Director

LeRoy Prinz

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Directed movies: 10Directed series: 0All crew credits: 28

TMDB ID: 1007702

IMDb ID: nm0697895

Known for: Directing

Born: July 14, 1895

Died: September 15, 1983

Age: 88

Place of birth: St. Joseph, Missouri, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1934 - 1965

Years active: 32

Average TMDB rating: 6.73

Wikidata: Q1423662

Also known as

Le Roy Prinz • LeRoy J. Prinz • Leroy Prinz

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Director (10)Choreographer (18)

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia LeRoy Jerome Prinz (July 14, 1895 – September 15, 1983) was an American choreographer, director and producer, who was involved in the production of dozens of motion pictures, mainly for Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers, from 1929 through 1958, and also choreographed Broadway musicals. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Dance Direction in the 1930s, and won the Golden Globe in 1958. Among the films whose dances he choreographed were Show Boat (1936), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Rhapsody in Blue (1945), and South Pacific (1958). Prinz was married three times and had a son, LeRoy Prinz, Jr.

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