Gower Champion
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 22, 1921
- Place of birth
- Geneva, Illinois, USA
- Died
- August 25, 1980
Biography
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).
Movies with Gower Champion
- Show Boat 1951 · ★ 6.2
- That's Entertainment, Part II 1976 · ★ 7.0
- Till the Clouds Roll By 1946 · ★ 5.8
- Words and Music 1948 · ★ 5.9
- Give a Girl a Break 1953 · ★ 5.4
- Rhapsody in Blue 1945 · ★ 6.6
- Lovely to Look At 1952 · ★ 5.7
- Jupiter's Darling 1955 · ★ 4.8
- Three for the Show 1955 · ★ 5.9
- Everything I Have Is Yours 1952 · ★ 5.8
- Mr. Music 1950 · ★ 6.5
- 42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage 2006 · ★ 6.0
- The All-Star Christmas Show 1958 · ★ 6.0
- What Day Is It? 1956
Movies directed by Gower Champion
- The Bank Shot 1974 · ★ 5.4
- My Six Loves 1963 · ★ 5.7
- Once Upon a Honeymoon 1956 · ★ 4.6
- What Day Is It? 1956
- Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway 1959