Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz;  May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.

 In Daddy Long Legs.

 

Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire". Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev; Sammy Davis, Jr.; Michael Jackson; Gregory Hines; Mikhail Baryshnikov; George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.

• 1938 — Invited to place his hand and foot prints in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.
• 1950 — Ginger Rogers presented an honorary Academy Award to Astaire "for his unique artistry and his contributions to the technique of musical pictures".

Astaire's hand and foot prints at Grauman's Chinese Theater

• 1950 — Golden Globe for "Best Motion Picture Actor -Music/Comedy" for Three Little Words
• 1958 — Emmy Award for "Best Single Performance by an Actor" for An Evening with Fred Astaire
• 1959 — Dance Magazine award
• 1960 — Nominated for Emmy Award for "Program Achievement" for Another Evening with Fred Astaire
• 1960 — Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for "Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures"
• 1961 — Emmy Award for "Program Achievement" in 1961 for Astaire Time
• 1961 — Voted Champion of Champions — Best Television performer in annual television critics and columnists poll conducted by Television Today and Motion Picture Daily
• 1965 — The George Award from the George Eastman House for "outstanding contributions to motion pictures"
• 1968 — Nominated for an Emmy Award for Musical Variety Program for The Fred Astaire Show
• 1972 — Named Musical Comedy Star of the Century by Liberty, "The Nostalgia Magazine".
• 1973 — Subject of a Gala by the Film Society of Lincoln Center
• 1975 — Academy Award nomination for The Towering Inferno
• 1975 — Golden Globe for "Best Supporting Actor", BAFTA and David di Donatello awards for The Towering Inferno

Plaque honoring Astaire in Lismore

• 1978 — Emmy Award for "Best Actor — Drama or Comedy Special" for A Family Upside Down
• 1978 — Honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
• 1978 — First recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors
• 1978 — National Artist Award from the American National Theatre Association for "contributing immeasurably to the American Theatre"
• 1981 — The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute
• 1982 — The Anglo-American Contemporary Dance Foundation announces the Astaire Awards "to honor Fred Astaire and his sister Adele and to reward the achievement of an outstanding dancer or dancers". The awards have since been renamed The Fred and Adele Astaire Awards
• 1987 — The Capezio Dance Shoe Award (co-awarded with Rudolph Nureyev)
• 1987 — Inducted into the National Museum of Dance C.V. Whitney Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York
• 1989 — Posthumous award of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1991 — Posthumous induction into the Ballroom Dancer's Hall of Fame
• 2000 — Ava Astaire McKenzie unveils a plaque in honor of her father, erected by the citizens of Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland
• 2008 — Conference to honor the life and work of Fred Astaire at Oriel College, University of Oxford, June 21–24

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