Alex Romero, a dancer and choreographer who directed Elvis Presley’s dancing for the movie “Jailhouse Rock” and worked with Presley on three other films, died September 8 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home. He was 94.

A gracefully athletic dancer, Romero started in movies in the early 1940s. He was a featured dancer in the 1949 film version of “On the Town,” the 1949, starring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

He was a staff choreographer for MGM for two decades beginning in the late 1940s. Among his credits is “The Affairs of Dobie Gillis” (1953) starring Bobby Van and Debbie Reynolds.

Romero was known for his humor and imaginative use of props in dances he choreographed. In “The Fastest Gun Alive” (1956), he choreographed Russ Tamblyn dancing with a shovel as a prop. Romero also worked with Tamblyn on “Tom Thumb,” (1958).

For Presley, Romero choreographed “Double Trouble” and “Clambake” (1967) as well as “Speedway” (1968). Their most memorable collaboration remained “Jailhouse Rock” (1957). The production number for the movie’s title song was Presley’s first choreographed routine, according to “Down At The End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley,” by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske.

“I guess he thought that I was going to give him some slick dancing steps,” Romero said in the book. “I chose steps that were foreign to him, but that were also like him, so he could pick them up.”

Born Alexander Bernard Quiroga on August 20, 1913, in San Antonio, he started dancing professionally at 15, in a touring dance act started by three of his brothers. The act broke up in the late 1930s and Romero went to work in Hollywood.