Sammy Davis Jr

Monday, 01 October 2012

Sammy Davis Jr.- Tap Dancing,Singing, And More......

Sammy Davis Jr. - Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)

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Sammy Davis Jr. - Mr. Bojangles

This is Sammy Davis Jr.'s Version of "Mr. Bojangles"....

published: 17 Dec 2007

Author: pmorgan987

Sammy Davis Jr. Impersonations

Not only is he a brilliant singer but Sammy does marvelous impersonations of other singers...

published: 12 Jun 2008

Author: marilynmortician

Sammy Davis Jnr "Mr Bojangles"

The great man performing the wonderful song like no other can. Performance in Germany 1985...

published: 08 Oct 2008

Author: markflem

Sammy Davis Jnr The Candy Man

One of the greatest Entertainers Singing a rare performance of The Candyman Live in German...

published: 03 Apr 2008

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Sammy Davis Jr. - I Gotta Be Me

Performing on the Playboy After Dark Show......

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Sammy Davis Jr.
1986 portrait by Allan Warren
Born	Samuel George Davis, Jr. (1925-12-08)December 8, 1925 Harlem, New York, United States
Died	May 16, 1990(1990-05-16) (aged 64) Beverly Hills, California, United States Interred: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
Cause of death	Throat cancer
Occupation	Singer, tap dancer, actor, musician
Years active	1928–1990
Religion	Judaism
Spouse	Loray White (1958–1959) May Britt (1960–1968) Altovise Davis (1970–1990)
Children	Tracey (b. 1961) Mark (b. 1960) Jeff (b. 1964) Manny (b. 1988)
Parents	Sammy Davis, Sr. (father) Elvera Sanchez (mother)
Website
sammydavis-jr.com

Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer and was also known for his impersonations of actors and other celebrities.

Primarily a dancer and singer, Davis started as a child vaudevillian who became known for his performances on Broadway and Las Vegas. He went on to become a world famous recording artist, television and film star. Davis was also a member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack".

At the age of three Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father and "uncle" as the Will Mastin Trio, toured nationally, and after military service, returned to the trio. Davis became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's after the 1951 Academy Awards. With the trio, he became a recording artist. In 1954, he lost his left eye in an automobile accident.

His film career began as a child in 1933. In 1960 he appeared in the first Rat Pack film, Ocean's 11. After a starring role on Broadway in 1956's Mr Wonderful, Davis returned to the stage in 1964's Golden Boy, and in 1966 had his own TV variety show, The Sammy Davis Jr. Show. Davis' career slowed in the late sixties, but he had a hit record with "The Candy Man", in 1972, and became a star in Las Vegas earning him the nickname Mister Show Business.

As an African American, Davis was the victim of racism throughout his life, and was a large financial supporter of civil rights causes. Davis had a complex relationship with the African-American community, and attracted criticism after physically embracing Richard Nixon in 1970. One day on a golf course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. "Handicap?" he asked. "Talk about handicap—I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew."^[1]^[2] This was to become a signature comment, recounted in his autobiography, and in countless articles.^[3]

After reuniting with Sinatra and Dean Martin in 1987, Davis toured with them and Liza Minnelli internationally, before dying of throat cancer in 1990. He died in debt to the Internal Revenue Service, and his estate was the subject of legal battles.^{[citation needed]}

Davis was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for his television performances. He was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1987, and in 2001, he was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Early life [link]

Samuel George Davis, Jr. was born in New York City, to Sammy Davis, Sr. (1900–1988), an African-American entertainer, and Elvera Sanchez (1905–2000),^[4] a tap dancer. During his lifetime, Davis, Jr. stated that his mother was Puerto Rican and born in San Juan; however, in the 2003 biography In Black and White, author Wil Haygood writes that Davis, Jr.'s mother was born in New York City to Cuban American parents, and that Davis, Jr. claimed he was Puerto Rican because he feared anti-Cuban backlash would hurt his record sales.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Davis' parents were vaudeville dancers. As an infant, he was raised by his paternal grandmother. When he was three years old, his parents separated. His father, not wanting to lose custody of his son, took him on tour. Davis learned to dance from his father and his "uncle" Will Mastin, who led the dance troupe his father worked for. Davis joined the act as a child and they became the Will Mastin Trio. Throughout his career, Davis included the Will Mastin Trio in his billing. Mastin and his father shielded him from racism. Snubs were explained as jealousy, for instance. When Davis served in the United States Army during World War II, however, he was confronted by strong racial prejudice. He later said, "Overnight the world looked different. It wasn't one color any more. I could see the protection I'd gotten all my life from my father and Will. I appreciated their loving hope that I'd never need to know about prejudice and hate, but they were wrong. It was as if I'd walked through a swinging door for eighteen years, a door which they had always secretly held open."

Career [link]

Sammy Davis Jr. during the 1963 March on Washington

During service in WWII, the Army assigned Davis to an integrated entertainment Special Services unit and he found that the spotlight lessened the prejudice. Even prejudiced white men admired and respected his performances. "My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking," he said.^[8]

After his discharge, Davis rejoined the family dance act, which played at clubs around Portland, Oregon. He began to achieve success on his own and was singled out for praise by critics, releasing several albums.^[9] This led to Davis being hired to sing the title track for the Universal Pictures film Six Bridges to Cross in 1954,^[10]^[11] and later to his appearance in the Broadway play Mr. Wonderful in 1956.

In 1959, Davis became a member of the famous "Rat Pack", led by his friend Frank Sinatra, which included fellow performers such as Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford. Initially, Sinatra called the gathering "the Clan", but Sammy voiced his opposition, saying that it reminded people of the racist Ku Klux Klan. Sinatra renamed the group "the Summit", but the media referred to them as the Rat Pack.

