Versatile performer, 57, had battled cancer
08/11/2003
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES – Tony Award winner Gregory Hines, the tap-dancing actor who starred on Broadway and in movies including White Nights and The Cotton Club, has died, his publicist said. He was 57.
Hines died Saturday in Los Angeles of cancer, publicist Allen Eichorn said.
The dancer, among the best in his generation, won a 1992 Tony for the musical Jelly's Last Jam.
Hines also starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1985's White Nights and with Billy Crystal in 1986's Running Scared, and he appeared with Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett in 1995's Waiting to Exhale , among other movies.
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08/11/2003
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES – Tony Award winner Gregory Hines, the tap-dancing actor who starred on Broadway and in movies including White Nights and The Cotton Club, has died, his publicist said. He was 57.
Hines died Saturday in Los Angeles of cancer, publicist Allen Eichorn said.
The dancer, among the best in his generation, won a 1992 Tony for the musical Jelly's Last Jam.
Hines also starred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1985's White Nights and with Billy Crystal in 1986's Running Scared, and he appeared with Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett in 1995's Waiting to Exhale , among other movies.
More of the Article here.
