Thomas Edward Rall was an American actor, ballet dancer, tap dancer, and acrobatic dancer who was a prominent featured player in 1950s musical comedies.
16 Facts About Tommy Rall
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Tommy Rall later became a successful operatic tenor in the 1960s, making appearances with the Opera Company of Boston, the New York City Opera, and the American National Opera Company.
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Tommy Rall was born in Kansas City, Missouri to Edward and Margaret Tommy Rall, but raised in Seattle, Washington.
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Tommy Rall's family moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s, and Rall began to appear in small movie roles.
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Tommy Rall's first film appearance was a short MGM film called Vendetta.
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Tommy Rall began taking tap dancing lessons and became a member of the jitterbugging Jivin' Jacks and Jills at Universal Studios.
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Tommy Rall joined Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, and Shirley Mills in several light wartime Andrews Sisters vehicles including Give Out, Sisters, Get Hep to Love, and Mister Big, among others.
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Tommy Rall appeared in the films The North Star and Song of Russia.
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Tommy Rall took ballet lessons and danced in classical and Broadway shows, including Milk and Honey, Call Me Madam, and Cry for Us All.
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Tommy Rall had a role in the movie Funny Girl, as "The Prince" in a parody of the ballet Swan Lake.
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Tommy Rall took the title role in a production of Massenet's Le jongleur de Notre-Dame by the New England Opera Theatre in Boston in 1961 in a role which required both singing and juggling and dancing.
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Tommy Rall was briefly married to his Juno co-star Monte Amundsen.
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When Tommy Rall found out about the masquerade decades later, through a friend of the family, Tommy Rall contacted the Montgomery County, Texas Sheriff's office.
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Tommy Rall wanted Brame to stop taking credit for his work and warned that if he continued or did it again a lawsuit would be filed.
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In September 2020, Tommy Rall had heart surgery and recovered at the Fireside Health Center.
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Tommy Rall was survived by his wife, Karel, and their son, Aaron, a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army.