Gregory Hines died of cancer at age 57 in 2003. Maurice Hines continued to dance, performing on tour as recently as 2019. He died last Friday at age 80. For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Jeffrey Brown .

Maurice Hines, who appeared alongside his younger brother, Gregory Hines, in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club, has died. He was 80. The Broadway dancer, choreographer and actor passed away ...

His PBS special, "Gregory Hines: Tap Dance in America," was nominated in 1989, and in 1982 he was nominated for his performance in "I Love Liberty," a variety special saluting America.

Maurice Hines, tap-dancing icon and ‘The Cotton Club’ star, dies at 80 The tap-dancing icon, whose younger brother Gregory Hines was also a dance legend, died at the Actors Fund Home, an ...

Through their shared skill of dance, specifically in tap, he was part of a father-and-sons dance show called “Hines, Hines & Dad” with his younger sibling Gregory and their patriarch, Maurice ...

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.

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.

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.