Career
He danced in the films Meet Maine After the Show (1951), Song of the Open Road (1944), and Tap (1989), as well as numerous others He collaborated with Jimmy Slyde on a program of jazz tap improvisation at the Smithsonian Institution during the 1980s. He died at 71 of a heart attack, in Lyon, France, in a dressing room of the Maurice Ravel auditorium shortly after performing at the Lyon International Dance Biennial.
