Born October 30, 1931· Los Angeles, California, U.S.
† Died January 13, 2017
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Born into a Hollywood household in Culver City, California, where his father worked as a grip and his mother as a costume seamstress, Gautier began performing as a singer and nightclub comic at San Francisco’s Hungry i before joining ASCAP after his Navy service. He broke onto Broadway in 1960 as flamboyant rock-star Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie, earning a Tony nomination, and translated that s…
