Gene Kelly
Acting
🎂 1912-08-23
Eugene Curran Kelly 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). His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences. Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award in 1952 for his career achievements; the same year, An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors (1982) and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute. In 1999, the American Film Institute also ranked him as the 15th greatest male screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
Cast credits(130)
Self
1962
Self - Co-Host
1961
Self
1971
Self
1967
Self
1982
Self (segment)
1952
Sen. Charles Edwards
1985
Self
1953
Self
1948
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Self
1962
Self
1975
Self - Special Guest Star
1976
Host
1978
Self
1978
Self (archive footage)
2013
Don Lockwood
1952
Self
1963
Self
1973
Self (archive footage)
2022
Self (archive footage)
2014
Father Chuck O'Malley
1962
Danny McGuire
1980
Billy Boylan
1973
Self
1973
Jerry Mulligan
1951
Self - Narrator (voice)
1982
Ted Riley
1955
Self
1983
(archive footage)
1982
E.K. Hornbeck
1960
Self (archive footage)
1972
Andy Miller
1967
Pinky Benson
1964
Tommy Albright
1954
Self
1954
Gene Kelly (uncredited)
1960
Self
1988
Self
1981
D'Artagnan
1948
Self
1980
Gentleman (segment "The Babbit and the Bromide")
1945
Self (archive footage)
1976
Host / Pierrot / The Marine / Sinbad
1956
Vito S. Alessandro
1943
Self
1987
Gabey
1949
Self - Host / Narrator
1974
Icarus Xenophon
1951
Eric Hovland
1986
Robert Manette
1944
Victor
1943
Self (archive)
2009
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
1976
Joseph Brady
1945
Michael J. Andrews
1957
Self
1982
Self
1975
Self
1990
Self (archive footage)
2019
Tom T. Triplett
1951
Self
1995
Serafin
1948
Noel Airman
1958
Self - Host
1985
Gene Kelly
1948
Private Eddie Marsh
1943
(Archive Footage)
2025
Self - Co-Host / Narrator
1994
Self
1958
Self (archive footage)
2002
Self
1978
Self / Narrator (archive footage)
1998
Self
1990
Self
1979
Self
1975
Self - Host
1971
Jeff Eliot
1952
Leo Gogarty
1947
Self
1961
Performer in Dancing Around
1954
Joe D. Ross
1950
Eddie O'Brien
1949
Self (archive footage)
2005
Giovanni E. 'Johnny' Columbo
1950
Gene Kelly (uncredited)
1952
Self (archive footage)
1988
Lieutenant Bradville
1954
Self
1980
Performer in 'Ziegfeld Follies' (archive footage)
1955
Self - Actor
1955
Don Lockwood
2004
(archive footage)
2009
Self (archive footage)
1973
Joe D. Ross (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
Alec Howe / Black Arrow
1943
Danny McGuire
1944
Jeremy Keen, the Peddler
1967
(archive footage)
1944
Barry Nichols
1957
Self (Archive Footage)
2005
Will Atkins
1977
Self (archive footage)
1950
Self - Actor (archive sound)
2004
Self (archive footage)
2005
Self (archive footage)
1963
Harry Palmer
1942
Self
1982
Self
1974
Self (archive footage)
1986
Self - Guest Performer
1973
Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee (archive footage)
2025
Self (archive footage)
2000
Self
1987
Don Lockwood (voice) (archive sound)
1978
Self - Host
1977
Various Roles (archive footage)
2018
Tom T. Triplett
1957
Self (archive footage)
1993
Self
1978
Self (archive footage)
2013
Self
1965
Self (archive footage)
2003
Self - Guest
2011
Seaman Bob Lucas
1945
Self
1977
Self - Host
1961
Himself
1966
Narrator (voice)
1945
Don Lockwood (archive footage)
2006
