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Gene Kelly

Highest Rated:
100% That's Entertainment (1974)
Lowest Rated:
0% What a Way to Go! (1964)
Birthday:
Aug 23, 1912
Birthplace:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Bio:
Along with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly was the most successful song-and-dance man in film history, a towering figure in the development and enduring success of the movie musical. Born August 23, 1912, in Pittsburgh, PA, he initially studied economics, funding his education by working alternately as a…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%
Number of Movies: 62
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 Take Me Out to the Ballgame
  • Actor
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2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: The 1950s
  • Actor
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2007 Essential Classic Musicals
  • Director
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2003 The Great American Songbook
  • Actor
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2002 Gene Kelly - Anatomy of a Dancer
  • Actor
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2000 A Bing Crosby Christmas
  • Actor
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1998 Bing Crosby Christmas
  • Actor
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1994 100% That's Entertainment! III
  • Host
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1990 You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
  • Actor
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1987 American Treasure: A Smithsonian Journey
  • Actor
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1985 A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - Gene Kelly
  • Actor
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1985 That's Dancing!
  • Host
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1985 Sins
  • Actor
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1982 The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
  • Actor
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1981 A.F.I. Life Achievement Awards - Fred Astaire
  • Actor
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1980 41% Xanadu
  • Danny McGuire
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1977 Viva Knievel
  • Will Atkins
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1976 That's Entertainment 2
  • Host
  • Director
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1974 100% That's Entertainment
  • Narrator
  • Director
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1973 40 Carats
  • Billy Boylan
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1970 The Cheyenne Social Club
  • Director
  • Producer
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1969 53% Hello, Dolly!
  • Director
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1969 97% The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort)
  • Actor
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1967 Jack and the Beanstalk
  • Director
  • Actor
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1967 67% A Guide for the Married Man
  • Director
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1964 0% What a Way to Go!
  • Jerry Benson
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1962 Gigot
  • Director
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1960 91% Inherit the Wind
  • E.K. Hornbeck
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1960 67% Let's Make Love
  • Himself
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1958 The Tunnel of Love
  • Director
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1958 Marjorie Morningstar
  • Noel Airman
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1957 The Happy Road
  • Producer
  • Director
  • Mike Andrews
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1957 100% Les Girls
  • Barry Nichols
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1956 Invitation to the Dance
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
  • Actor
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1955 86% It's Always Fair Weather
  • Ted Riley
  • Director
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1954 82% Brigadoon
  • Tommy Albright
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1954 Deep in My Heart
  • Actor
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1952 100% Singin' in the Rain
  • Don Lockwood
  • Director
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1952 The Devil Makes Three
  • Captain Jeff Eliot
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1952 Love Is Better Than Ever (The Light Fantastic)
  • Guest Star
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1951 98% An American in Paris
  • Jerry Mulligan
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1950 Summer Stock
  • Joe D. Ross
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1950 Black Hand
  • Johnny Columbo
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1950 It's a Big Country
  • Icarus Xenophon
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1949 94% On the Town
  • Gabey
  • Director
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1949 92% Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  • Eddie O'Brien
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1948 Words and Music
  • Actor
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1948 Words and Music
  • Himself
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1948 71% The Three Musketeers
  • D'Artagnan
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1948 71% The Pirate
  • Serafin
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1947 Living in a Big Way
  • Leo Gogarty
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1946 75% Ziegfeld Follies
  • Gene Kelly
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1945 67% Anchors Aweigh
  • Joseph Brady
  • Director
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1944 Christmas Holiday
  • Robert Monette
  • Director
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1944 89% Cover Girl
  • Danny McGuire
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1943 Du Barry Was a Lady (Gentleman's Choice)
  • Alec Howe/Black Arrow
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1943 The Cross of Lorraine
  • Victor La Biche
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1943 Pilot #5
  • Actor
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1943 DuBarry Was a Lady
  • Actor
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1943 Thousands Cheer
  • Eddie Marsh
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1942 100% For Me And My Gal
  • Harry Palmer
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USS Franklin: The Ship That Wouldn't Die
  • Actor
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Gene Kelly Trivia

While filming the famous rain scene in "Singin' in the Rain", he had a fever of 103 degrees.
- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (18 months ago)
One of his personal quotes: "If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando."
- submitted by Lindsay Elizabeth M (18 months ago)

Quotes from Gene Kelly's Characters

    1. Tommy Albright: [miserable] Why do you have to *lose* something, to find out what it *really* means?
    From Brigadoon. Submitted by Francis L (4 days ago)
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