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- A Brief Biography of Herb Jeffries Herb Jeffries was, in the tradition of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers, a Hollywood created, silver screen, singing cowboy hero. He starred in five films in the late 1930's, but Jeffries was a different type of cowpoke. He was " The Bronze Buckaroo.
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Herb Jeffries (born Umberto Alexander Valentino; September 24, 1913 – May 25, 2014) was an American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known for his baritone voice.
Mini Bio. This velvet-toned jazz baritone and sometime actor was (and perhaps still is) virtually unknown to white audiences. Yet, back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Herb Jeffries was very big...in black-cast films. Today he is respected and remembered as a pioneer who broke down rusted-shut racial doors in Hollywood and ultimately ...
- September 24, 1913
- May 25, 2014
Nov 11, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, baritone jazz balladeer and first black singing cowboy in the movies, was born Umberto Alexander Valentino on September 24, 1913 in Detroit, Michigan, to a mixed-race father and an Irish-born mother. His mother operated a boarding house and raised her son alone.
May 26, 2014 · Jeffries died of heart failure Sunday at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center, said Raymond Strait, who had been working with Jeffries on his autobiography. Jeffries had been in declining health ...
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Herb Jeffries. Actor: The Bronze Buckaroo. This velvet-toned jazz baritone and sometime actor was (and perhaps still is) virtually unknown to white audiences. Yet, back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Herb Jeffries was very big...in black-cast films.
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- Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- West Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 25, 2014 · Herb Jeffries (born Umberto Alexander Valentino; September 24, 1913 – May 25, 2014) was an American actor of film and television and popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known for his baritone voice.
Herb Jeffries. Actor, Singer. 24 September 1913 to 24 May 2014. An American actor, singer and pioneer of African-American Westerns, Jeffries was known as the ‘The Bronze Buckaroo’ after starring in a 1939 film of the same name. After making his screen debut in Harlem on the Prairie (1937), the jazz singer appeared in Westerns targeted at ...
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