A legend of tap dance for seven decades has died. Maurice Hines gained fame with his brother Gregory as the Hines Brothers, delighting audiences on stage, television, and film. Jeffrey Brown has our ...

Maurice Hines, a high-wattage song-and-dance man who rose to stardom as a child in a tap-dancing act with his brother, Gregory, then performed on and off Broadway, including in shows he directed and ...

Maurice Hines, Broadway star and tap dancing legend with brother Gregory, has died of natural causes at age 80. Broadway has lost one of its tap-dancing legends. Maurice Hines, the brother of the late ...

LOS ANGELES -- Gregory Hines, the innovative and influential tap dance star who became invaluable in the renewal of his art and also enjoyed wide success as a film and television actor, has died. He ...

Maurice Hines Jr., who hit the L.A. area when he was 70 for a Beverly Hills run of his show "Tappin' Through Life," has died at age 80. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) The scene from the movie ...

Maurice Hines, who appeared alongside his younger brother, Gregory Hines, in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club, has died. He was 80. The Broadway dancer, choreographer and actor passed away on ...

Gregory Oliver Hines was born on Feb. 14, 1946, in New York City. He has said his mother urged him and his older brother toward tap dancing because she wanted them to have a way out of the ghetto.

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Maurice Hines was a dancer, a choreographer and an evangelist for the art of tap dancing. He and his brother, the famed Gregory Hines, helped keep tap in the public eye. Maurice Hines died on Friday ...