Davis was a headliner at The Frontier Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, but he was required (as were all black performers in the 1950s) to lodge in a rooming house on the west side of the city, instead of in the hotels as his white colleagues did. No dressing rooms were provided for black performers, and they had to wait outside by the swimming pool between acts. Davis and other black artists could entertain, but could not stay at the hotels where they performed, gamble in the casinos, or dine or drink in the hotel restaurants and bars. Davis later refused to work at places which practiced racial segregation.^[12]

Sammy Davis Jr. (left) with Walter Reuther (center) and Roy Wilkins (right) at the 1963 March on Washington.

In 1964, Davis was starring in Golden Boy at night and shooting his own New York-based afternoon talk show during the day. When he could get a day off from the theater, he would be recording new songs in the studio, or performing live, often at charity benefits as far away as Miami, Chicago, and Las Vegas, or doing television variety specials in Los Angeles. Davis knew he was cheating his family of his company, but he could not help himself; as he later said, he was incapable of standing still.

Although he was still a draw in Las Vegas, Davis' musical career had sputtered by the latter 1960s, although he had a No. 11 hit (#1 on the Easy Listening singles chart) with "I've Gotta Be Me" in 1969. His effort to update his sound and reconnect with younger people resulted in some "hip" musical efforts with the Motown record label.^[13] But then, even as his career seemed at its nadir, Sammy had an unexpected hit with "Candy Man". Although he did not particularly care for the song and was chagrined that he was now best known for it, Davis made the most of his opportunity and revitalized his career. Although he enjoyed no more Top 40 hits, he did enjoy popularity with his 1976 performance of the theme song from the Baretta TV series, "Baretta's Theme (Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow)" (1975–1978), which was released as a single (20th century 2282). He occasionally landed television and film parts, including cameo visits to the television shows "I Dream of Jeannie", All in the Family (during which he famously kisses Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) on the cheek) and, with wife Altovise Davis, on Charlie's Angels. In the 1970s, he appeared in commercials in Japan for Suntory whiskey.

Davis performing in 1966.

On December 11, 1967, NBC broadcast a musical-variety special entitled Movin' With Nancy. In addition to the Emmy Award-winning musical performances, the show is notable for Nancy Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. greeting each other with a kiss, one of the first black-white kisses in U.S. television history.^[14]

It's been said^{[by whom?]} Davis had a friendship with Elvis Presley. Davis sang a cover-version of Presley's song "In The Ghetto" and made a cameo-appearance in Presley's concert-film Elvis: That's the Way It Is. One year later, he made a cameo appearance in a James Bond film, but the scene he appeared in was deleted.

In Japan, Davis appeared in television commercials for coffee, and in the U.S. he joined Sinatra and Martin in a radio commercial for a Chicago car dealership.

Davis was a fan of the daytime soap operas, particularly the shows produced by the American Broadcasting Company. This led to a cameo appearance on General Hospital and a recurring role as character Chip Warren on One Life to Live, for which he received a Daytime Emmy nomination in 1980. He was also a game show fan, appearing on the ABC version of Family Feud in 1979. He appeared on Tattletales with third wife Altovise Davis in the 1970s. He made a cameo during an episode of the NBC version of Card Sharks in 1981.

In addition to American soaps, he was also a huge fan of the Australian show Prisoner: Cell Block H. Davis wanted to make an appearance in Prisoner, but the show ended (in 1986) before this could be arranged.

Davis was an avid photographer who enjoyed shooting family and acquaintances. His body of work was detailed in a 2007 book by Burt Boyar. "Jerry [Lewis] gave me my first important camera, my first 35 millimeter, during the Ciro's period, early '50s", Boyar quotes Davis. "And he hooked me." Davis used a medium format camera later on to capture images. Again quoting Davis, "Nobody interrupts a man taking a picture to ask ... 'What's that nigger doin' here?'". His catalog includes rare photos of his father dancing onstage as part of the Will Mastin Trio and intimate snapshots of close friends Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, James Dean, Nat "King" Cole, and Marilyn Monroe. His political affiliations also were represented, in his images of Robert Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. His most revealing work comes in photographs of wife May Britt and their three children, Tracey, Jeff and Mark.

Davis was an enthusiastic shooter and gun owner. He participated in fast-draw competitions—Johnny Cash recalled that Sammy was said to be capable of drawing and firing a Colt Single Action Army revolver in less than a quarter of a second.^[15] Davis was skilled at fast and fancy gunspinning, and appeared on TV variety shows showing off this skill. He appeared in Western films and as a guest star on several "Golden Age" T.V. Westerns.

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Car accident and conversion to Judaism [link]

Davis nearly died in an automobile accident on November 19, 1954 in San Bernardino, California, as he was making a return trip from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.^[16] The accident occurred at a fork in U.S. Highway 66 at Cajon Boulevard and Kendall Drive (34°12′26″N 117°23′08″W / 34.2072°N 117.3855°W / 34.2072; -117.3855). Davis lost his left eye as a result. His friend, actor Jeff Chandler, offered one of his own eyes if it would keep Davis from total blindness. The offer was not needed.^[17] Davis wore an eye patch for at least six months following the accident.^[18]^[19] He appeared on What's My Line wearing the patch.^[20] Later, he was fitted for a glass eye, which he wore for the rest of his life.

