By the time he was 12, Bobby had already appeared in more than 80 TV shows, singing and dancing. It’s an anthology which covers various genres, aired from 1954 to 1997, numbering 736 episodes, and won 15 of its 37 award nominations, including an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, Short Subjects (Ward Kimball).īobby’s today running his own dance studio, in which he’s working as an instructor, and he also occasionally tours with professional American dancer Elaine Balden.īill and Janie Burgess raised their son Bobby in Long Beach, alongside his one older and two younger siblings Bill was a meat cutter and Janie was a homemaker, making them a middle-class family.īobby was only three when he began taking singing and dancing lessons, and was five when he began appearing on TV, by when he had already learned to play the accordion, as well. Bobby’s probably still known for having been one of the original Mouseketeers in the adventure family series “The Magical World of Disney”, created by William Blinn, and which starred Walt Disney, Paul Frees and Clarence Nash.

Famous American dancer, singer and actor Robert Wilkie ‘Bobby’ Burgess, was born in Long Beach, California, on under the zodiac sign of Taurus.