He won 8 Tony Awards for Choreography, (more than anyone else) and an Academy Award for Cabaret.
We talked after the premier of "All That Jazz". Fosse co-wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical film (1979), which portrayed the life of a womanizing, drug-addicted choreographer-director in the midst of triumph and failure. All That Jazz won four Academy Awards, earning Fosse his third Oscar nomination for Best Director.
He married Gwen Verdon in 1960 and went on to choreograph her work in Sweet Charity, Chicago, Redhead, Damn Yankee.
Bob was also an amazing film director; Cabaret, with Liza Minelli won eight Academy Awards.
On September 23, 1987, Gwen Verdon held him in her arms as he suffered a fatal heart attack on the sidewalk outside the Willard Hotel, as the revival of Sweet Charity was beginning across the street.

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