O'Connor was natural into an Irish immigrant family of vaudeville entertainers. As the bambino, he & his sister were exposed inside a traveling accident, which resulted around her demise. His father died of the heart attack simply two or three weeks late. Eventually it was as the comedy actor & a song-&-dance human that he became illustrious. His schoolboyish looks did non allow him to take the romanticistic lead, except once appearing by having a large star like Ethel Merman (in Call Me Madam) or Bing Crosby (with whom he appeared around his number one film at a age of eleven). Nevertheless, he did have a separate Hollywood career in the late 1930s, in which he played such incongruous roles when Beau Geste. In the period of World War II, he was re-invented as a star of musical films.

After a bloom of the film musical comedy was complete, O'Connor returned to a stage, & experienced the short-ephemeral television series in the period of the late 1960s. When overcoming the drinking problem in the 1970s, he continued to make film & television appearances into the 1990s. O'Connor was however making public appearances swell into 2003.

Among his endure words, he is reported to keep around expressed thanks for the Academy Award for Lifetime Accomplishment which he potential to win at a bit of new date. He left behind his married woman, Gloria, & little joe babies.

Donald O'Connor is buried in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography
Melody for Two (1937) (scenes deleted) ''It Can't Last Forever (1937) Men with Wings (1938) Sing You Sinners (1938) Sons of the Legion (1938) Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938) Boy Trouble (1939) Unmarried (1939) Million Dollar Legs (1939) Beau Geste (1939) Night Work (1939) Death of a Champion (1939) On Your Toes (1939) What's Cookin'? (1942) Private Buckaroo (1942) Give Out, Sisters (1942) Get Hep to Love (1942) When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1942) It Comes Up Love (1943) Mister Big (1943) Top Man (1943) Chip Off the Old Block (1944) Follow the Boys (1944) This Is the Life (1944) The Merry Monahans (1944) Bowery to Broadway (1944) Patrick the Great (1945) Something in the Wind (1947) Are You with It? (1948) Feudin', Fussin', and A-Fightin' (1948) Screen Snapshots: Motion Picture Mothers, Inc. (1949) (short subject) Yes Sir That's My Baby (1949) Francis (1950) Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950) The Milkman (1950) Double Crossbones (1951) Francis Goes to the Races (1951) Singin' in the Rain (1952) Francis Goes to West Point (1952) I Love Melvin (1953) Call Me Madam (1953) Francis Covers the Big Town (1953) Walking My Baby Back Home (1953) Francis Joins the WACs (1954) There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) Francis in the Navy (1955) Anything Goes (1956) The Buster Keaton Story (1957) Cry for Happy(1961) The Wonders of Aladdin (1961) That Funny Feeling (1965) Just One More Time (1974) (short subject) That's Entertainment! (1974) Ragtime (1981) Pandemonium (1982) A Time to Remember (1987) Toys (1992) Father Frost (1996) Out to Sea'' (1997)