Donald O'Connor
Donald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. He is best known today for his role in Singin' in the Rain.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2819 |
| Birthday | 1925-08-28 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor, دونالد اوکانر, |
1952
Singin' in the Rain
8.133/3485
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to...
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Singin' in the Rain
1954
There's No Business Like Show Business
6.131/107
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Youngest son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fa...
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There's No Business Like Show Business
1992
Toys
5.292/583
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the op...
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Toys
1981
Ragtime
7.011/185
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...
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Ragtime
1937
It Can't Last Forever
6.5/4
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspap...
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It Can't Last Forever
1944
Follow the Boys
5.727/11
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical...
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Follow the Boys
1939
Beau Geste
6.972/109
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned...
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Beau Geste
1950
Francis
5.786/28
During World War II, a junior American Army officer, Lt. Peter Stirling, gets sent to the psychiatric ward whenever he insists that an Army mule named...
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Francis
1955
Francis in the Navy
5.6/25
In the U. S. Army intelligence office, bumbling lieutenant Peter Stirling receives a coded message from his friend, Francis, a talking mule. The note...
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Francis in the Navy
1965
That Funny Feeling
6.283/23
Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford. Embarrassed about bringing him b...
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That Funny Feeling
1947
Something in the Wind
7/9
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
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Something in the Wind
1956
Anything Goes
6.025/20
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female...
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Anything Goes
1953
Call Me Madam
6.24/25
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
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Call Me Madam
1997
Out to Sea
5.847/118
Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they ar...
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Out to Sea
1953
I Love Melvin
6.2/27
Melvin Hoover, a budding photographer for Look magazine, accidentally bumps into a young actress named Judy LeRoy in the park. They start to talk, and...
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I Love Melvin
1951
Francis Goes to the Races
6.643/14
In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They...
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Francis Goes to the Races
1994
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
4.808/13
Bandit (Brian Bloom) gets an unexpected and unwelcome visit from his eccentric Uncle Cyrus.
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Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
1951
Double Crossbones
5.938/8
Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on t...
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Double Crossbones
1953
Francis Covers the Big Town
5.2/9
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
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Francis Covers the Big Town
1952
Francis Goes to West Point
5.846/13
Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.
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Francis Goes to West Point
1954
Francis Joins the WACS
6.143/14
Peter Stirling (with his old friend the talking mule) is recalled to active duty...in the WACs!
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Francis Joins the WACS
1939
On Your Toes
4.5/5
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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On Your Toes
1942
Get Hep to Love
7/2
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
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Get Hep to Love
1948
Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
7.333/3
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
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Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'
1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
6/3
Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC.
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1938
Sing, You Sinners
7.143/7
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thin...
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Sing, You Sinners
1961
Cry for Happy
5.625/8
Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.
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Cry for Happy
1950
The Milkman
8/2
A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.
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The Milkman
1957
The Buster Keaton Story
5.222/9
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
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The Buster Keaton Story
1945
Patrick the Great
6.5/2
A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.
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Patrick the Great
1950
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
6.4/5
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
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Curtain Call at Cactus Creek
1943
Mister Big
3.833/3
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
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Mister Big
1944
The Merry Monahans
5.333/6
The film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan. Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself...
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The Merry Monahans
1953
Walking My Baby Back Home
9/2
A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.
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Walking My Baby Back Home
1939
Boy Trouble
6/5
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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Boy Trouble
1938
Men with Wings
5.4/5
Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....
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Men with Wings
1943
Top Man
9/1
In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of lo...
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Top Man
1938
Sons of the Legion
7.5/2
Sons of The Legion is a film about a group of young men looking to start a squadron in their Legion Post. However, because the boy's father wrongfully...
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Sons of the Legion
1938
Tom Sawyer, Detective
5.6/5
The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn.
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Tom Sawyer, Detective
1943
It Comes Up Love
4.25/4
This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a...
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It Comes Up Love
1983
Alice in Wonderland
6.8/6
From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
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Alice in Wonderland
1944
Chip Off the Old Block
7/2
The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.
