Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor (August , â€" September , ) was an
American actor, dancer, and singer. He came to fame in a series of
films in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan,
and Francis the Talking Mule.His best-known works came in the film
Singin' in the Rain (), for which O'Connor was awarded a Golden Globe.
He also won a Primetime Emmy Award from four nominations and received
two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame throughout his career.Though
he considered Danville, Illinois to be his hometown, O'Connor was the
th child born in St. Elizabeth Hospital in Chicago. His parents, Effie
Irene (née Crane) and John Edward "Chuck" O'Connor, were vaudeville
entertainers; she was a bareback rider and he was a circus strongman
and acrobat. His father's family was from Ireland.O'Connor later said,
"I was about months old, they tell me, when I first started dancing,
and they'd hold me up by the back of my neck and they'd start the
music, and I'd dance. You could do that with any kid, only I got paid
for it."
American actor, dancer, and singer. He came to fame in a series of
films in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan,
and Francis the Talking Mule.His best-known works came in the film
Singin' in the Rain (), for which O'Connor was awarded a Golden Globe.
He also won a Primetime Emmy Award from four nominations and received
two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame throughout his career.Though
he considered Danville, Illinois to be his hometown, O'Connor was the
th child born in St. Elizabeth Hospital in Chicago. His parents, Effie
Irene (née Crane) and John Edward "Chuck" O'Connor, were vaudeville
entertainers; she was a bareback rider and he was a circus strongman
and acrobat. His father's family was from Ireland.O'Connor later said,
"I was about months old, they tell me, when I first started dancing,
and they'd hold me up by the back of my neck and they'd start the
music, and I'd dance. You could do that with any kid, only I got paid
for it."
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