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HIGHLIGHTS

1985 Appeared as himself in the documentary feature, "George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey"

1980 Last acting role in a feature film, "Ghost Story"

1979 Played eight roles in the NBC holiday movie "The Man in the Santa Claus Suit"

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1985 Appeared as himself in the documentary feature, "George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey"

1980 Last acting role in a feature film, "Ghost Story"

1979 Played eight roles in the NBC holiday movie "The Man in the Santa Claus Suit"

1978 Received Emmy for dramatic performance as elderly house painter whose heart attack makes him dependent on his family in the NBC movie "A Family Upside Down"; starred opposite Helen Hayes

1977 Had featured role in "Un Taxi Mauve/The Purple Taxi"

1976 Narrated the children's animated holiday special "The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town" (ABC)

1974 Was one of the narrators for the compilation film "That's Entertainment!", a collection of MGM's great movie musical scenes

1974 Paired on screen with Jennifer Jones in the all-star "disaster" flick "The Towering Inferno"; receieved a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination

1972 Appeared in the award-winning NBC variety special "Jack Lemmon in 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin"

1970 Starred in the ABC movie sequel "The Over-the-Hill Gang Ride Again"

1970 Narrated the animated children's holiday special "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"

1968 One-shot return to musical films, "Finian's Rainbow"

1968 Starred in the NBC variety special "The Fred Astaire Show"; also produced

1961 Acted in "The Pleasure of His Company"

1960 Won Emmy Award for the NBC variety special "Astaire Time"

1959 First dramatic role, "On the Beach"

1959 Starred in the NBC variety special "Another Evening with Fred Astaire"; received Emmy nomination

1958 Appeared in "An Evening with Fred Astaire" (NBC), the first of four highly acclaimed, Emmy-winning TV specials over the span of a decade, partnering him with dancer Barrie Chase; won Emmy

1957 Made his last regular song-and-dance films, "Funny Face" and "Silk Stockings"

1953 Appeared in one of his best films, the semi-autobiographical "The Band Wagon", loosely based on the stage musical

1949 Reteamed with Ginger Rogers after an ailing Judy Garland withdrew from "The Barkleys of Broadway"

1948 Returned to films to replace an injured Gene Kelly opposite Judy Garland in "Easter Parade"

1947 Opened chain of Fred Astaire Dance Studios (date approximate)

1946 Announced retirement after box-office failure of "Yolanda and the Thief" (1945) and subsidiary role in "Blue Skies" (1946)

1944 Signed by MGM; worked on first film there, the all-star revue, "Ziegfeld Follies", which featured "The Babbitt and the Bromide", a comic dance number which paired him with Gene Kelly; Astaire had intr

1940 First film at MGM, "Broadway Melody of 1940", opposite Eleanor Powell

1939 Left RKO after last 1930s film with Rogers, "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle"

1938 After box office failure of first starring film without Rogers, "A Damsel in Distress", voted "box office poison" by motion picture exhibitors along with Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Craw

1935 - 1937 Team of Astaire and Rogers listed in annual motion picture exhibitors poll of top ten box office stars three years in a row; placed fourth, third and seventh

1934 First starring role, opposite Rogers, in "The Gay Divorcee"; introduced the Oscar-winning song "The Continental"

1933 Film debut, a small guest star part as Joan Crawford's partner in climactic production numbers of "Dancing Lady"

1933 First sizable film role and first on screen partnering with Ginger Rogers in RKO's "Flying Down to Rio"; introduced the "Carioca" dance

1932 Last Broadway and London stage show before venturing to Hollywood, "Gay Divorce" (later adapted to film as "The Gay Divorcee"), with Claire Luce as his leading lady and dance partner

1931 Last stage show in which he co-starred with his sister Adele, "The Band Wagon"

1930 Assisted in choreographing numbers for the Gershwin show "Girl Crazy", starring Ethel Merman and Ginger Rogers

1927 Acted opposite sister Adele in "Funny Face"; score by George and Ira Gershwin

1924 First formal collaboration with George and Ira Gershwin, "Lady, Be Good"; reprised roles in London

1923 London stage debut, "Stop Flirting", the retitled version of "For Goodness' Sake"

1922 Appeared in the Broadway musical "For Goodness' Sake" with a score that included songs by George Gershwin

1917 Broadway debut with Adele in "Over the Top"

1905 Began performing in vaudeville, paired with sister Adele; first act had them portray a miniature bride and groom

Made two popular films opposite Rita Hayworth at Columbia, "You'll Never Get Rich" and "You Were Never Lovelier"

Hosted and occasionally acted in "Alcoa Premiere", an anthology series aired on ABC; appeared as the Devil in six different personas in one entry entitled "Mr. Lucifer"

Had recurring role as the debonaire retired burglar Alister Mundy, father of Robert Wagner's Alexander Mundy in the ABC series "It Takes a Thief"