Bert Michaels

{{short description|American actor, choreographer, dancer and singer}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Bert Michaels

|image = Bert Michaels.webp

|caption = Michaels in 1963

|image_size = 150

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|12|22}}

|occupation = Actor, choreographer, dancer, singer

}}

Bert Michaels (born December 22, 1943){{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/bert-michaels-an37163/filmography|title=Bert Michaels|work=AllMovie|access-date=January 12, 2025}} is an American actor, choreographer,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwlxDwAAQBAJ|title=Riding High: How I Kissed SoulCycle Goodbye, Co-Founded Flywheel, and Built the Life I Always Wanted|page=21|first=Ruth|last=Zukerman|publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group|date=October 2, 2018|isbn=9781250127587|via=Google Books}} dancer{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/133627884/|title=Michaels Included In Look|work=The Palm Beach Post|location=West Palm Beach, Florida|date=August 6, 1961|access-date=January 12, 2025|page=23|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/354546261/|title=Melodyland Actor Shows Versatility|work=Oakland Tribune|location=Oakland, California|date=August 24, 1963|access-date=January 12, 2025|page=12|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} and singer.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/619648482/|title=He's Bert Michaels: Atomic Miamian Making His Mark as an Actor|work=The Miami Herald|location=Miami, Florida|date=September 24, 1961|access-date=January 12, 2024|page=37|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} He is perhaps best known for playing Snowboy in the 1961 film West Side Story.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/53850/West-Side-Story/cast|title=West Side Story (1961)|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 12, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416002853/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/53850/West-Side-Story/details|archive-date=April 16, 2014|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9hoBEQAAQBAJ|title=La comédie musicale, du "Chanteur de jazz" à "Cabaret"|language=French|page=347|first=Patrick|last=Brion|publisher=(Éditions de la Martinière jeunesse) réédition numérique FeniXX|date=January 1, 1993|isbn=9791036919909|via=Google Books}}