- Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys
- 2 wins & 14 nominations total
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Credits
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Personal details
- Alternative names
- Hines - Hines and Dad
- Height
- 6′ (1.83 m)
- Born
- Died
- August 9, 2003
- Los Angeles, California, USA(liver cancer)
- SpousesPamela KoslowApril 12, 1981 - 2000 (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesCheryl Davis(Niece or Nephew)
- Other worksTV commercial for Cadillac (1998)
- Publicity listings
Did you know
- TriviaHe and Maurice Hines were cast as brothers in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984), set in the Harlem club where their grandmother had been one of the elite black entertainers performing for a whites-only audience in the twenties and thirties. Coppola encouraged the brothers to improvise so they based one scene on their real-life reunion in "Eubie!" and admitted the tears were real.
- TrademarkHe was also an accomplished tap dancer & many of his films feature him dancing
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