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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 .
Chakiris: Jerry was a theater person, and maybe he was thinking in those terms still. It made sense for him to ask you to do that, but it doesn't mean it was right.
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Tony Mordente, who played A-Rab on stage, was cast as Action in the film, and George Chakiris, Riff in the London stage production, played Bernardo in the film. Tucker Smith, who joined the Broadway production several months into its run, played Diesel, renamed Ice for the film. David Winters, the first Baby John on stage, played A-Rab.
George Chakiris – Academy Award winner "Best Supporting Actor" for West Side Story George Chakiris, actor, Academy Award winner for his role in West Side Story as the leader of the Sharks gang; Michael Chiklis – of 3/4 Greek descent [23]
633 Squadron is a 1964 war film directed by Walter Grauman and starring Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, and Maria Perschy.The plot, which involves the exploits of a fictional World War II British fighter-bomber squadron, was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by former Royal Air Force officer Frederick E. Smith, which itself drew on several real RAF operations.
An uncredited George Chakiris, future Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actor (as Bernardo in West Side Story, 1961 version), can be glimpsed as one of the wealthy men pursuing Marilyn in "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend". [5] [6] Two other uncredited "suitors" in this musical number are Larry Kert and Matt Mattox.
George Maharis, a stage-trained actor with rough-hewn good looks who became an icon to American youth in the 1960s as he cruised the country in a Corvette convertible in the hit television series ...