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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.
September 24, 1913 · Detroit, Michigan, USA. Died. May 25, 2014 · West Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart failure) Birth name. Umberto Alejandro Ballentino. Nicknames. Mr. Flamingo. Hobby. The Sepia Singing Cowboy. The Bronze Buckaroo. Height. 6′ 2″ (1.88 m) Mini Bio.
- September 24, 1913
- May 25, 2014
May 26, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, who sang with the Duke Ellington Orchestra during the Swing Era and made movie history in the 1930s as “The Bronze Buckaroo,” the silver screen’s first black singing cowboy, has...
- Dennis Mclellan
May 26, 2014 · By William Yardley. May 26, 2014. Herb Jeffries, who sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as “the Bronze Buckaroo” — a nickname that evoked his...
May 27, 2014 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed with Duke Ellington and was known as the "Bronze Buckaroo" in a series of all-black 1930s Westerns, died of heart failure Sunday morning at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 100.
May 25, 2014 · May 25, 2014 10:19pm. Courtesy Everett Collection. Herb Jeffries, the first black singing cowboy of the movies, who starred in such 1930s films as Harlem on the Prairie and The Bronze Buckaroo,...
May 27, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed with Duke Ellington and was known as the “Bronze Buckaroo” in a series of all-black 1930s Westerns, died of heart failure Sunday morning...
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