While in the hospital, Davis' friend, performer Eddie Cantor, told him about the similarities between the Jewish and black cultures. Prompted by this conversation, Davis—who was born to a Catholic mother and Protestant father—began studying the history of Jews. He converted to Judaism several years later.^[1] One passage from his readings (from the book A History of The Jews by Abram L. Sachar), describing the endurance of the Jewish people, intrigued him in particular: "The Jews would not die. Three millennia of prophetic teaching had given them an unwavering spirit of resignation and had created in them a will to live which no disaster could crush".^[21] In many ways, the accident marked a turning point in Davis' career, taking him from a well-known entertainer to a national celebrity and icon.^[16]

Marriages [link]

In the mid-1950s, Sammy was involved with Kim Novak, a film star under contract to Columbia Studios. The head of the studio, Harry Cohn, was worried about the negative effect this would have on the studio because of the prevailing taboo against miscegenation. He called his friend, the mobster Johnny Roselli, who was asked to tell Davis that he had to stop the affair with Novak. Roselli arranged for Davis to be kidnapped for a few hours to throw a scare into him. His hastily arranged and soon-dissolved marriage to black dancer Loray White in 1958 was an attempt to quiet the controversy.^[22]

In 1960, Davis caused controversy again when he married white Swedish-born actress May Britt. Davis received hate mail while starring in the Broadway musical adaptation of Golden Boy from 1964–66 (for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor). At the time Davis appeared in the play, interracial marriages were forbidden by law in 31 US states, and only in 1967 were those laws ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.^[23] Davis and Britt had one daughter and adopted two sons. Davis performed almost continuously and spent little time with his wife. They divorced in 1968, after Davis admitted to having had an affair with singer Lola Falana. That year, Davis started dating Altovise Gore, a dancer in Golden Boy. They were married on May 11, 1970 by the Reverend Jesse Jackson. They adopted a child and remained married until Davis's death in 1990.

Political beliefs [link]

Sammy Davis, Jr. in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House with President Richard Nixon, March 4, 1973

Although Davis had been voting Democratic, he felt a lack of respect from the John F. Kennedy presidency. He had been removed from the list of performers for Kennedy's inaugural party (hosted by Davis' close friend Frank Sinatra) because of Davis' recent interracial marriage to May Britt on November 13, 1960, in order to quell any controversy.^[24]

In the early 1970s, Davis supported Republican President Richard M. Nixon (and gave the startled President a hug during a live television broadcast). The incident was controversial, and Davis was given a hostile reception by his peers. Previously Davis had won their respect with his performance as Joe Wellington Jr. in Golden Boy and his participation in the Civil Rights Movement. Nixon invited Davis to sleep in the White House in 1973, which is believed^{[by whom?]} to be the first time an African American was invited to do so.^{[citation needed]} Davis spent the night in the Queens' Bedroom.^[25] Unlike Sinatra, Davis voted Democratic for President again after the Nixon administration, supporting the campaigns of Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988.

Death [link]

Davis died in Beverly Hills, California on May 16, 1990, of complications from throat cancer. Earlier, when he was told that surgery (laryngectomy) offered him the best chance of survival, Davis replied he would rather keep his voice than have a part of his throat removed; he subsequently was treated with a combination of chemotherapy and radiation.^[26] However, a few weeks prior to his death his entire larynx was removed during surgery.^[27] He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California next to his father and Will Mastin.

On May 18, 1990, two days after Davis' death, the neon lights of the Las Vegas Strip were darkened for ten minutes, as a tribute to him.

Portrayals [link]

Davis in 1989

Davis was portrayed by Don Cheadle in the HBO film The Rat Pack, a television film about the pack of entertainers. Cheadle won a Golden Globe award for his performance.

Eddie Griffin has made his impersonation of Davis a major part of his career, be it at stage or TV.

On Saturday Night Live, Davis has been portrayed by Garrett Morris, Eddie Murphy, Billy Crystal and Tim Meadows.

Davis was portrayed on the popular sketch comedy show In Living Color by Tommy Davidson, notably a parody of the film Ghost, in which the ghost of Davis enlists the help of Whoopi Goldberg to communicate with his wife.

David Raynr also portrayed Davis in the miniseries Sinatra, a television film about the life of Frank Sinatra.

Davis was portrayed by Keith Powell in an episode of 30 Rock entitled "Subway Hero".

In the 1993 film Wayne's World 2, Tim Meadows portrays Davis in the dream sequence with Michael A. Nickles as Jim Morrison.

He was portrayed by Paul Sharma in the 2003 West End production Rat Pack Confidential.^[28]

In September 2009, the musical Sammy: Once in a Lifetime premiered at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego with book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, and additional songs by Bricusse and Anthony Newley. The title role was played by Broadway Tony Award nominee Obba Babatundé.

Davis was mentioned in British singer Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black on the song "Me and Mr. Jones". The lyrics are as follows: "Aside from Sammy you're my best black Jew."

A black and white portrait of Davis, drawn by Jim Blanchard, adorns the cover of avant-garde rock band Oxbow's second album King Of The Jews.

Midwest radio personality Kevin Matthews impersonated Sammy Davis, Jr. many times on his radio show.

Comedian Jim Carrey has portrayed Davis on stage in a stand up routine.

Discography [link]

Main article: Sammy Davis, Jr. discography

Honors and awards [link]

Grammy Awards [link]

Year	Category	Song	Result	Notes
2002	Grammy Hall of Fame Award	"What Kind of Fool Am I?"	Inducted	Recorded in 1962
2001	Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award		Winner
1972	Pop Male Vocalist	"Candy Man"	Nominee
1962	Record of the Year	"What Kind of Fool Am I"	Nominee
1962	Male Solo Vocal Performance	"What Kind of Fool Am I"	Nominee

Emmy Awards [link]

Year	Category	Program	Result
	Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy	Sammy Davis Jr.'s 60th Anniversary Celebration	Winner^[29]
1989	Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series	The Cosby Show	Nominee
1980	Outstanding Cameo Appearance in a Daytime Drama Series	One Life to Live	Nominee
1966	Outstanding Variety Special	The Swinging World of Sammy Davis Jr.	Nominee
1956	Best Specialty Act — Single or Group	Sammy Davis Jr.	Nominee

Other honors [link]

