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Frankie Avalon

Highest Rated: 79% Casino (1995)

Lowest Rated: 29% Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)

Birthday: Sep 18, 1939

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

A pop crooner and teen idol during the late 1950s, singer Frankie Avalon transformed into a movie star via a string of surf-and-sand musicals in the 1960s like "Beach Party" (1963) and "Muscle Beach Party" (1964). Slight of stature and build but handsome and charismatic in an eminently safe and approachable way, Avalon wooed teenage girls with light romantic tunes like "Venus" and "Why," both of which shot to the top of the charts. When rock and roll took over the music business in the 1960s, he shifted fulltime to films, where he teamed with Annette Funicello for the silly but watchable beach party films. In ensuing decades, he was a familiar face on television and the occasional film, most notably 1978's "Grease" as the Teen Angel, and always happy to revisit the nostalgia of his career for new audiences. If his body of work was lightweight, it was also well loved, which ensured Avalon's place in pop culture history.

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Highest-Rated Movies

79% 93% Casino
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78% 63% Back to the Beach
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72% 39% Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
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70% 62% Panic in Year Zero
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70% 52% Beach Blanket Bingo
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60% 67% Stallone: Frank, That Is Watchlist
52% 64% The Alamo
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50% 41% Beach Party
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42% 40% Skidoo
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40% 41% Bikini Beach
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Filmography

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Stallone: Frank, That Is 60% 67% 2020 Actor Papa 96% 2018 Jack Freidman Actor Casino 79% 93% 1995 Self A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story 1995 Self The Stoned Age 69% 1993 Self American Bandstand's 40th Anniversary Special 1992 Actor Pee-Wee's Playhouse: Christmas Special 75% 1988 Actor Back to the Beach 78% 63% 1987 Annette's Husband Actor, Executive Producer Blood Song 25% 1982 Paul Foley Actor The Take 1974 Danny James Actor Horror House 20% 1969 Chris Actor Skidoo 42% 40% 1968 Angie Actor The Million Eyes of Su-Muru 13% 1967 Agent Tommy Carter Actor Fireball 500 35% 1966 Dave Owens Actor Sergeant Deadhead 0% 1965 Sergeant O.K. Deadhead/Sergeant Donovan Actor Ski Party 40% 1965 Todd Armstrong Actor Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine 29% 43% 1965 Craig Gamble Actor How to Stuff a Wild Bikini 33% 1965 Frankie Actor I'll Take Sweden 31% 1965 Kenny Klinger Actor Beach Blanket Bingo 70% 52% 1965 Frankie Actor Muscle Beach Party 38% 1964 Frankie Actor Bikini Beach 40% 41% 1964 Frankie/Potato Bug Actor The Castilian 1963 Jerifán Actor Operation Bikini 1963 Seaman Joseph Malzone Actor Beach Party 50% 41% 1963 Frankie Actor
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