Tony Fields

Tony Fields was an American actor and dancer from Stafford, Kansas, who grew up in Davis, California. He trained in dance after showing early skill at gymnastics, moved to Hollywood, and first found work performing alongside Debbie Reynolds in her nightclub shows. From 1979 to 1985 he danced on the television program Solid Gold. He performed in a Queen music video, and in 1983 he appeared in Michael Jackson's Beat It and Thriller and in Lionel Richie's Running with the Night. He won the part of Al DeLuca in Richard Attenborough's screen version of A Chorus Line (1985), after a casting call that attracted more than 3,000 people. Other films were Trick or Treat (1986), The Doctor (1991), and the later Across the Moon (1995). On television he acted in Murder, She Wrote, L.A. Law, and Monsters, and he made 11 appearances on the soap Santa Barbara. He worked in California stage musicals and plays, and he died in 1995.