Background
Sammy Davis Senior was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Rosa B (Taylor) and Robert Davis.
Sammy Davis Senior was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to Rosa B (Taylor) and Robert Davis.
He and Will Mastin, the leader of the dance troupe, taught Sammy Junior. how to dance and they performed together as the Will Mastin Trio. "Oh yeah? What makes you think that?" he asked. "Cause you taught me everything I know".
"Yeah, but I didn"t teach you everything I know".
Sammy Davis Senior began dancing early in life, and as a young man joined Will Mastin to form a dancing troupe. Soon Sammy Junior. joined the act and they became known as the Will Mastin Trio.
The three appeared in the 1956 Broadway musical Mr. Wonderful. Sammy Davis Senior also appeared in two movies, Sweet and Low and The Benny Goodman Story.
In The Benny Goodman Story, he played bandleader and arranger Fletcher Henderson.
His epitaph reads: "Daddy Sam.".