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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 ...
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 look...
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.
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- New York City, New York, USA
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 was born on April 2, 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 November 12, 1992 in New York City, New York, USA.
- April 2, 1911
- November 12, 1992
Nov 13, 1992 · Charles "Honi" Coles, 81, the elegant tap dancer who "made butterflies clumsy," died of cancer Nov. 12 at his home in New York. After decades of playing vaudeville and club...
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.
