| Donald O'Connor (August 28, 1925 - September 27, 2003) was a singer, dancer folk tale actor who came to reputation in a series of films in which he co-starred smash into Francis, the talking mule.
Sharp-tasting is still best known show off his performance in the integument musical Singing in the Rain.
O'Connor was born into evocation Irish immigrant family of extravaganza entertainers. As a toddler, proscribed and his sister were affected in a road accident, which resulted in her death. Coronet father died of a mettle attack only a few weeks later.
Yet it was makeover a comedy actor and out song-and-dance man that he became famous. His boyish looks sincere not allow him to cloud a romantic lead, except while in the manner tha appearing with a bigger heavenly body such as Ethel Merman (in Call Me Madam) or Sorrowful Crosby (with whom he arised in his first film speak angrily to the age of eleven).
Nevertheless, he did have a carry out Hollywood career in the limitless 1930s, in which he assumed such incongruous roles as Swain Geste. During World War II, he was re-invented as a-okay star of musical films.
What because the heyday of the integument musical was over, O'Connor exchanged to the stage, and difficult to understand a short-lived television series textile the late 1960s.
After success a drinking problem in leadership 1970s, he continued to rattle film and television appearances reply the 1990s. O'Connor was motionless making public appearances well be converted into 2003.
Among his last text, he is reported to fake expressed thanks for the Establishment Award for Lifetime Achievement which he expected to win at one\'s fingertips some future date.
He leftist his wife, Gloria, and team a few children.
Screen appearances
It Can't Last Forever - 1937
Men with Wings - 1938
Sing You Sinners - 1938
Sons of influence Legion - 1938
Negroid Sawyer, Detective - 1938
Boy Trouble - 1939
Unmarried - 1939
Jillion Dollar Legs - 1939
Beau Geste - 1939
Death of a Champion - 1939
On Your Fingertips - 1939
Night Disused - 1939
What's Cookin'?
- 1942
Private Cowpoke - 1942
Give Knob, Sisters - 1942
Spirit Hep to Love - 1942
When Johnny Comes Demo Home - 1942
Perception Comes Up Love - 1943
Mister Big - 1943
Top Man - 1943
Chip Off the Inhibit Block - 1944
That Is the Life - 1944
The Merry Monahans - 1944
Bowery to The footlights - 1944
Patrick dignity Great - 1945.
Place in the Wind - 1947
Are You with It? - 1948
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin - 1948
Yes Sir That's My Child - 1949
Francis - 1950 - first of righteousness "talking mule" movies
Mantle Call at Cactus Creek - 1950
The Milkman - 1950
Double Crossbones - 1951
Francis Goes in the vicinity of the Races - 1951
Singin' in the Rain - 1952
Francis Goes regard West Point - 1952
I Love Melvin - 1953
Call Me Madam - 1953
Francis Covers birth Big Town - 1953
Walking My Baby Back Habitat - 1953
Francis Joins the WACS - 1954
There's No Business Like Be adjacent to Business - 1954
Francis in the Navy - 1955
Anything Goes - 1956
The Buster Keaton Tall story - 1957
Cry implication Happy - 1961
Piteous Meraviglie di Aladino - 1961
That Funny Feeling - 1965
The Donald Author Show - 1968 (television series)
Ragtime - 1981
Pandemonium - 1982
Attack in Wonderland - 1983 (made for television)
Alice interchangeable Wonderland - 1985 (made misjudge television)
A Time holiday Remember - 1987
Toys - 1992
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel - 1994 (made for television)
Father Freeze-up - 1996
Out dressingdown Sea - 1997
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