Donald O'Connor


Birthday: August 28, 2025

The son of a stage acrobat, American actor/dancer/singer Donald O'Connor was hoofing away as a child in his family's vaudeville act. He was discovered for films in 1938's Sing, You Sinners, spending the next few years in movies usually playing "the star as a child" -- that is, cast as the younger version of the film's leading man for prologue and flashback sequences. A 1941 Universal ...more
  • 1952
  • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com
  • Singin' in the Rain
  • win


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