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Chip Off the Old Block
2005
Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
0/0
Documentary on the 1953 musical "The Band Wagon."
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Get Aboard! 'The Band Wagon'
1961
The Wonders of Aladdin
5.25/18
Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.
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The Wonders of Aladdin
1937
Melody for Two
7/1
A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.
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Melody for Two
1974
That's Entertainment!
7.356/66
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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That's Entertainment!
1949
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
6/2
At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.
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Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1987
A Mouse, a Mystery and Me
6/1
A Christmas special about a world-class mystery-writing mouse who spends Christmas Eve with his sleuthing partners tracking down a missing Santa. The...
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A Mouse, a Mystery and Me
1944
This Is the Life
6/3
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice tra...
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This Is the Life
1985
Night of 100 Stars II
8/4
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...
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Night of 100 Stars II
1939
Unmarried
4.75/4
Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and rai...
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Unmarried
1996
Father Frost
10/1
Ruled by the all powerful Father Frost, the Forest of Enchantment is the most bizarre and remarkable place in the world! Natalie and Ivan's newlywed h...
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Father Frost
1939
Million Dollar Legs
6/2
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get...
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Million Dollar Legs
1942
What's Cookin'?
7/3
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the c...
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What's Cookin'?
1942
Give Out, Sisters
6/3
The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a fina...
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Give Out, Sisters
1942
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
7/2
By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero...
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When Johnny Comes Marching Home
1942
Private Buckaroo
5.045/11
A rebellious young inductee has trouble toeing the line until he meets a retired officer's lovely daughter. James and his band are also drafted and de...
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Private Buckaroo
1944
Bowery to Broadway
10/1
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erup...
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Bowery to Broadway
1982
Pandemonium
4.672/29
A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of...
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Pandemonium
2002
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
7.75/8
American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and develop...
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Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
1994
That's Entertainment! III
7.026/38
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to G...
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That's Entertainment! III
1987
A Time to Remember
7/2
It is small town America in the 1950's. Twelve year-old Angelo Villano has one dream: to someday sing like his idol, Mario Lanza. His grandmother, Mam...
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A Time to Remember
2002
What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
7/1
Movie and stage icon Debbie Reynolds hosts the making of "Singin' in the Rain". The short documentary includes Donald O'Connor, who played the comical...
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What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain'
1948
Are You With It?
4.5/6
Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company when he discovers he made a mistake, a...
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Are You With It?
1980
Lucy Moves to NBC
3.333/3
Contacted by Fred Silverman, the President of NBC, Lucille Ball accepts to go back to work as a producer. With the help of her faithful production ass...
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Lucy Moves to NBC
1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
7/40
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
1939
Night Work
8.5/2
The Fitch family is managing an apartment building when the grandfather of their adopted son Butch decides the family isn't worthy of raising his gran...
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Night Work
2014
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
7/2
Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in w...
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Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
1976
It's Showtime
7.5/2
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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It's Showtime
1939
Death of a Champion
7/1
Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclop...
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Death of a Champion
1985
That's Dancing!
7.075/20
A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from its origins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30...
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That's Dancing!
1978
The Big Fix
5.769/39
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is re...
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The Big Fix
1975
The Lion Roars Again
8/1
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.
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The Lion Roars Again
2000
Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
9/1
Documentary explores that his of the famous Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Opened on May 18, 1927 as Grauman's Chinese Theater, it immediately drew att...
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Hollywood at Your Feet: The Story of the Chinese Theatre Footprints
1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
6/7
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
2005
Pioneers of Primetime
0/0
An in-depth look at the early days of television and its first stars.
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Pioneers of Primetime
2022
Becoming Marilyn
7.6/19
The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discovery, from anonymity to stardom: the painful birth o...
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Becoming Marilyn
1963
Marilyn
7.5/2
This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films,...
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Marilyn
1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
0/0
Bob's favorite memories and funniest moments on TV The biggest Stars! ... The biggest laughs! On DVD for the first time, this special 90 minute coll...
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