Year	Category	Organization	Program	Result
2008	International Civil Rights Walk of Fame	Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site		Inducted
2006	Las Vegas Walk of Stars^[30]	front of Riviera Hotel		Inducted
1989	NAACP Image Award	NAACP		Winner
1987	Kennedy Center Honors	John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts		Honoree
1977	Best TV Actor — Musical/Comedy	Golden Globe	Sammy and Company (1975)	Nominee
1974	Special Citation Award	National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences		Winner
1968	NAACP Spingarn Medal Award	NAACP		Winner
1965	Best Actor — Musical	Tony Award	Golden Boy	Nominee
1960^[31]	Hollywood Walk of Fame			Star at 6254 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography [link]

Rufus Jones for President (1933)
Seasoned Greetings (1933)
Sweet and Low (1947)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Anna Lucasta (1959)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Ocean's 11 (1960)
Pepe (1960)
Sergeants 3 (1962)
The Threepenny Opera (1962)
Convicts 4 (1962)
Johnny Cool (1963)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
The Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World (1965)(title song)
A Man Called Adam (1966)
Alice in Wonderland (or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?) (1966)
Salt and Pepper (1968)
The Fall (1969)

Sweet Charity (1969)
One More Time (1970)
Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971; deleted scene)
Save the Children (1973)
Gone with the West (1975)
Sammy Stops the World (1978)
The Cannonball Run (1981)
Heidi's Song (1982)
Cracking Up (1983)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Cannonball Run II (1984)
Alice in Wonderland (1985)
That's Dancing! (1985)
Knights of the City (1986)
The Perils of P.K. (1986)
Moon Over Parador (1988)
Tap (1989)
The Kid Who Loved Christmas (1990, last role)

Stage [link]

Mr. Wonderful (1957), musical
Golden Boy (1964), musical – Tony Nomination for Best Actor in a Musical
Sammy (1974), special performance featuring Davis with the Nicholas Brothers
Stop the World - I Want to Get Off (1978) musical revival

TV [link]

The Rifleman – episode "Two Ounces of Tin (#4.21)" (February 19, 1962).
Ben Casey – episode "Allie" (1963).
The Patty Duke Show - episode "Will the Real Sammy Davis Please Hang Up?" (1965).
Wild Wild West – episode "The Night of the Returning Dead" (October 14, 1966).
I Dream of Jeannie – episode "The Greatest Entertainer in the World" (1967).
The Name Of The Game - episode "I Love You, Billy Baker." (1970).
All in the Family – episode "Sammy's Visit" (1972).
Charlie's Angels - episode "Sammy Davis, Jr. Kidnap Caper" (1977).
The Jeffersons episode "What Makes Sammy Run?" (1984).
Gimme a Break – episode "The Lookalike" (1985).
The Cosby Show – episode "No Way, Baby" (1989). (After Davis' death in 1990, Bill Cosby wore a black pin with Davis' initials printed in white for an entire season of the show.)

References [link]

^ ^a ^b Religion: Jewish Negro Time Magazine February 1, 1960
^ Sammy Davis Jr. Is My Mixed Marriage Mixing Up My Kids – Ebony Magazine October, 1966 pg. 124
^ Rebecca Dube Menorah Illuminates Davis Jr.’s Judaism The Forward May 29, 2009
^ "Elvera Sanchez Davis, obituary, September 8, 2000". New York Times. September 8, 2000. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E5DB1239F93BA3575AC0A9669C8B63. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
^ Time writers (October 23, 2003). "What Made Sammy Dance?". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005947,00.html. Retrieved May 14, 2008.
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^ "Sammy Davis Jr.". Oral Cancer Foundation. February 6, 2008. http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/people/sammy_davis.htm. Retrieved May 14, 2008.
^ E.g. Billboard, July 25, 1953, p. 11.
^ Haygood, Wil (October 7, 2003). In black and white: the life of Sammy Davis Jr. A.A. Knopf. p. 156. http://books.google.com/books?id=3R1aAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
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^ Sammy Davis Jr., Burt Boyar, and Jane Boyar, Sammy: The Autobiography of Sammy Davis Jr. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).
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^ Las Vegas Walk of Stars
^ "SAMMY DAVIS, JR.". http://www.hollywoodchamber.net.vhost.zerolag.com/single-result?sname=Sammy%20Davis,%20Jr.&type=Recording&returnname=sammy%20davis,%20jr.&page=star-name-search&id=522&rows=1. Retrieved June 11, 2010. "inducted on August 2, 1960"

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v t e Rat Pack

Members	Frank Sinatra Dean Martin Sammy Davis, Jr. Peter Lawford Joey Bishop Humphrey Bogart

Associates	Shirley MacLaine Lauren Bacall Angie Dickinson Marilyn Monroe Judy Garland Norman Fell

Films	4 for Texas Marriage on the Rocks Ocean's 11 Robin and the 7 Hoods Sergeants 3 Some Came Running Texas Across the River

v t e Hosts of the Academy Awards ceremonies (1961–1980)

Bob Hope (1961) Bob Hope (1962) Frank Sinatra (1963) Jack Lemmon (1964) Bob Hope (1965) Bob Hope (1966) Bob Hope (1967) Bob Hope (1968) None (1969) None (1970) None (1971) Helen Hayes / Alan King / Sammy Davis, Jr. / Jack Lemmon (1972) Carol Burnett / Michael Caine / Charlton Heston / Rock Hudson (1973) John Huston / Burt Reynolds / David Niven / Diana Ross (1974) Sammy Davis, Jr. / Bob Hope / Shirley MacLaine / Frank Sinatra (1975) Goldie Hawn / Gene Kelly / Walter Matthau / George Segal / Robert Shaw (1976) Warren Beatty / Ellen Burstyn / Jane Fonda / Richard Pryor (1977) Bob Hope (1978) Johnny Carson (1979) Johnny Carson (1980)

Complete list (1927–1940) (1941–1960) (1961–1980) (1981–2000) (2001–2020)

v t e Kennedy Center Honorees (1980s)

