- Born
- Birth nameErnest Evans
- Nickname
- Checker
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Chubby Checker was born on October 3, 1941 in Spring Gulley, South Carolina, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Spider-Man 3 (2007), The Courier (2020) and The Help (2011). He has been married to Catharina Johanna Lodders since April 12, 1964. They have three children.
- SpouseCatharina Johanna Lodders(April 12, 1964 - present) (3 children)
- Popularized the Twist; a dance craze that swept the world in the early 1960s.
- His name, "Chubby Checker", is a play on the name of another famous singer of his era, Fats Domino. The name was suggested by the wife of American Bandstand (1952) host Dick Clark.
- His wife, Catherina, was the 1962 Miss World from Holland.
- His daughter, Mistie Williams, plays basketball at Duke University.
- He was 47 when he played himself as a 17-year-old boy in the Quantum Leap (1989) episode Good Morning, Peoria - September 9, 1959 (1989).
- Rumor always had it that he was a chicken-plucker in Philadelphia before he made it big with "The Twist".
- [To Bill Takacs (an IMDb biography writer), who in 1979 met him on a flight to New York from Johannesburg, South Africa (he had been performing in nearby Swaziland) and who addressed him as Mr. Evans (his real name)] "Don't call me Mr. Evans; only my minister can call me that."
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