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Charles "Honi" Coles (April 2, 1911 – November 12, 1992) was an American actor and tap dancer, who was inducted posthumously into the American Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2003. He had a distinctive personal style that required technical precision, high-speed tapping, and a close-to-the-floor style where "the legs and feet did the work". [1]
Nov 13, 1992 · Charles (Honi) Coles, a virtuosic tap dancer who won a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway musical "My One and Only" and whom Lena Horne once described as making "butterflies look ...
Nov 13, 1992 · Charles (Honi) Coles, a virtuosic tap dancer who won a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway musical "My One and Only" and whom Lena Horne once described as making "butterflies look clumsy," died yesterday at his home in East Elmhurst, Queens. He was 81 years old. He died of cancer, said his wife, Marian.
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Nov 12, 1992 · In 1940, as a soloist with Cab Calloway's orchestra, Coles met Charles "Cholly" Atkins, a jazz tap dancer who would later choreograph for the best rhythm-and-blues singing groups of the 1960s. Atkins was an expert wing dancer, while Coles's specialty was precision. They combined their talents after the War by forming the class act of Coles ...
Coles, Charles (“Honi”) ( b. 2 April 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d .11 November 1992 in New York City), only tap dancer to be honored with both Tony and Drama Desk Awards. Coles was one of three children born to George and Isabel Coles. His father was a jack-of-all-trades who owned a pool hall and a barbershop at various times.
Nov 13, 1992 · Charles (Honi) Coles, the elegant hoofer who tap-danced over the decades for the cultural elite on Broadway and the criminally inclined in Prohibition-era speak-easies, died Thursday.
Nov 12, 1992 · Charles Honi Coles, tap dancer, raconteur, and veteran performer of the stage, vaudeville, television, and the concert world, was born Charles Coles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of George Coles and Isabel Clark.
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