Nick Castle(1910-1968)

Choreography
Music Department
Additional Crew

Choreographer, songwriter, composer and author, educated in public schools, then a vaudevillian in 1927, and a choreographer for film studios and night club acts from 1935. He also staged television shows. He joined ASCAP in 1951, and his chief songwriting collaborators included Sidney Clare, Jule Styne, Dudley Brooks, and Eddie Beal. His popular-song compositions include "Limpy Dimp", "Candy Store Blues", "Chula Chihuahua", "Relax", and "Ginger!".

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 nomination total

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Known for

Battle of Broadway

6.1

Choreography

1938

Skirts Ahoy!

5.7

Additional Crew

1952

Hellzapoppin'

7.4

Choreography

1941

For the Love of Mary

6.7

Choreography(as Miss Durbin's songs staged by)

1948

Credits

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Choreography

Gene Kelly Newspaper Dance Tribute Featuring Cole Newburg
Short
- original choreography (as Nicholas Castle Sr)
- 2021
The Jerry Lewis Show
6.3
TV Series
- choreography
- choreographer
- choreographic director
- 1967–1968
Die Caterina-Valente-Show
TV Series
- choreography
- 1967
Es funkeln die Sterne - Zu Gast bei Caterina Valente
TV Movie
- choreographer
- 1966
Friends and Nabors
TV Special
- choreographer
- 1966
Carol and Company
TV Movie
- choreographer
- 1966
The Andy Williams Show
7.4
TV Series
- choreographer
- 1962–1966
The Roger Miller Show
TV Series
- choreographer
- 1966
The Hollywood Palace
8.1
TV Series
- choreographer
- 1964–1965
Your All-Time Favorite Songs
TV Special
- choreographer
- 1964
The Judy Garland Show
8.9
TV Series
- choreographer
- 1963
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
8.0
TV Series
- choreographer
- 1956–1963
State Fair
5.9
- choreographer
- 1962
The Bob Hope Show
7.3
TV Series
- choreographer
- 1954–1961
Pocketful of Miracles
7.1
- choreographer
- 1961

Music Department

Singer Presents: Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass
TV Special
- musical numbers staged by
- 1967
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
8.0
TV Series
- stager: musical numbers
- 1967
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
8.0
TV Series
- stager: musical numbers
- 1962–1963
The Andy Williams Show
7.4
TV Series
- musical numbers staged by
- 1962
Cinderfella
5.9
- stager: musical numbers
- 1960
The Bellboy
6.5
- stager: musical numbers
- 1960
Rock-a-Bye Baby
6.6
- stager: musical numbers
- 1958
The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna
7.9
TV Series
- creator: musical number
- creator: musical numbers
- 1956–1958
The Bob Hope Show
7.3
TV Series
- stager: musical numbers
- 1956
Anything Goes
6.1
- stager: musical numbers
- 1956
Rich, Young and Pretty
5.8
- stager: musical numbers
- 1951
Ride 'Em Cowboy
6.5
- musical number choreographer
- 1942
Hold That Ghost
7.2
- stager: musical numbers
- 1941
In the Navy
6.7
- staging of musical numbers
- 1941

Additional Crew

The Jerry Lewis Show
6.3
TV Series
- creative consultant
- 1968
Something Special
TV Series
- creative consultant
- 1967
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
8.0
TV Series
- musical numbers staged by
- 1961
The Delicate Delinquent
6.3
- stager: music numbers
- 1957
Bundle of Joy
6.0
- musical numbers and dances staged by
- 1956
Stars and Stripes Forever
7.1
- dance stager for "springtime in new york"
- 1952
Everything I Have Is Yours
5.7
- stager: musical numbers
- 1952
Skirts Ahoy!
5.7
- musical numbers created by
- musical numbers staged by
- 1952
Nancy Goes to Rio
6.4
- dance creator
- 1950
Suspense
6.5
- skating sequences
- 1946
Mexicana
5.8
- stager: musical numbers
- 1945
Show Business
6.4
- musical numbers created and staged by
- 1944
Everything Happens at Night
5.9
- stager: skating numbers (as Nicholas Castle)
- 1939

Personal details

Alternative names
- Nick Castle Sr.
Born
- March 21, 1910
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died
- August 18, 1968
- Los Angeles, California, USA(heart attack)
Spouse
- Emilia Florence 'Millie' GranataJune 7, 1936 - August 18, 1968 (his death, 2 children)
Children
Other works
Screen and vaudeville dancer, and film an TV dance director.

Did you know

Trivia
Nick Castle worked in his early years as dance director in vaudeville, before he went in 1937 to Hollywood, where he worked as choreographer first at Fox, Paramount, Warner, MGM and Columbia with Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Betty Grable, Ann Miller, Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.