Actor
Gower Champion
105 years · Geneva, Illinois, USA · 16 films
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).
Best known for
Show Boat
1951 · Frank Schultz
On Public Domain Movies
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)
The Bank Shot
1974 · Director
On Philo
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 · Dance Specialty
On Plex
Words and Music
1948 · Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
On HBO Max
Rhapsody in Blue
1945 · Tap Dancer at Remick's (uncredited)
Filmography 16
42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006 · Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)
The Bank Shot
1974 · Director
On Philo
My Six Loves
1963 · Director
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
1959 · Director
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958 · Self
On Night Flight Plus
Three for the Show
1955 · Vernon Lowndes
On fuboTV
Jupiter's Darling
1955 · Varius
On TCM
Give a Girl a Break
1953 · Ted Sturgis
Everything I Have Is Yours
1952 · Chuck Hubbard
Lovely to Look At
1952 · Jerry Ralby
Show Boat
1951 · Frank Schultz
On Public Domain Movies
Mr. Music
1950 · Gower Champion
Words and Music
1948 · Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
On HBO Max
Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 · Dance Specialty
On Plex
Rhapsody in Blue
1945 · Tap Dancer at Remick's (uncredited)