Fred Astaire

Date of birth:
1899
Date of death:
1987
Mini Bio:
Fred Astaire was an American Academy Award-winning film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made 10 films. George Balanchine and Rudolph Nureyev rated him the greatest dancer of the 20th century, and he is generally acknowledged to have been the most influential dancer in the history of film and television musicals.