Billy Daniel

Birth : 1912-07-04, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Death : 1962-05-15

History

Native Texan Billy Daniel (AKA Billy Daniels) was an actor, dancer, and was best know as a choreographer. Daniel's worked with scores of "A List" thespians including Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Esther Williams, Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, and Alan Ladd.

Movies

Journey to the Lost City
Choreographer
An exotic dancing girl of India inflames the passions of a traveling draftsman.
Paris Casino
Choreographer
The French Line
Andre - Show on Liberte
Oil heiress Mame Carson takes an incognito cruise so that men will love her for her body, not her money.
How to Marry a Millionaire
Choreographer
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
Dangerous When Wet
Choreographer
The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe, comes to town and suggests they could swim the English Channel. Sponsored by "Liquapep" and coached by Windy, the family arrive in Europe. There it is decided that daughter Katie is the only one strong enough to enter the contest. But while she should be focused on the difficult and risky task ahead, Katie is pursed by dashing Frenchman, André Lanet... This comedic musical is well remembered for the scene when Katie dreams she is swimming with cartoon characters Tom & Jerry!
Powder River
Choreographer
Ex-marshal Chino Bull has hung up his guns until his prospecting partner is shot dead. Chino then takes over as the law in town, forming a friendship with gun-man Mitch Hardin and making enemies of the Logan brothers. When Hardin' girl from the east arrives, he makes her pretty unwelcome - as does his new flame, saloon owner Frenchie.
Scared Stiff
Dancer
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
Scared Stiff
Choreographer
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
My Blue Heaven
Dance Director
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
My Blue Heaven
Choreographer
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
Fancy Pants
Choreographer
An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to pay a visit.
Wabash Avenue
Choreographer
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
Red Hot and Blue
Choreographer
A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Choreographer
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
Rogues' Regiment
Choreographer
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
The Paleface
Choreographer
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
One Touch of Venus
Choreographer
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.
Dream Girl
Choreographer
A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has.
The Emperor Waltz
Choreographer
At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.
Variety Girl
Choreographer
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Golden Earrings
Choreographer
A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.
The Perils of Pauline
Choreographer
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
The Trouble with Women
Choreographer
A psychology professor comes up with a theory that women have a desire to be subjugated. A newswoman, using a pseudonym, accuses him of advocating wife-beating. There is trouble, when he falls in love with her, unaware of who she is.
Masquerade in Mexico
Rico Fenway (uncredited)
An American singer stranded in Mexico is hired by a banker to distract a Mexican matador who is making a play for the banker's wife. They hatch a scheme whereby she pretends to be a Spanish countess.
Kitty
Choreographer
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.
Duffy's Tavern
Choreographer
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
The Three Caballeros
Choreographer
For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.
Frenchman's Creek
Pierre Blanc (as Billy Daniels)
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into a world of adventure.
Lady in the Dark
Office Boy
A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.
Midnight
Roger - Stephanie's Gigolo (uncredited)
An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
Hold 'Em Navy
Steve Crenshaw
Two football players fight over the same girl.