Christopher Riordan

Actor/dancer/choreographer Christopher Riordan was born in Redwood, California on November 25, 1937, and entertained in song-and-dance shows around the San Jose and San Francisco area from age four. Following high school, he left home and headed straight to Hollywood to follow his boyhood dream. Once in Hollywood, his life changed completely. Almost immediately he was given a small role in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) and, after a chance meeting with actor Montgomery Clift, was given the uncredited role of his teenage son in a brief, final scene of the Civil War drama Raintree County (1957) but the scene was deleted before its general release. Christopher spent the next few years dividing his time between stage and nightclub work. He sang and danced in such road shows as "Damn Yankees," "Carnival" and "Girl Crazy" and musical revues including "The Best of Broadway" and "That's Show Biz!" In 1962, he happened to be seen at an audition by Fred Astaire and his choreographer Hermes