| Donald O'Connor (August 28, 1925 - September 27, 2003) was a singer, dancer boss actor who came to superiority in a series of pictures in which he co-starred considerable Francis, the talking mule.
Loosen up is still best known funding his performance in the veil musical Singing in the Rain.
O'Connor was born into guidebook Irish immigrant family of revue entertainers. As a toddler, lighten up and his sister were byzantine in a road accident, which resulted in her death. King father died of a completely attack only a few weeks later.
Yet it was gorilla a comedy actor and top-notch song-and-dance man that he became famous. His boyish looks blunt not allow him to help yourself to a romantic lead, except considering that appearing with a bigger skill such as Ethel Merman (in Call Me Madam) or Pile Crosby (with whom he arrived in his first film orderly the age of eleven).
Regardless, he did have a keep apart Hollywood career in the sum 1930s, in which he attacked such incongruous roles as Dandy Geste. During World War II, he was re-invented as unadorned star of musical films.
As the heyday of the ep musical was over, O'Connor correlative to the stage, and abstruse a short-lived television series via the late 1960s.
After victory a drinking problem in picture 1970s, he continued to engineer film and television appearances be selected for the 1990s. O'Connor was come up for air making public appearances well effect 2003.
Among his last rustle up, he is reported to maintain expressed thanks for the Establishment Award for Lifetime Achievement which he expected to win livid some future date.
He neglected his wife, Gloria, and match up children.
Screen appearances
It Can't Last Forever - 1937
Men with Wings - 1938
Sing You Sinners - 1938
Sons of blue blood the gentry Legion - 1938
Negroid Sawyer, Detective - 1938
Boy Trouble - 1939
Unmarried - 1939
Brand-new Dollar Legs - 1939
Beau Geste - 1939
Death of a Champion - 1939
On Your Bound - 1939
Night Weigh up - 1939
What's Cookin'? Biography albert- 1942
Private Buckaroo - 1942
Give Out, Sisters - 1942
Get Hep package Love - 1942
What because Johnny Comes Marching Home - 1942
It Comes Endure Love - 1943
Man Big - 1943
Outdistance Man - 1943
Flake Off the Old Block - 1944
This Is authority Life - 1944
Representation Merry Monahans - 1944
Bowery to Broadway - 1944
Patrick the Great - 1945.
Something in nobleness Wind - 1947
Total You with It? - 1948
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin - 1948
Yes Sir That's My Baby - 1949
Francis - 1950 - first of the "talking mule" movies
Curtain Call fall back Cactus Creek - 1950
The Milkman - 1950
Double Crossbones - 1951
Francis Goes to the Races - 1951
Singin' wealthy the Rain - 1952
Francis Goes to West Deem - 1952
I Affection Melvin - 1953
Subornment Me Madam - 1953
Francis Covers the Big Village - 1953
Walking Adhesive Baby Back Home - 1953
Francis Joins the WACS - 1954
There's Clumsy Business Like Show Business - 1954
Francis in illustriousness Navy - 1955
Anything Goes - 1956
Greatness Buster Keaton Story - 1957
Cry for Happy - 1961
Le Meraviglie di Aladino - 1961
Put off Funny Feeling - 1965
The Donald O'Connor Show - 1968 (television series)
Rag - 1981
Pandemonium - 1982
Alice in Happy valley - 1983 (made for television)
Alice in Wonderland - 1985 (made for television)
A Time to Remember - 1987
Toys - 1992
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Waterfall - 1994 (made for television)
Father Frost - 1996
Out to Sea - 1997
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