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George Chakiris
Birthday: 16 September 1934

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for George Chakiris. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@CelebMart.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

He made his film debut at the age of 12 singing in the chorus of Song of Love (1947). Following his graduation from high school, George Chakiris supported his night-time dancing, singing and dramatic lessons with a daytime job clerking in a Los Angeles Department store. Later he started his acting/dancing career appearing in musicals such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - he is one of the ballet dancers escorting Marylin Monroe in "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friends"- White Christmas (1954), The Girl Rush (1954), There Is No Business Like Show Business (1954), Brigadoon (1954), and Meet Me In Las Vegas (1956). In 1957 he made his debut as a dramatic actor in Under Fire . In 1958, he traveled to New York hoping for a broadway "break". Hearing that Jerome Robbins was casting the London company of West Side Story, he auditioned and was awarded the co-starring role of Riff. He played the part of Riff for almost two years on the West End stage before acting, singing and dancing as Bernardo in the Robert Wise ffilm (1961), a performance that earned him a Golden Globe and the Academy Award for best supporting actor (Santa Monica, April 9, 1962). Since then, he starred in a succession of films, including Diamond Head with Charlton Heston (1962), La Ragazza Di Bube with Claudia Cardinale (1963), Les Demoiselles de Rochefort with Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac and Gene Kelly (1967), The Big Cube with Lana Turner (1969), Why not stay for breakfast (1980), Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982), Pale Blood (1991). He is one of the most traveled stars in motion pictures : the locations have included Hawaii, Japan, Mexico, Italy, England, Spain and France. His nightclub career was launched to rave reviews at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and Harrah's Club in Lake Tahoe. In the 70s and 80s, his career focused on television and music. He appeared as guest star in several TV series such as Five-O (Death is a Company policy - 1972), The Return of Wonder Woman (Death in Disguise - 1978), CHiPs (Fox Trap - 1983), Scarecrow and Mrs King (Lost and Found - 1984), Murder She Wrote (Weave a Tangled Web - 1989) and joined the cast of Dallas (1985 - 1986). He has released several records : George Chakiris, Memories Are Made Of These, The Gershwin Song Book, West Side Story's Dynamic... Recently, George Chakiris appeared in a several plays and stage musicals : after "The King and I " in the US in 1995, he performed in Britain the role of Rochester in "Jane Eyre".

Biography courtesy of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).

Movie Credits
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Bourne to Dance (2001)
Rudolf Nureyev ] 
Demoiselles ont eu 25 ans, Les (1993)
Pale Blood (1990)
Wings Hauser ] 
Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again (1982)
Why Not Stay for Breakfast? (1979)
Return to Fantasy Island (Made for TV) (1978)
George Maharis ] 
Kiss Me and Die (Made for TV) (1974)
Big Cube, The (1969)
Sharon vestida de rojo (1968)
Rouble à deux faces, Le (1968)
Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les (1967)
Kismet (Made for TV) (1967)
Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)
Alain Delon ] [ Anthony Perkins ] 
Ladro della Gioconda, Il (1966)
High Bright Sun, The (1965)
633 Squadron (1964)
Cliff Robertson ] 
Flight from Ashiya (1964)
Yul Brynner ] 
Kings of the Sun (1963)
Yul Brynner ] 
Ragazza di Bube, La (1963)
Diamond Head (1962)
Charlton Heston ] 
West Side Story (1961)
Two and Two Make Six (1961)
Under Fire (1957)
Nick Nolte ] [ Ed Harris ] [ Gene Hackman ] 
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Girl Rush, The (1955)
Eddie Albert ] 
Brigadoon (1954)
White Christmas (1954)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Johnnie Ray ] 
Second Chance (1953)
Jack Palance ] 
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., The (1953)
Give a Girl a Break (1953)
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)
Great Caruso, The (1951)
Song of Love (1947)

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