Maurice Hines, dancer and choreographer — and evangelist for the art of tap dancing — died Friday at age 80. Hines and his brother, the famed Gregory Hines, helped keep tap in the public eye.

The 1989 movie Tap includes a riveting scene in which Bunny Briggs croons a desperately lonesome version of Sunny Side of the Street while Gregory Hines stomps over to the East River and hurls his ...

Maurice Hines Jr., who hit the L.A. area when he was 70 for a Beverly Hills run of his show "Tappin' Through Life," has died at age 80. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) The scene from the movie ...

Maurice Hines Jr., who went from working in a tap-dancing act with brother Gregory Hines to becoming a tap trailblazer on Broadway, has died at age 80.

LIMBONG: The broad strokes of the movie parallels the real-life relationship between the Hines brothers. Maurice Hines was born in 1943. He started tap dancing at the age of 5. His younger brother, ...