Fred Astaire's biography

Fred Astaire is 88 years old film actor born at Omaha. He was born on Wednesday 10th of May 1899. According to year of birth 1899 he belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 10th of May means he is Taurus. Taurus is most stable sign of Zodiac, that is the reason it is also included in the earthy sign of the Zodiac Belt. One born with this Moon Sign (Not a Rising Sign) is very stable and balanced through their mind.He was married 2 times.

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be film actor. You can know him also as choreographer, singer, dancer, film producer, musician, screenwriter, stage actor, voice actor, television presenter, television actor. He is recently known as recording artist.

Fred Astaire's dad

Fred Astaire's father's name is Fritz Austerlitz.

Fred Astaire's mom

Fred Astaire's mother's name is Ann Astaire.

Fred Astaire's family

Fred Astaire's ex spouses

Robyn Smith

Fred Astaire and Robyn Smith have been together since 1980 for 7 years. She is known as jockey. His ex spouse was born on Monday 14th of August 1944 in San Francisco.

Phyllis Livingston Potter

Fred Astaire and Phyllis Livingston Potter have been together since 1933 for 21 years.

Fred Astaire's career

His main focus is to be film actor. You could see him also in Three Little Words, An Evening with Fred Astaire, The Towering Inferno, The Astaire Story, A Family Upside Down and many more. He is also a member of American Theatre Hall of Fame.

How did Fred Astaire die

He died on on Monday 22nd of June 1987 when he was 88 years old at Los Angeles. Fred Astaires death was caused by pneumonia. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Fred Astaire's Awards

He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Three Little Words in 1950
He received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for work An Evening with Fred Astaire in 1959
He received award for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for work The Towering Inferno in 1976
He received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for work The Towering Inferno in 1974
He received award for Grammy Hall of Fame for work The Astaire Story in 1998
He received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for work An Evening with Fred Astaire in 1959
He received award for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for work A Family Upside Down in 1978

Fred Astaire's Rankings

Ranked #73 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

Fred Astaire's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for work The Towering Inferno in 1974
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Three Little Words in 1950
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for work On the Beach in 1959
He was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for work An Evening with Fred Astaire in 1959
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work The Pleasure of His Company in 1961
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for work Finian's Rainbow in 1968
He was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for work The Towering Inferno in 1974
He was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for work The Towering Inferno in 1976

What Fred Astaire has done for a first time

The evaluation of Astaire's first screen test: "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little."
First met lifelong best friend Irving Berlin on the set of Top Hat (1935).
He was one of the first Kennedy Center Honorees in 1978.
Wore his trademark top hat and tails in his very first movie appearance, Dancing Lady (1933).
Became a father for the first time at age 36 when his first wife Phyllis Potter gave birth to their son Fred Astaire Jr. on January 21, 1936.
Became a father for the second time at age 42 when his first wife Phyllis Potter gave birth to their daughter Ava Astaire-McKenzie on March 28, 1942.
First wife Phyllis Potter (nÃ©e Phyllis Livingston Baker) passed away from lung cancer at age 46 while Astaire was filming Daddy Long Legs (1955).
He was stepfather to Eliphalet IV (known as Peter), the son of his first wife, Phyllis, and her first husband, Eliphalet Nott Potter III.
He first saw Robyn Smith, who would become his second wife, when she was a jockey in a horserace.

Fred Astaire's quotes

[on modern movies] They tend to overdo the vulgarity. I'm not embarrassed by the language itself, but it's embarrassing to be listening to it, sitting next to perfect strangers.
Of course, [Ginger Rogers] was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.
I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.
People think I was born in top hat and tails.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.
[on his screen partnership with Ginger Rogers] Ginger was brilliantly effective. She made everything work for her. Actually, she made things very fine for the both of us and she deserves most of the credit for our success.
I suppose I made it look easy, but gee whiz, did I work and worry.
Dancing is a sweat job.
[to Jack Lemmon] You're at a level where you can only afford one mistake. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you're allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
I have no desire to prove anything by it [dancing]. I never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
[on John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (1977)] He's not a dancer. What he did in those dance scenes was very attractive but he is basically not a dancer. I was dancing like that years ago, you know. Disco is just jitterbug.
[on Ginger Rogers] She may have faked a little, but we knew we had a good thing going.
[on tap dancer Eleanor Powell] Eleanor was an out-and-out dancer. She danced like a man. She slammed the floor and did it great and that's fine and suddenly she's on her toes in the ballet sequence -- it did look kinda funny.
[on Rita Hayworth] A great dancer but a different style to me.
[on Judy Garland] She was just simply wonderful. She danced beautifully, learned beautifully. She was very adept at whatever she did. Really in fine form. We were all set to do another picture together, but she got sick and that was the end of that.
[on actress/dancer Leslie Caron] A ballet dancer really, but technically good. I called her the sergeant major.
[on Gene Kelly] You know, that Kelly, he's just terrific. That's all there is to it. He dances like crazy, he directs like crazy. I adore this guy. I really am crazy about his work.
(on dancing partner Cyd Charisse) When you dance with her, you stay danced.
[on joining the cast of The Towering Inferno (1974)] It's a fun picture to make - all fire and water.
I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.
All the girls I ever danced with thought they couldn't do it. So they always cried. All except Ginger. No, no, Ginger never cried.
(On Michael Jackson) Oh God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century. I didn't want to leave this world without knowing who my descendant was. Thank you Michael.

Fred Astaire's body shape

Lets describe how Fred Astaire looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.

Fred Astaire