George Chakiris (born September 16, 1932) is an American actor and dancer. He is best known for his appearance in the 1961 film version of West Side Story as Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks gang, for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
Motion Picture. Chakiris was born on September 16, 1932, in Norwood, Ohio, to Stelianos (Steve) and Zoe (née Anastasiadou) Chakiris, Greek immigrants...
war film directed by Walter Grauman and starring Cliff Robertson, GeorgeChakiris, and Maria Perschy. The plot, which involves the exploits of a fictional...
starred GeorgeChakiris, Wings Hauser and Pamela Ludwig, and featured music and performance by the punk rock band Agent Orange. Michael Fury (Chakiris) arrives...
Grassle, Tate Dewey, Kevin Hardesty, Louis Gossett Jr., Tatum O'Neal, GeorgeChakiris, Cloris Leachman and Olympia Dukakis, the latter two in their final...
real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac, and features GeorgeChakiris, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin, Grover Dale and Geneviève Thénier...
with Yul Brynner within a year — the other being Taras Bulba. Balam (GeorgeChakiris) is the son of the ruler of a Mayan city-state whose people use wooden...
Hersholt Humanitarian Award to George Seaton) Macdonald Carey and Shirley Knight (Presenters: Best Special Effects) GeorgeChakiris and Carolyn Jones (Presenters:...
Brynner), Col Glenn Stevenson (Richard Widmark) and 1st Lt John Gregg (GeorgeChakiris), all members of the U. S. Air Force Air Rescue Service at Ashiya Air...
including Terry-Thomas, Ian Carmichael, Ronald Lewis, Ian Hendry and GeorgeChakiris. She proved adept in a wide variety of genres, including comedy, romantic...
directed by Tito Davison and starring Lana Turner, Karin Mossberg, GeorgeChakiris, Daniel O'Herlihy and Richard Egan. Its plot follows an aging former...
and Dyan Cannon (it was their honeymoon nest in 1965), Henry Fonda, GeorgeChakiris, Mark Lindsay, Samantha Eggar, and Olivia Hussey. Charles Manson visited...
Peter Gennaro, with scenery by Oliver Smith. Featured performers were GeorgeChakiris, who won an Academy Award as Bernardo in the 1961 film version, as...
Richard Wordsworth in The Old Vic Company's 1956 Broadway production GeorgeChakiris as Bernardo Nuñez in West Side Story (1961) musical; won Best Supporting...
and Meek soon saw Meek leaving. During his time he recorded US actor GeorgeChakiris for SAGA Records and it was this that led him to Major Wilfred Alonzo...
Hills" Bagdad Café Johnny Episode: "Not Enough Cooks" Call Me Anna GeorgeChakiris Television film Silhouette Darren Lauder Television film 1990–1997...
Turner, Sting, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Freddie Mercury, Sinitta, Boy George, Dead or Alive, Bananarama, and Duran Duran. He danced in the Elton John...
Academy Award winners: Cloris Leachman, Louis Gossett Jr, Tatum O'Neal, GeorgeChakiris, and Olympia Dukakis. On May 14, 2006, she was awarded an honorary...
Academy Award winners Cloris Leachman, Louis Gossett Jr., Tatum O'Neal, GeorgeChakiris, and Olympia Dukakis. The film, directed by Valerio Zanoli, aimed to...
British action film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, GeorgeChakiris and Susan Strasberg. It is set in Cyprus during the EOKA uprising against...
Angels (1966). Fonda originally was to support GeorgeChakiris, but graduated to the lead when Chakiris revealed he could not ride a motorcycle. In the...
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