Robert Helpmann, Australian dancer, actor, and choreographer (died 1986)

Robert Helpmann

Australian dancer, actor, theatre director and choreographer (1909–1986)

Sir Robert Murray Helpmann was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, director, and choreographer. After early work in Australia he moved to Britain in 1932, where he joined the Vic-Wells Ballet under its creator, Ninette de Valois. He became one of the company's leading men,…