# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-alton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:36:16.075Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-alton"
name: "Robert Alton"
slug: "robert-alton"
description: "Robert Alton was an American dancer and choreographer, a major figure in dance choreography of Broadway and Hollywood musicals from the 1930s through to the early 1950s. He is principally remembered today as the discoverer of Gene Kelly, for his collaborations with Fred Astaire, and for choreographic sequences he designed for Hollywood musicals such as The Harvey Girls (1946), Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), Show Boat (1951), and White Christmas (1954)."
tagline: "American dancer and choreographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Greta_Garbo-Robert_Alton_in_Two-Faced_Woman.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1897-01-28"
deathDate: "1957-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.18
  momentum:             0.2229299363057325
  historical:           5.478222666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0023012/"
    handle:    "nm0023012"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alton"
    title: "Robert Alton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "روبرت ألتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "روبرت التون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%B9_%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%B9%D9%86"
    title: "رابرٹ آلٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alton"
    title: "Robert Alton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Alton"
    title: "Robert Alton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3938200"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump