Charles Powell Walters (November 17, 1911[1] – August 13, 1982)[2] was an American Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies from the 1940s to the 1960s.

[1] Walters was educated at Anaheim Union High School (Class of 1930) and briefly attended the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Shortly after graduating high school in 1931, Walters joined a touring Fanchon & Marco revue as a chorus boy and specialty dancer.

On Broadway, Walters danced in Parade (1935)[3] with frequent partner Dorothy Fox,[citation needed] and the Cole Porter-Moss Hart Jubilee (1935) where he introduced "Begin the Beguine" and "Just One of Those Things".

[2] Walters also appeared in the revue The Show is On (1937),[3] directed by Vincente Minnelli,[citation needed] then was in Between the Devil (1937–38) and I Married an Angel (1938).

He did choreography for Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945), Week-End at the Waldorf (1945), Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945) (in which he appeared), Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), and Summer Holiday (shot 1946, released 1948).

Walters' first credited feature directorial effort was the musical Good News (1947) with June Allyson and Peter Lawford.

However a Frank Sinatra-Debbie Reynolds comedy, The Tender Trap, (1955) was well liked, as was the Bing Crosby-Sinatra-Grace Kelly musical High Society (1956).

He also helped choreograph the number "The Night They Invented Champagne" in Gigi (1958) and did some uncredited directing on Cimarron (1960) and Go Naked in the World (1961).