More typically, he was cast in such buddy movies as "Deal of the Century ... Grace," helped revive popular interest in tap dancing. Gregory Hines, left, received his first Tony nomination ...

ANDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: In the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie "The Cotton Club," Maurice and Gregory Hines play the Williams brothers, two tap dancers in Prohibition-era Harlem. Morris plays Clay ...

Maurice was about 6 when he and Gregory made their professional debut as the tap-dancing Hines Kids ... roles that mirrored their lives. “In the movie, all our scenes were never scripted.

The siblings most famously co-starred in the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie, Cotton Club. Gregory Hines ... Maurice Hines was born in New York in 1943 and started tap dancing at the age of ...

The tap-dancing icon, whose younger brother Gregory Hines was also a dance legend, died at the Actors Fund Home, an assistant living facility in Englewood, New Jersey. “He was an amazing person ...

Broadway star and brother of fellow tap-dancing legend Gregory Hines, has died. He was 80. Maurice died on Friday of natural causes at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, an assisted ...

The Hines brothers inherited a tap-dance tradition on the ... who played in a jazz-rock band. And it was Gregory who became a star in Hollywood movies and again on Broadway in the 1984 Duke ...

ANDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: In the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie "The Cotton Club," Maurice and Gregory Hines play the Williams brothers, two tap dancers in Prohibition-era Harlem. Morris plays Clay, ...