1980	Leonard Bernstein James Cagney Agnes de Mille Lynn Fontanne Leontyne Price

1981	Count Basie Cary Grant Helen Hayes Jerome Robbins Rudolf Serkin

1982	George Abbott Lillian Gish Benny Goodman Gene Kelly Eugene Ormandy

1983	Katherine Dunham Elia Kazan Frank Sinatra James Stewart Virgil Thomson

1984	Lena Horne Danny Kaye Gian Carlo Menotti Arthur Miller Isaac Stern

1985	Merce Cunningham Irene Dunne Bob Hope Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe Beverly Sills

1986	Lucille Ball Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy Yehudi Menuhin Antony Tudor Ray Charles

1987	Perry Como Bette Davis Sammy Davis, Jr. Nathan Milstein Alwin Nikolais

1988	Alvin Ailey George Burns Myrna Loy Alexander Schneider Roger L. Stevens

1989	Harry Belafonte Claudette Colbert Alexandra Danilova Mary Martin William Schuman

complete list 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

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Name	Davis, Sammy, Jr.
Alternative names	Davis, Samuel George, Jr.
Short description	Actor, singer, dancer
Date of birth	December 8, 1925
Place of birth	Bronx, New York City
Date of death	May 16, 1990
Place of death	Beverly Hills, California

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Steve Gadd
Gadd in 2007
Background information
Birth name	Stephen Kendall Gadd
Born	(1945-04-09) April 9, 1945 (age 67) Irondequoit, New York, United States
Genres	Jazz, post-bop, jazz fusion rock music, blues, R&B
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Drums, percussion
Years active	1968-present
Website	www.drstevegadd.com

Steve Gadd (born April 9, 1945^[1] in Irondequoit, New York) is an American session and studio drummer, notable for his work with popular musicians from a wide range of genres.

1 Biography
2 Session work
- 2.1 1970s
- 2.2 1980s
- 2.3 1990s
- 2.4 2000s
- 2.5 2010s
3 Equipment
4 Discography
5 References
6 External links

Biography [link]

Gadd is a native of Irondequoit, New York, a suburb of Rochester, New York. When he was seven years old, his uncle, who was a drummer in the US army, encouraged him to take drum lessons. By the age of eleven he had sat in with Dizzy Gillespie.

After graduating from Irondequoit's Eastridge High School, he attended the Manhattan School of Music for two years before transferring to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, playing in wind ensembles and concert bands. After Gadd finished college in the late 1960s, he played regularly with Chuck Mangione and his brother Gap Mangione. His first recording was on Gap Mangione's debut solo album, Diana in the Autumn Wind (1968).

Gadd was drafted into the U.S. Army and spent three years as a drummer in the Army Music Program, most of which was spent with the Jazz Ambassadors of the U.S. Army Field Band in Ft. Meade, MD. While living in the Washington DC area, he briefly took lessons from the noted jazz drummer, Michael S. Smith. Following his military service, Gadd played and worked with a band in Rochester. In 1972, Gadd formed a trio with Tony Levin and Mike Holmes, traveling to New York with them. The trio eventually broke up, but Gadd began to work mainly as a studio musician. Gadd also played with Chick Corea's Return to Forever but left the group.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he toured internationally, and recorded with Paul Simon and also with Al Di Meola's Electric Rendezvous Band. In response to confusion over another drummer by the same name, Gadd, while on his We're on a Mission from Gadd tour in 2005, told fans that was not him. Gadd said, "I've never met the other Steve Gadd. We happened to stay in the same hotel once, though. I kept getting his messages and apparently he was getting mine."

In 1976, Gadd and other session musicians in New York City, including Richard Tee, Eric Gale and Cornell Dupree, formed the group Stuff. Their work included appearances on NBC's Saturday Night Live, both performing on their own and backing Joe Cocker.

By the end of the 1970s, Steve Gadd was an accomplished drummer, with transcriptions of his drum solos on sale in Japan. Chick Corea once commented, "Every drummer wants to play like Gadd because he plays perfect ... He has brought orchestral and compositional thinking to the drum kit while at the same time having a great imagination and a great ability to swing."^[2]

In 2005, along with Abraham Laboriel, Patrice Rushen and others, Gadd was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music for outstanding contributions to contemporary music.^[3]^[4]

The song "A Little Green Rosetta" from the Frank Zappa album Joe's Garage lampoons Steve Gadd's status as one of the highest paid session drummers in popular music.^{[citation needed]}

Session work [link]

A short list of musicians with whom Gadd has worked include Kate Bush, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Steely Dan, Al Jarreau, Joe Cocker, Stuff, Bob James, Chick Corea, Eric Clapton, Pino Daniele, James Taylor, Jim Croce, Eddie Gomez, The Manhattan Transfer, Michal Urbaniak, Steps Ahead, Al Di Meola, Manhattan Jazz Quintet, Carly Simon, Richard Tee, Jon Bon Jovi, Chet Baker, Paul Desmond, The Bee Gees, Michael McDonald, and David Sanborn.

1970s [link]

In 1975, Gadd played drums on "The Hustle" by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony. That same year, he also played the recognizable drum intro and beat behind Paul Simon's hit, "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover". Gadd demonstrated the strengths in his work on the title track of Steely Dan's Aja album – highlighted by Gadd's drum punctuation in the coda of the title cut. Corea's straight-ahead jazz albums Friends and Three Quartets, as well as Jim Hall's 1975 album Concierto are some more examples of Gadd's jazz playing. In 1979, Gadd performed a drum solo on Carly Simon's "SPY" LP.

1980s [link]

In 1981, Gadd played in the famous Simon & Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park. He was a featured performer and actor in the 1980 motion picture One Trick Pony starring Paul Simon. Simon's hit "Late in the Evening" was the movie's main title in which Gadd implemented the "Mozambique", a Cuban dance rhythm, into the song.

