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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]
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...
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.
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 · The tap dancer who won a Tony Award for "My One and Only" died of cancer at 81. He also appeared in "Cotton Club" and "Dirty Dancing" and worked as a theater manager and accountant.
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.
Charles 'Honi' Coles was born on 2 April 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Dirty Dancing (1987), Rocky II (1979) and The Cotton Club (1984). He was married to Marion Coles. He died on 12 November 1992 in New York City, New York, USA.
