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Fred Astaire

1899 - 1987

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Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz, May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as the "greatest popular-music dancer of all time". He received an Honorary Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award. As a dancer, he was known for his uncanny sense of rhythm, creativity, effortless presentation, and tireless perfectionism, which was sometimes a burden to co-workers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fred Astaire is the 213th most popular actor (down from 174th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from United States (down from 350th in 2019) and the 109th most popular American Actor.

Fred Astaire is most famous for his dancing skills. He was born in 1899 and died in 1987. He was a dancer and actor who appeared in many musicals with Ginger Rogers.

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Among actors, Fred Astaire ranks 213 out of 13,578. Before him are Julia Roberts, Sidney Poitier, Anita Ekberg, David Prowse, Faye Dunaway, and John Saxon. After him are Eddie Fisher, Silvana Mangano, Gene Kelly, Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, and Daniel Day-Lewis.

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Among people born in 1899, Fred Astaire ranks 19. Before him are Macfarlane Burnet, Francis Poulenc, Paul-Henri Spaak, László Bíró, Albert Claude, and Iskander Mirza. After him are Paul Hermann Müller, Erich Kästner, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Béla Guttmann, Georg von Békésy, and Max Theiler. Among people deceased in 1987, Fred Astaire ranks 11. Before him are Carl Rogers, Primo Levi, Lee Byung-chul, John Howard Northrop, Rita Hayworth, and Andrey Kolmogorov. After him are Walter Houser Brattain, Gunnar Myrdal, Marguerite Yourcenar, William Stuart-Houston, William P. Murphy, and Thomas Sankara.

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Among people born in United States, Fred Astaire ranks 499 out of 20,380. Before him are Frank Lucas (1930), Jefferson Davis (1808), Aaron T. Beck (1921), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Cliff Burton (1962), and Rutherford B. Hayes (1822). After him are Eddie Fisher (1928), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), John Tyler (1790), Miles Davis (1926), Theodore William Richards (1868), and Gene Kelly (1912).

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Among actors born in United States, Fred Astaire ranks 109. Before him are Chris Cooper (1951), Sandra Bullock (1964), Julia Roberts (1967), Sidney Poitier (1927), Faye Dunaway (1941), and John Saxon (1935). After him are Eddie Fisher (1928), Gene Kelly (1912), Jessica Lange (1949), John Lithgow (1945), Marsha Hunt (1917), and Christopher Walken (1943).

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