Tony Charmoli, the three-time Emmy-winning choreographer and Broadway veteran who directed Shirley MacLaine and Mitzi Gaynor in splashy TV specials during the 1970s, has died.
He was 99. One of the top choreographers in TV history, Charmoli died Friday at his home in the Hollywood Hills, his friend, Paul Manchester, announced.
They collaborated on a 2016 book of Charmoli's "adventures" titledStars in My Eyes. Charmoli made his Broadway debut as a dancer in 1947 inDear Judasand went on to choreograph such shows asEddie Fisher at the Winter Gardenin 1962 and direct MacLaine's revue on the Great White Way in 1976.
He received one of his Emmys and a DGA award for choreographing MacLaine's 1976 CBS specialGypsy in My Soul— he introduced her to.
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