danced with himself through trick photography. DuBarry Was a Lady (1943).

For Me and My Gal (1942).