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Plays, Unpublished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