1990s [link]

Gadd recorded and toured with Eric Clapton in 1994/1996 and again from 1997 to 2004. 1997 also saw him on a world tour in a trio with the French jazz great Michel Petrucciani and his Paul Simon band colleague, bassist Anthony Jackson (captured on the "Trio in Tokyo" CD and "Live in Stuttgart" DVD/VHS).

2000s [link]

In 2009, Gadd returned to Clapton's band to play 11 nights at the Royal Albert Hall and was part of Clapton's touring band throughout May 2009.

Also in 2009, Gadd reunited with his band from 1973, "L'Image", featuring Mike Mainieri, Warren Bernhardt, David Spinozza and Tony Levin. The group performed at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City, toured Japan, and released the album "L'Image 2.0".

2010s [link]

Played next to Eric Clapton at Crossroads show. In 2011, Gadd worked with Kate Bush on her "50 Words for Snow" album. Kate Bush was interviewed by Jamie Cullum and told him that she had wanted to work with Steve Gadd for a long time but had not had the courage to approach him. She described Steve Gadd as "a sweet person, really down to earth" and said that "his interpretation of music is so sophisticated". She said she loved working with him and that there was a real chemistry that started to click in.

Equipment [link]

Steve Gadd uses Yamaha drums, which he has played since 1976. He has recently changed his gear to a setup consisting of "Birch Custom Absolute" toms and a maple bass drum. He also uses a chrome Yamaha Recording Custom Steel Shell snare drum.

He has been asked to contribute his ideas to develop his own signature series Zildjian K Custom Session cymbals.

Gadd also has Vic Firth sticks with his signature on them. The drumsticks are a very light, thin kind, black in color, and normal "wood color" on the tips. There is also an identical model with nylon tips. The stick is also slightly shorter than the American Classic 5A, and features a barrel tip for improved recording sound. It is 15+³⁄₄ in (40.0 cm) long and the diameter is .550 in (1.40 cm). Along with having his own signature stick, he also has his own signature brushes. These brushes are intended to solve the problem of wire brushes snagging on new coated drumheads by slightly angling the wires in the top 3/4” (1.9 cm) of the playing end. The wires glide across the head, allowing a smoother sweep and a velvet swish sound.

Gadd uses a variety of Remo heads: a coated Powerstroke 3 on the batter side of the snare, coated Pinstripes or coated Ambassadors on the batter sides of toms, and clear Ambassadors for the resonant sides. He uses a Pinstripe on the bass drum.^[5]^[6]

Discography [link]

As Steve Gadd & Friends

Live At Voce - Deluxe Edition (2010) [BFM Jazz]

As Steve Gadd/ with the Gadd Gang:

Gadd About (1984)
The Gadd Gang (1986)
Pigs and Wizards (1987)
Here & Now (1988)
Live at Bottom Line (1988)
Gadd Gang (1991)

With Stuff:

Stuff (1976)
Stuff It (1978)
Live Stuff (1978)
Live In New York (1980)
East (1981)
Best Stuff (1981)

With Patti Austin:

End of a Rainbow (CTI, 1976)

With B.B. King:

Riding with the King

With Chick Corea:

My Spanish Heart
Friends
Three Quartets
The Leprechaun
The Mad Hatter
Rendezvous in New York
The Ultimate Adventure
(the unreleased version of Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy)

With Steely Dan:

Aja on (title track)
Gaucho on ("Glamour Profession", "My Rival", "Third World Man", the title track and 'percussion' on "Hey Nineteen")

With Simon and Garfunkel:

The Concert in Central Park

With The Manhattan Transfer:

Mecca for Moderns
Pastiche

With Paul Simon:

With Steps Ahead:

Smokin' in the Pit

With George Benson:

Bad Benson
Pacific Fire
GB
In Your Eyes
Livin' Inside Your Love
Good King Bad (CTI, 1975)
In Concert-Carnegie Hall (CTI, 1975)

With Joe Brucato:

Free (2007)
Acoustic Joe Vol. 1 (2009)
Thank You Soldier (2010)

With Eric Clapton:

Live at Hyde Park (DVD)
Pilgrim
Reptile
Riding with the King
One More Car, One More Rider
Me and Mr. Johnson
Sessions for Robert J.
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004
Back Home
Clapton Chronicles

With James Brown:

Black Caesar

With Art Farmer

Crawl Space (CTI, 1977)
Big Blues (CTI, 1978) with Jim Hall
Yama with Joe Henderson (CTI, 1979)

With Milt Jackson:

Goodbye (CTI, 1973)

With Hubert Laws:

In the Beginning (CTI, 1974)
The Chicago Theme (CTI, 1974)

With Yusef Lateef:

In a Temple Garden (CTI, 1979)

With Jackie and Roy:

A Wilder Alias (CTI, 1973)

With Al Jarreau:

Tenderness
Breakin' Away
Jarreau
This Time

With Rickie Lee Jones:

Rickie Lee Jones
Pirates
Magazine

With Paul McCartney:

Tug Of War
Pipes Of Peace

With Chuck Mangione:

Disguise
Tarantella
Main Squeeze
Land of Make Believe
Alive
Together
Friends And Love

With Michel Petrucciani:

Trio in Tokyo
Both Worlds

With Al Di Meola:

Casino
Elegant Gypsy
Orange and Blue
Tour de Force Live
Electric Rendezvous
Splendido Hotel
Land of the Midnight Sun
Consequence of Chaos

With Lee Ritenour:

Feel the Night
Captains Journey
Friendship

With Bob James

BJ4 (1977)
Touchdown (1978)
Lucky Seven (1979) (Tracks "Rush Hour" and "Blue Lick")

With Michel Jonasz:

Michel Jonasz au Zénith (1993)
Où vont les rêves (2002)

With Sunlightsquare:

Urban Sessions (2006)

