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Charles "Honi" Coles (April 2, 1911 – November 12, 1992) was an American actor and tap dancer, who was inducted posthumously into the American Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2003. He had a distinctive personal style that required technical precision, high-speed tapping, and a close-to-the-floor style where "the legs and feet did the work". [ 1 ]
Born in Pratt City, Alabama, Cholly began dancing in the late 1930s before his military service in 1942 during World War II.Upon leaving the U.S. Army, he first found fame as one-half of Atkins & Coles, a top vaudeville dance act with partner Charles "Honi" Coles, debuting at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.
Charles Coles was an American actor and tap dancer. Charles Coles may also refer to: Charles Coles (footballer) (1879–1942), Australian rules footballer for Geelong Football Club; Chuck Coles (born 1981), musician; Chuck Coles (baseball) (1931–1996), Major League Baseball left fielder; Charlie Coles (1942–2013), basketball coach
Charles Nelson Cole, dean of Oberlin College; father of the biophysicist Kenneth Stewart Cole; Tom Cole (writer), playwright and screenwriter Charles Thomas Cole (1933–2009) Charles W. Cole (1906–1978), president of Amherst College and U.S. Ambassador to Chile; Charles Cole, shoe manufacturer, founder and president of Five Ten Footwear ...
Charlie Coles (February 6, 1942 – June 7, 2013) was an American college basketball coach and the former men's basketball head coach at Miami University and Central Michigan University. He was born Charles Leroy Coles in Springfield, Ohio, and later moved in with his grandparents in nearby Yellow Springs, where he attended Bryan High School ...
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. (December 2, 1922 – August 24, 1998 [1]) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan who served in the state senate and U.S. House of Representatives. He was the first African American elected to Congress from Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, Diggs was an early participant in the civil rights ...
Cameron Coles (b. 1974), Australian-born Scottish cricketer; Cecil Frederick Coles (1888–1918), British composer; Charles "Honi" Coles (1911–1992), American tap dancer; Charlie Coles (1942–2013), American basketball player and coach; Charlotte Coles, British oncologist and professor; Cowper Phipps Coles (1819–1870), British naval ...
Charles John Clarke Coles (26 December 1878 – 20 August 1942) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a skilled follower with a nice kick. However, his career was ruined through a broken leg in 1904. He died in 1942 after being struck on the chin while acting ...