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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]
Learn about the life and career of Charles 'Honi' Coles, a tap dancer and actor who appeared in Dirty Dancing, Rocky II and The Cotton Club. Find his biography, filmography, photos, videos and trivia on IMDb.
Nov 13, 1992 · Charles (Honi) Coles, a virtuosic tap dancer who won a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway musical "My One and Only" and whom Lena Horne once described as making "butterflies...
Nov 15, 2023 · Charles “Honi” Coles was an American rhythm tap dancer known for his speed and sophisticated style. He was a founding member of the Copasetics, as well as one-half of the popular vaudeville duo “Coles & Atkins,” whose song-and-dance routines epitomized the vaudeville class act—routines that countered blackface stereotypes.
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.
Nov 13, 1992 · Charles (Honi) Coles, the elegant hoofer who tap-danced over the decades for the cultural elite on Broadway and the criminally inclined in Prohibition-era speak-easies, died Thursday.
He was the manager of the Apollo Theater from 1960 to 1976 and served as the president of the Negro Actors Guild. Honi Coles was acclaimed for his elegance and grace, for which Lena Horne is quoted as saying, “He made butterflies seem clumsy.” DONATING = SUPPORT.
