Charles Walters

Gender: Male
Born: 17th November 1911
Died: 13th August 1982
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Lucille Ball Special Starring Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason, Annie Get Your Gun, Ask Any Girl, Billy Rose's Jumbo, Dangerous When Wet, Don't Go Near the Water, Easter Parade, Easy to Love, Gigi, Go Naked in the World, Good News, High Society, Lili, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, Summer Stock, Texas Carnival, Texas Carnival, The Barkleys of Broadway, The Belle of New York, The Glass Slipper, The Tender Trap, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Three Guys Named Mike, Torch Song, Two Loves, Walk Don't Run, What Now, Catherine Curtis?, Ziegfeld Follies

Charles Walters (November 17, 1911 – August 13, 1982) was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s.

He was born in Pasadena, California, and educated at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

He is notable for directing Esther Williams' musicals involving underwater swimming and diving sequences, such as Dangerous When Wet, as well as several musicals starring Leslie Caron, such as Gigi (for which he is uncredited) and Lili. He has also directed musical remakes, including High Society, a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940), and Bundle of Joy, a remake of Bachelor Mother (1939). Walters also directed the last pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, The Barkleys of Broadway, as well as Cary Grant in the actor's last film Walk, Don't Run.

Walters died from lung cancer at the age of 71.

According to William J. Mann's book, "Behind the Screen", Walters was gay.

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