Director

Gower Champion

Acting

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 118222

IMDb ID: nm0150706

Known for: Acting

Born: June 22, 1921

Died: August 25, 1980

Age: 59

Place of birth: Geneva, Illinois, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1945 - 2019

Years active: 75

Average TMDB rating: 6.32

Wikidata: Q3112833

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Director (2)Choreographer (4)Musical (1)

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Biography

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).

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