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Real Name: Frederick Austerlitz
Birthday: 05/10/1899
Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Occupation: Actor
Sign: Taurus
Death date: 06/22/1987
Death reason: Pneumonia

Fred Astaire was an American Academy Award-winning film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films. He is rated the greatest dancer of the twentieth century, and he is generally acknowledged to have been the most influential dancer in the history of film and television musicals. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the ...

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Fred Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Johanna "Ann" and Frederic "Fritz" Austerlitz. When his father became suddenly unemployed, the family moved to New York City to launch the show business career of the children. Adele (his sister) and Fred had a teasing rivalry but fortunately they quickly acknowledged their individual strengths — his being durability and hers greater overall talent. "Astaire" was a name taken by him and his sister in 1905, when they were taking...

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