Actor
Gower Champion
June 22, 1921 · Geneva, 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).
Often works with
Marge Champion
7 titles together
Show Boat, Give a Girl a Break, Lovely to Look At
Kathryn Grayson
4 titles together
Show Boat, That's Entertainment, Part II, Till the Clouds Roll By
Howard Keel
3 titles together
Show Boat, Lovely to Look At, Jupiter's Darling
Bess Flowers
3 titles together
Show Boat, Three for the Show, Mr. Music
Judy Garland
3 titles together
That's Entertainment, Part II, Till the Clouds Roll By, Words and Music
Chick Chandler
2 titles together
Show Boat, Once Upon a Honeymoon
Full filmography · 16
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
19767
The Bank Shot
Director
19745.4
My Six Loves
Director
1963Once Upon a Honeymoon
Director
1956
Three for the Show
as Vernon Lowndes
1955
Jupiter's Darling
as Varius
1955
Give a Girl a Break
as Ted Sturgis
1953
Everything I Have Is Yours
as Chuck Hubbard
1952
Lovely to Look At
as Jerry Ralby
1952
Show Boat
as Frank Schultz
19516.2
Mr. Music
as Gower Champion
1950
Words and Music
as Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
19485.8