With Weather Report

Mr Gone (1978) (Tracks "Young and Fine" and "And Then")

With Funk Factory

Funk Factory (1975) (Tracks "Watusi Dance", "Rien Ne Va Plus", "Funk It" and "Lilliput")

With Lalo Schifrin

Towering Toccata (CTI, 1976)

With Jeremy Steig

Firefly (CTI, 1977)

With James Taylor

New Moon Shine, 1991
October Road, 2002^[7]
James Taylor: A Christmas Album, 2006^[7]
Covers, 2008
Other Covers, 2009

With Art Garfunkel

Some Enchanted Evening, 2007^[7]
Songs from a Parent to a Child, 1997^[7]

With L'Image

L'Image 2.0, 2009

With Lesley Meguid

The Truth About Love Songs, 2010

With Chet Baker

She Was Too Good to Me, 1974

With Don Sebesky

The Rape of El Morro (CTI, 1975)

With Masahiko Satoh

Amorphism, 1985

With Kate Bush:

Director's Cut, 2011
50 Words for Snow, 2011

References [link]

^ Braman, Chuck; Kernfeld, Barry (2002). "Gadd, Steve". In Barry Kernfeld. The new Grove dictionary of jazz, vol. 2 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc.. p. 2. ISBN 1561592846.
^ Bosso, Joe. "Steve Gadd on playing with Clapton, McCartney, and his own band". Musicradar.com 5 Jul 2010. Accessed 6 May 2011.
^ "Honorary Degree Recipients", Berklee College of Music website
^ Cf. Gadd's official website
^ The Official Steve Gadd Website: Set Up Accessed 14 June 2009
^ Yard Gavrilovic: Steve Gadd's Drum Tech Accessed 10 July 2010
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Official website: discography". Drstevegadd.com. 1991-08-15. http://www.drstevegadd.com/discography.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-15.

External links [link]

Gadd's official website
Steve Gadd at Drummerworld - contains video and sound clips.
Steve Gadd page on The Party Of The Century project - contains video and sound clips.
Steve Gadd at OnlineDrummer - contains video clips.
Steve Gadd at BehindTheDrums - contains discography and equipment list.
BFM Jazz

Persondata
Name	Gadd, Steve
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1945-04-09
Place of birth	Irondequoit, New York, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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Gregory Hines
File:Gregory Hines.jpg
Born	Gregory Oliver Hines (1946-02-14)February 14, 1946 New York City, New York
Died	August 9, 2003(2003-08-09) (aged 57) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Actor, singer, dancer, choreographer
Years active	1954–2003
Spouse	Patricia Panella (m. 1968) Pamela Koslow (1981–2000)

Gregory Oliver Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer.

1 Early years
2 Career
3 Personal life
- 3.1 Death
4 Awards and nominations
5 Filmography
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Early years [link]

Born in New York City to Maurice Hines Sr. and Alma Hines, Gregory Hines began tapping when he was around three years old, and began dancing semi-professionally at the age of five. Since then, he and his older brother Maurice performed together, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang. The two brothers were known as "The Hines Kids", making nightclub appearances, and later as "The Hines Brothers". When their father joined, Maurice Hines, Sr., the name changed again in 1963 to "Hines, Hines, and Dad".

Career [link]

Hines performed as the lead singer and musician in a rock band called Severance in 1975/1976 based in Venice, California. Severance was one of the house bands at an original music club called Honky Hoagies Handy Hangout, otherwise known as the 4H Club. In 1986, he sang a duet with Luther Vandross, entitled "There's Nothing Better Than Love", which reached the #1 position on the Billboard R&B charts.^[1]

Hines made his movie debut in Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part 1. Critics took note of Hines's comedic charm, and he later appeared in such movies as The Cotton Club, White Nights, Running Scared, Tap, and Waiting to Exhale. On television, he starred in his own series in 1997 called The Gregory Hines Show on CBS, as well as in the recurring role of Ben Doucette on Will & Grace. In 1999, Hines made his return on television with Nick Jr.'s Little Bill, as the voice of Big Bill.

Hines made his Broadway debut with his brother in The Girl in Pink Tights in 1954. He earned Tony Award nominations for Eubie! (1979), Comin' Uptown (1980) and Sophisticated Ladies (1981), and won the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Jelly's Last Jam (1992) and the Theatre World Award for Eubie!. He also co-hosted the Tony Awards ceremony in 1995 and 2002.^[2]

In 1990, Hines visited with his idol, Sammy Davis, Jr., as he was dying of throat cancer, unable to speak. After Davis died, an emotional Hines spoke at Davis's funeral of how Sammy had made a gesture to him, "as if passing a basketball … and I caught it." Hines spoke of the honor that Sammy thought that Hines could carry on from where he left off.^[3]^{[dead link]}

Hines was an avid improviser. He did a lot of improvisation of tap steps, tap sounds, and tap rhythms alike. His improvisation was like that of a drummer, doing a solo and coming up with all sorts of rhythms. He also improvised the phrasing of a number of tap steps that he would come up with, mainly based on sound produced. A laid back dancer, he usually wore nice pants and a loose-fitting shirt. Although he inherited the roots and tradition of the black rhythmic tap, he also influenced the new black rhythmic tap, as a proponent. "'He purposely obliterated the tempos,' wrote tap historian Sally Sommer, 'throwing down a cascade of taps like pebbles tossed across the floor. In that moment, he aligned tap with the latest free-form experiments in jazz and new music and postmodern dance.'"^[4]

Throughout his career, Hines wanted to and continued to be an advocate for tap in America. In 1988, he successfully petitioned the creation of National Tap Dance Day, which is now celebrated in 40 cities in the United States. It is also celebrated in eight other nations. Gregory Hines was on the Board of Directors of Manhattan Tap, he was a member of the Jazz Tap Ensemble, and a member of the American Tap Foundation (formerly the American Tap Dance Orchestra). He was a good teacher, influencing tap dance artists Savion Glover, Dianne Walker, Ted Levy, and Jane Goldberg.^[4]

Personal life [link]

Hines' marriages to Patricia Panella and Pamela Koslow ended in divorce.

