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Gower Champion
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, Illino…
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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).
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2019
42nd Street
Movie Choreographer
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2006
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1986
42nd Street
Movie Choreographer
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1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage)
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1974
The Bank Shot
Movie Director
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1963
My Six Loves
Movie Director
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1962
The Merv Griffin Show
TV show Self
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1960
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
TV show Director
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1959
Startime
TV show Director
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1959
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
Movie Director
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1959
The Bell Telephone Hour
TV show Self
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1958
The All-Star Christmas Show
Movie Self
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1958
The Girl Most Likely
Movie Choreographer
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1956
What Day Is It?
Movie Conroy Gregory
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1956
Tony Awards
TV show Self - Presenter
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1956
Once Upon a Honeymoon
Movie Director
More credits
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1955
Three for the Show
Movie Vernon Lowndes
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1955
Jupiter's Darling
Movie Varius
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1953
Give a Girl a Break
Movie Ted Sturgis
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1952
Everything I Have Is Yours
Movie Chuck Hubbard
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1952
Lovely to Look At
Movie Jerry Ralby
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1951
Show Boat
Movie Frank Schultz
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1950
Mr. Music
Movie Gower Champion
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self
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1949
The Admiral Broadway Revue
TV show
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1948
Words and Music
Movie Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV show Self
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1946
Till the Clouds Roll By
Movie Dance Specialty
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1945
Rhapsody in Blue
Movie Tap Dancer at Remick's (uncredited)
