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
- 2049
- Yes Sir, That's My Baby
- William Waldo Winfield
- 2049
- Francis
- Peter Stirling
- 2048
- Are You with It?
- Milton Haskins
- 2048
- Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
- Wilbur McMurty
- 2047
- Something in the Wind
- Charlie Read
- 1964
- Petticoat Junction: The Ladybugs
- Director









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