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The brothers were fascinated by the combination of tap dancing and acrobatics. Fayard often imitated their acrobatics and clowning for the kids in his neighborhood. [2] Neither Fayard nor Harold had any formal dance training. [3] Fayard taught himself how to dance, sing, and perform by watching and imitating the professional entertainers on stage.
He had a large role in The Cotton Club (1984), where he and his brother Maurice (in his sole film credit) played a 1930s tap-dancing duo reminiscent of the Nicholas Brothers. [14] Hines co-starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in the 1985 film White Nights , and co-starred with Billy Crystal in the 1986 buddy cop film Running Scared .
Maurice Robert Hines Jr. was born on December 13, 1943, in New York City to a Catholic couple, Alma Iola (Lawless) and Maurice Robert Hines Sr., a dancer, musician, and actor. [2] [3] Hines began his career at the age of five, studying tap dance at the Henry LeTang Dance Studio in Manhattan. [4]
Maurice Hines Jr., who went from working in a tap-dancing act with brother Gregory Hines to becoming a tap trailblazer on Broadway, has died at age 80.
Maurice Hines, an actor, dancer and choreographer who starred with his brother Gregory Hines in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club,” died Friday. He was 80. Friends including Debbie ...
Harold Lloyd Nicholas (March 27, 1921 – July 3, 2000) was an American dancer specializing in tap. Nicholas was the younger half of the tap-dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers, known as two of the world's greatest dancers. His older brother was Fayard Nicholas.
The Nicholas Brothers, African-American team of dancing brothers, Fayard Nicholas (1914–2006) and Harold Nicholas (1921–2000). With their highly acrobatic technique, high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many the greatest tap dancers of their day. Bronislava Nijinska (1891–1972), Polish and Russian ballet ...
The Clark Brothers, consisting of Steve (1924 – February 2017) [1] and James ("Jimmy") (23 July 1922 – 30 October 2009), [2] were an American double act, who achieved success in Britain in the postwar period. They were thought to be the last of the "brothers" acts of tap-dancing's golden age.