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Hinton Battle is a Actor and Choreographer American born on 29 november 1956 at Hoppstädten (German)

Hinton Battle

Hinton Battle
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Nationality USA
Birth 29 november 1956 at Hoppstädten (German)
Death 29 january 2024 (at 67 years)

Hinton Battle (born November 29, 1956) is an American actor, singer, dancer, and dance instructor. He has won three Tony Awards, all in the category of Featured Actor in a Musical. He was the first to portray the Scarecrow in the stage version of The Wiz (a role assumed by Michael Jackson in the 1978 film adaptation).

Biography

Early life
Battle was born in Neubrücke, Hoppstädten, West Germany, part of the Baumholder Army Military Community, and raised in Washington, D.C. and New York City. His mother was a homemaker and his father a U.S. army officer. Battle's talent became apparent at the age of nine. After three years of studying ballet at the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet, he received a scholarship to The School of American Ballet where he studied until the age of fifteen under George Balanchine. That same year, Hinton made his Broadway debut starring as the Scarecrow in The Wiz.


Career
He has appeared in fifteen films and television programmes, including Quantum Leap, Dreamgirls, and Touched by an Angel. On Quantum Leap, he played Thames, the evil Observer from the future, in the final installment of the Evil Leaper trilogy of episodes. Battle played the role of the Cat in the first U.S. pilot for science-fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, based on the British show of the same name. Notably,he guest starred as Sweet the jazz demon, in "Once More, with Feeling", Buffy The Vampire Slayer's musical episode in which his spell forces the characters to sing their biggest secrets and fears.

Hinton’s other Broadway starring roles include Dancin', Dreamgirls, Sophisticated Ladies for which he won his first Tony Award, Chicago (Billy Flynn) and Ragtime (Coalhouse Walker Jr.), which garnered rave reviews from the Chicago press and earned him an Ira Aldridge Award. His role in The Tap Dance Kid also earned Hinton a second Tony Award, the NAACP Award and the Fred Astaire Award, and Miss Saigon for which he won his third Tony Award.

Hinton’s long list of television credits include: Shine, his one man show presented at the HBO Aspen Comedy Arts Festival; The Kennedy Center’s 25th Anniversary; These Old Broads co-starring Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor; and ABC/Disney’s Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story where Hinton served as choreographer and co-star playing Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson.

As choreographer, Hinton’s work has been seen on the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Once More, with Feeling", These Old Broads, Foreign Student (With Charles Dutton), The Golden Globe Awards, Dance in America; the sitcoms Fired Up, Sister Sister, The Trouble with Normal, and The Boys. Hinton has choreographed promos for Warner Brothers, commercials for Coca-Cola, Chicago The Millie and New York Top Appliances. He served as Associate Choreographer on the 65th and 66th Annual Academy Awards with Debbie Allen.

Off-Broadway Hinton has served as co-director and choreographer for Evil Dead: The Musical. Having finished choreographing the movie musical Idlewild, he has joined with Wynton Marsalis for The Buddy Bolden Story, a feature film about the untold story of the man who created jazz in America. He is currently directing the stage musical Respect, a musical journey of women from the 1900s – 2007. Hinton’s most recent creation, a dance form called Swop that combines swing and hip-hop, was performed on the highly rated Dancing With The Stars in 2006. In 2014, Hinton starred in the off-Broadway production, Cindy: The Musical


Music
In addition to his prolific dancing career, Battle briefly drifted into singing in the mid-1980s. His song "Think We're Gonna Make It" was featured on the soundtrack to the 1986 movie, Playing for Keeps, and he released his lone solo album, Untapped that same year.

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Filmography of Hinton Battle (4 films)

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Actor

Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls (2006)
, 2h10
Directed by Bill Condon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson
Roles Wayne
Rating66% 3.3007253.3007253.3007253.3007253.300725
Just as the original stage musical, the plot of Dreamgirls is told in two segments.
These Old Broads, 1h29
Directed by Matthew Diamond
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Debbie Reynolds, Joan Collins, Elizabeth Taylor, Jonathan Silverman, Pat Crawford Brown
Roles Pete
Rating58% 2.9032952.9032952.9032952.9032952.903295
Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson (Reynolds), Kate Westbourne (MacLaine), and Addie Holden (Collins) in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical Boy Crazy is re-released to wide public acclaim in the 1990s. Though the three women share the same agent, Beryl Mason (Taylor), Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.
Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story, 1h28
Directed by Nadia Tass
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Emily Hart, Ashley Orr, Connie Britton, Colin Friels, Ben Mendelsohn, Hinton Battle
Roles Bill Bojangles Robinson
Rating62% 3.1015753.1015753.1015753.1015753.101575
La vie et la carrière mouvementée de l'actrice Shirley Temple, célèbre enfant star dans les années 1930 et 1940 aux États-Unis.
Foreign Student, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robin Givens, Marco Hofschneider, Charlotte Ross, Edward Herrmann, Jack Coleman, Charles Dutton
Roles Sonny Boy Williamson
Rating59% 2.950622.950622.950622.950622.95062
En 1954, un étudiant français de 18 ans reçoit une bourse d'étude afin de passer une année dans une université de Virginie. Très vite, le jeune homme comprend qu'il reste un 'étudiant étranger'. Il va franchir des lignes sans même s'en rendre compte.

Team

Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story, 1h28
Directed by Nadia Tass
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Emily Hart, Ashley Orr, Connie Britton, Colin Friels, Ben Mendelsohn, Hinton Battle
Roles Choreographer
Rating62% 3.1015753.1015753.1015753.1015753.101575
La vie et la carrière mouvementée de l'actrice Shirley Temple, célèbre enfant star dans les années 1930 et 1940 aux États-Unis.