Death [link]

Hines died of liver cancer at 57, on August 9, 2003, en route to hospital from his home in Los Angeles. He had been diagnosed with the disease more than a year earlier but had informed only his closest friends. In addition to his father and brother, he is survived by his daughter, Daria; a son, Zach; stepdaughter, Jessica Koslow; and a grandson. At the time of his death, he was engaged to Negrita Jayde.^[5] Hines is interred at Saint Volodymyr's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in Oakville, Ontario. Following his death, the television series Lost at Home, in which he was featured, was canceled.

Awards and nominations [link]

Awards

1979 Theatre World Award—Eubie!
1992 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical—Jelly's Last Jam
1992 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actor in a Musical—Jelly's Last Jam
1988 Image Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture—Running Scared
1998 Flo-Bert Award—Lifetime Achievement in Tap Dance by the New York Committee To Celebrate National Tap Dance Day
2002 Image Awards Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special—Bojangles
2002 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program—Little Bill

Nominations

1979 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical—Eubie!
1980 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical—Comin' Uptown
1981 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical—Sophisticated Ladies
1982 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement—Special Class—I Love Liberty
1985 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program—Motown Returns to the Apollo
1989 Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program—Tap Dance in America
1992 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Choreography—Jelly's Last Jam
1992 Tony Award for Best Choreography—Jelly's Last Jam
1995 Image Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Motion Picture—Waiting to Exhale
1998 American Comedy Awards Funniest Male Guest Appearance in a TV Series—Will & Grace
1998 Image Awards Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series—The Gregory Hines Show
2001 Black Reel Awards Network/Cable Best Actor—Bojangles
2001 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie—Bojangles
2001 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries—Bojangles
2002 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special—The Red Sneakers
2002 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program—The Red Sneakers

Filmography [link]

History of the World, Part I (1981)
Wolfen (1981)
Deal of the Century (1983)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
The Cotton Club (1984)
White Nights (1985)
Faerie Tale Theatre: "Puss in Boots" (1985)
Running Scared (1986)
Off Limits (1988)
Tap (1989)
Eve of Destruction (1991)
White Lie (1991)
A Rage in Harlem (1991)
Kangaroo Court (1994)
Renaissance Man (1994)
Dead Air (1994)
Waiting to Exhale (1995)
The Cherokee Kid (1996)
Good Luck (1996)
Mad Dog Time (1996)
The Preacher's Wife (1996)
Subway Stories: Tales From the Underground (1997)
The Tic Code (1999)
Little Bill (TV) (1999–2003, until his death)
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
Once in the Life (2000)
Will & Grace (TV) (2000)
Bojangles (2001)
Venice: Lost and Found (2002)
The Red Sneakers (TV) (2002)
The Root (2003)
Law & Order: (TV) "Suicide Box" (2003)
Lost at Home: (TV) (2003)
Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photography of Milt Hinton (2004)

References [link]

^ Luther Vandross Chart History
^ Mervyn Rothstein (1 September 1992). "The Man in the Dancing Shoes". Cigar Aficionado. http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,63,00.html. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
^ Jr. news (1992). "Gregory Hines Interview". sammydavis-jr. The Sammy Davis, Jr. Association. http://www.sammydavis-jr.com/Pages/read/hines/hines.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-09. ^{[dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Constance Valis Hill. "Biography of Gregory Hines". The New York Public Library. http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/55/node/70548. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
^ Jennifer Dunning (11 August 2003). "Gregory Hines, Versatile Dancer and Actor, Dies at 57". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/11/arts/gregory-hines-versatile-dancer-and-actor-dies-at-57.html. Retrieved 2008-06-09.

External links [link]

Gregory Hines at the Internet Broadway Database
Gregory Hines at the Internet Movie Database
Gregory Hines at Find a Grave
Blog of Death obituary
Tapping into history Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice. August, 2003.
TonyAwards.com Interview with Gregory Hines
Archival footage of Gregory Hines, Dianne Walker and Jimmy Slyde in 1996 at Jacob's Pillow

v t e Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical (1975–2000)

John Cullum (1975) Ian Richardson (1976) Lenny Baker (1977) Ken Page (1978) Len Cariou (1979) Jim Dale (1980) Kevin Kline (1981) George Hearn (1984) Ron Richardson (1985) George Rose (1986) Robert Lindsay (1987) Michael Crawford (1988) Jason Alexander (1989) James Naughton (1990) Jonathan Pryce (1991) Gregory Hines / Nathan Lane (1992) Brent Carver (1993) Boyd Gaines (1994) Vernel Bagneris (1995) Nathan Lane (1996) Robert Cuccioli (1997) Alan Cumming (1998) Brent Carver (1999) Brian Stokes Mitchell (2000)

Complete list (1975–2000) (2001–2025)

v t e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (1976–2000)

George Rose (1976) Barry Bostwick (1977) John Cullum (1978) Len Cariou (1979) Jim Dale (1980) Kevin Kline (1981) Ben Harney (1982) Tommy Tune (1983) George Hearn (1984) George Rose (1986) Robert Lindsay (1987) Michael Crawford (1988) Jason Alexander (1989) James Naughton (1990) Jonathan Pryce (1991) Gregory Hines (1992) Brent Carver (1993) Boyd Gaines (1994) Matthew Broderick (1995) Nathan Lane (1996) James Naughton (1997) Alan Cumming (1998) Martin Short (1999) Brian Stokes Mitchell (2000)

Complete list (1948–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

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Name	Hines, Gregory
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Date of birth	1946-02-14
Place of birth	New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of death	2003-08-09
Place of death	Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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