CHRISTOPHER RIORDAN: An Unorthodox Career

Films of the Golden Age
Issue Number 105
Summer 2021

“I think of [my career] as sort of a wild tapestry that was patched and sewn together in crazy bits and pieces. It hasn’t been all roses, but I survived the challenge.”

Actor/dancer/choreographer CHRISTOPHER RIORDAN (1937- ), on stage from age four, enjoyed a six-decade Hollywood career on stage, film and TV. A musical performer, he earned a notable break when selected by Fred Astaire and eventual mentor Hermes Pan to appear in dancer Barrie Chase’s 1960’s nightclub act. Assisting Pan in such films as MY FAIR LADY (1964) and THE GREAT RACE (1965), he went on to be glimpsed in a number of Elvis Presley movies and standard 60’s TV programs. An assistant choreographer of numerous “Beach Party” flicks, he was featured in a few exploitation films (THE GAY DECEIVERS (1969), BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970)).

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