Fayard Nicholas
Choreographer, dancer, actor (1914-2006) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 91
Fayard Antonio Nicholas was an American choreographer, dancer and actor. He and his younger brother Harold Nicholas made up the Nicholas Brothers tap dance duo, who starred in the MGM musicals An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935), Stormy Weather (1943), The Pirate (1948), and Hard Four (2007).
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were ThereFilm1998
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in HollywoodFilm1991Kennedy Center HonorsAward1989Tony Award for Best ChoreographyAward1985
That's Dancing!Film, From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)1978Black Filmmakers Hall of FameAward
The Kennedy Center HonorsSeries, 19781976
The JacksonsSeries, El mismo1974
That's Entertainment!Film, (archive footage) (uncredited)1964
The Hollywood PalaceSeries1956
Hello KathrinFilm1955
MGM ParadeSeries1952
Abbott and Costello Christmas ShowFilm, Himself1944
Take It or Leave ItFilm, (archive footage) (uncredited)1942
Orchestra WivesFilm, Dancer (as Nicholas Brothers)1939
My Son Is GuiltyFilm, Specialty Act1936
Don't Gamble with LoveFilm, Specialty Dancer1934
Kid MillionsFilm, Dancer on Ship1932Pie, Pie BlackbirdFilm, Child with Nina / Dancer (as The Nicholas Brothers)1914Born20 October 1914People around Fayard
Jack Oakie Also in The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
Archie Mayo Directed Orchestra Wives (1942)
Dorothy Dandridge Also in The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
John Payne Also in Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Robert Ellis Wrote Tin Pan Alley (1940)
William LeBaron Produced Orchestra Wives (1942)
William Wyler Directed The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Ethel Merman Also in The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
Vincente Minnelli Directed The Pirate (1948)
Betty Grable Also in Down Argentine Way and Tin Pan Alley
Alfred Newman Wrote Tin Pan Alley and Orchestra Wives
Norman Taurog Directed The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
Alice Faye Also in Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Mario Soldati Directed I'm in the Revue (1950)
Katherine Dunham Also in Stormy Weather and I'm in the Revue
Arthur Freed Produced The Pirate (1948)
Benjamin Glazer Produced The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
Walter Lang Directed Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Erik Ode Directed Music in the Blood (1955)
Andrew L. Stone Directed Stormy Weather (1943)
Karl Anton Directed Bonjour Kathrin (1956)
Karl Tunberg Wrote Down Argentine Way and Orchestra Wives
Yolanda Montes Also in El mensaje de la muerte (1953)
Kenneth Macgowan Produced Tin Pan Alley (1940)
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That's Entertainment! 1974
Stormy Weather 1943
The Pirate 1948
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Television 4
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The Nicholas brothers also starred in the 20th Century-Fox musicals Down Argentine Way (1940), Sun Valley Serenade (1941), and Orchestra Wives (1942).
