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choreographer. Years active. 1927−1986. Sir Robert Murray Helpmann CBE ( né Helpman, 9 April 1909 – 28 September 1986) was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, director, and choreographer. After early work in Australia he moved to Britain in 1932, where he joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (now The Royal Ballet) under its creator, Ninette de Valois.
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- Robert Murray Helpman, 9 April 1909, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia
- 1927−1986
- 28 September 1986 (aged 77), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Sep 29, 1986 · Sir Robert Helpmann, an Australian dancer who became an international ballet star and choreographer as well as a noted actor and director, died yesterday in Sydney after a long illness. He was 77 ...
Apr 5, 2024 · Sir Robert Helpmann (born April 9, 1909, Mount Gambier, Australia—died Sept. 28, 1986, Sydney) was an Australian ballet dancer, choreographer, actor, and director. His career encompassed activities in ballet, theatre, and motion pictures. Helpmann first appeared on the stage in 1923 as a dancer in musical comedy, and then, after seeing Anna ...
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Robert Helpmann. Actor: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Robert Murray Helpmann was born in Mount Gambier, Australia, as the eldest of three children born to stock and station agent James Murray Helpman and Mary Gardiner. After the family moved to Adelaide in 1914, Helpmann was educated at Prince Alfred's College, but he soon left school at the age of 14 to focus on dance, specifically ballet. He was ...
- April 9, 1909
- September 28, 1986
Oct 1, 1986 · Sir Robert Helpmann, whose work as dancer, choreographer, director and actor spanned the dawn of 20th-Century ballet with Anna Pavlova, "The Red Shoes" and Walt Disney comedies, has died.
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Sir Robert Murray Helpmann (1909–1986) Sir Robert Murray Helpmann (1909-1986), ballet dancer, actor, producer, director and choreographer, was born on 9 April 1909 at Mount Gambier, South Australia, eldest of three children of James Murray Helpman, a Victorian-born stock and station agent, and his wife Mary, née Gardiner, born in South ...
The next year, in 1927, he joined J. C. Williamson Ltd. as their star dancer. Helpmann went on to become the principal dancer at Sadlers Wells Ballet from 1933 to 1950. World renowned as a dancer and choreographer, amongst his other achievements he was the director of the Australian Ballet Company. He directed the world tour of Margot Fonteyn ...
