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Herb Jeffries (born Umberto Alexander Valentino; September 24, 1913 – May 25, 2014) was an American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known for his baritone voice.
Herb Jeffries was a versatile performer who starred in black-cast films, sang jazz and cowboy songs, and broke racial barriers in Hollywood. He was born in 1913, worked with Duke Ellington, and died in 2014 at age 100.
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- Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- West Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 26, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his malleable racial identity —...
May 27, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed in a series of all-black Western movies in the 1930s, has died at the age of 100. Known to cinema audiences as the Bronze Buckaroo, he...
May 26, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, who sang with the Duke Ellington Orchestra during the Swing Era and made movie history in the 1930s as “The Bronze Buckaroo,” the silver screen’s first black singing cowboy, has...
- Dennis Mclellan
Herb Jeffries. Actor: The Bronze Buckaroo. This velvet-toned jazz baritone and sometime actor was (and perhaps still is) virtually unknown to white audiences. Yet, back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Herb Jeffries was very big...in black-cast films.
Aug 15, 2002 · Suits in the walk-in closet of Herb Jeffries' Idyllwild home hang like troops standing in formation, sharply in order and arranged by color. Pairs of polished cowboy boots stand at attention on the top shelf like silent sentries.
