Gower Champion

Known for ActingBorn 1921-06-22Died 1980-08-25Geneva, 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, 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).Read more

Movies & web series

The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries

The Bell Telephone Hour

42nd Street

That's Entertainment, Part II

What's My Line?

Startime

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Merv Griffin Show

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

Rhapsody in Blue

Mr. Music

Show Boat

The All-Star Christmas Show

Three for the Show

Everything I Have Is Yours

My Six Loves

Words and Music

Till the Clouds Roll By

The Bank Shot

Lovely to Look At

Give a Girl a Break

42nd Street

Jupiter's Darling

Once Upon a Honeymoon

The Girl Most Likely

Forty-five Minutes from Broadway

What Day Is It?

Tony Awards

The Admiral Broadway Revue