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Acting

Fred Astaire

Career: Active from 1933 to 2015, with a break from 1991 to 2005, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 42
top three billing

Average score: 67/100

Highest rated: Top Hat
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 47 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Fred Astaire Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.2, average 5.4
Violence
1.5, average 4.1
Psychological
3.1, average 5.5
Tension
3.6, average 5.9

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Romantic Comedy 9
Classic Hollywood Musical 7
Classic Musical 7
Golden Age Hollywood 6
Nostalgic Charm 6
Showbiz Romance 5
Classic Hollywood 5
Feel-Good 4
Musical Comedy 3
Lighthearted Entertainment 3
Family-Friendly 3
Feel-Good Entertainment 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

65

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

2 titles

La La La

as Various Roles (archive footage)

Perspectives: For the Love of Fred Astaire

as (archive footage)

2000s

3 titles

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing

as (archive footage)

Astaire and Rogers: Partners in Rhythm

as Various / Self (archive footage)

"All -Singing All-Dancing" Before And After

as Archive Footage

1990s

2 titles · average score 87

That's Entertainment! III

87

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dance Crazy in Hollywood

as Various Roles (archive footage)

1980s

3 titles · average score 62

The Purple Rose of Cairo

81

Thanks

Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

Ghost Story

42

as Ricky Hawthorne

1970s

9 titles · average score 61

The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

57

as Santa Claus

A Family Upside Down

as Ted Long

Battlestar Galactica

58

TV show · as Chameleon / Captain Dimitri

The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town

58

as S.D. Kluger (voice)

The Purple Taxi

61

as Dr. Seamus Scully

The Amazing Dobermans

49

as Daniel Hughes

The Towering Inferno

70

as Harlee Claiborne

Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

84

as S.D. Kluger (voice)

The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again

48

as The Baltimore Kid

1960s

11 titles · average score 61

Midas Run

47

as Pedley

Finian's Rainbow

47

as Finian McLonergan

It Takes a Thief

73

TV show · as Alister Mundy / Alistair Mundy (voice) (uncredited)

Omnibus

72

TV show

Paris When It Sizzles

62

Vocals

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

66

TV show · as Fred Addams

The Notorious Landlady

62

as Franklyn Ambruster

Flashing Spikes

as Narrator

The Pleasure of His Company

62

as Biddeford 'Pogo' Poole

Dr. Kildare

63

TV show · as Joe Quinlan

Astaire Time

Producer

1950s

12 titles · average score 69

On the Beach

67

as Julian Osborn

An Evening with Fred Astaire

Executive Producer

Funny Face

75

as Dick Avery

Silk Stockings

84

as Steve Canfield

Daddy Long Legs

43

as Jervis Pendleton III

MGM Parade

TV show · as Performer in 'Ziegfeld Follies' / actor 'Broadway Melody of 1940' (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Band Wagon

84

as Tony Hunter

General Electric Theater

68

TV show · as J. Willingham Bardley / Paul Ashcroft

The Belle of New York

59

as Charlie Hill

Royal Wedding

78

as Tom Bowen

Let's Dance

61

as Donald Elwood

Three Little Words

70

as Bert Kalmar

1940s

12 titles · average score 69

The Barkleys of Broadway

62

as Josh Barkley

Easter Parade

83

as Don Hewes

Blue Skies

65

as Jed Potter

Ziegfeld Follies

64

as Fred Astaire / Raffles / Tai Long / Gentleman

Yolanda and the Thief

67

as Johnny Parkson Riggs

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

The Sky's the Limit

60

as Fred Atwell (Fred Burton)

Holiday Inn

80

as Ted Hanover

You Were Never Lovelier

86

as Robert Davis

You'll Never Get Rich

71

as Robert Curtis

Second Chorus

49

as Danny O'Neill

Broadway Melody of 1940

76

as Johnny Brett

1930s

11 titles · average score 73

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

63

as Vernon Castle

Carefree

63

as Tony Flagg

Shall We Dance

83

as Petrov

A Damsel in Distress

68

as Jerry Halliday

Swing Time

83

as Lucky Garnett

Follow the Fleet

70

as Bake Baker

Top Hat

86

as Jerry Travers

Roberta

70

as Huck Haines

The Gay Divorcee

78

as Guy Holden

Flying Down to Rio

62

as Fred Ayres

Dancing Lady

74

as Fred Astaire