Charles H. Blake Biography (1916-)

Addresses: Home: 484 W. 43rd Street #460, New York, NY, 10036; Home: 3325 N. Knoll Drive, Hollywood, CA, 90068.

SIDELIGHTS: "I have enjoyed diversity at the cost of celebrity. All theater is within each of us to give to others--always with joy."

Nationality

American

Occupation

actor, choreographer, producer, dancer

Famous Works

• Debut
• The Magician, Aska the Magician, Rialto, Louisville, KY, 1930.
• New York Debut
• understudy (the Kids), Dead End, Belasco, 1936.
• London Debut
• corps, Ballet Russe, Convent Garden, 1938.
• Principal Stage Appearances
• dancer, New Faces, Court, New York, 1937; dancer/magician, Crazy with the Heat, 44th Street Theater, 1939; singer, This Is the Army, Broadway, 1942.
• Major Tours
• singer, Right This Way and This Is the Army, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, OH, Pittsburgh, PA; Groucho Marx Touring Revue, 1946.
• Film Debut
• singer, This Is the Army, 1944.
• Principal Film Appearances
• dancer, Her Sister's Secret, 1946; lead, The Red Wagons, 1946; pilot, The Master Key, 1945.
• Principal Television Appearances
• dancing magician, Rainbow Grill Room Broadcast and Trianon Room Broadcast, 1939.
• Directed
• Films--The Eighth Lively Art. Ballet--International Ballet.
• Choreographed
• Plays--Showboat, Germany, 1972. Film--The Eighth Lively Art. Television--Pee Wee King Show.
• Theatre-Related Career
• Consultant--San Juan Ballet; Buffalo Ballet. Coached/Staged--Emmett Kelly Circus; Musical Revue (Spain); Palmer the Magician, European Magic Festival.
• Plays, Unpublished
• The Mago (musical).
• Books
• Inner Dancing, 1980; A Dancer's Handbook, 1981.