Choreographer Alex Romero Dies

Choreographer Alex Romero died of natural causes on 8 September 2007. Born Alexander Bernard Quiroga on 20 August 1913, in San Antonio, Texas, he started dancing professionally at 15 in a touring dance act started by three of his brothers. He directed Elvis Presley's dancing for the movie Jailhouse Rock.

His genre work included choreography for Love at First Bite (1979), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962), and tom thumb (1958).

His wife, Frances Driscoll (whom he married in 1936) died in 1997. He is survived by his daughters Melinda Akard of Oviedo, Florida, and Judy George of Woodland Hills, California; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.