
Acting
Born June 22, 1921 · Geneva, Illinois, USA
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).

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage
2006

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976

The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
What Day Is It?
1956

Three for the Show
1955

Jupiter's Darling
1955

Give a Girl a Break
1953

Everything I Have Is Yours
1952

Lovely to Look at
1952

Show Boat
1951

Mr. Music
1950

Words and Music
1948

Till the Clouds Roll By
1946

Rhapsody in Blue
1945