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Known For

Robert Helpmann is known for:

  • The Red Shoes
    In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
    A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
  • Patrick
    A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.

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Biography

Sir Robert Helpmann CBE (9 April 1909 – 28 September 1986) was an Australian dancer, film actor, theatre director and choreographer. A protege of Pavlova and Fonteyn’s first partner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Helpmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.