Gregory Oliver Hines was born on Feb. 14, 1946, in New York City. He has said his mother urged him and his older brother toward tap dancing because she wanted them to have a way out of the ghetto.

Gregory Hines was lauded for his singing of "Low Down Blues" and his rat-tat-tat tapping during "Hot Feet." He won several awards, and was nominated for a Tony.

In 1994, Hines made his directorial bow with Bleeding Hearts (1994). In 1987 he released an album titled Gregory Hines in 1987.

He was never a major movie star. But when Gregory Hines appeared on screen, people were always glad to see him. This was especially true, of course, when he was dancing. In his first movie role ...

His movie credits included ‘‘White Nights'' (1985) with Mikhail Baryshnikov, and on TV he had his own sitcom, ‘‘The Gregory Hines Show'' (1997), and a recurring role on NBC's ‘‘Will ...

Gregory Hines, the Tony Award-winning tap-dancing actor who starred on Broadway as well as in many films, including "The Cotton Club," has died at the age of 57.

John Carluccio's documentary 'Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back' delivers a deeply personal portrait of the veteran performer and his tumultuous relationship with his brother Gregory.

Maurice Hines, who started tap dancing at the age of five, starred alongside his late brother Gregory Hines in the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie The Cotton Club.

The siblings most famously co-starred in the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie, Cotton Club. Gregory Hines died of cancer in 2003. But most of Maurice Hines' work was on the Broadway stage.