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Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

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Date of Birth:  May 25, 1878 (Richmond, Virginia)
Date of Death:  November 25, 1949
Parents:  Maxwell and Maria Robinson.  His parents died when he was a baby, and so he was raised by his grandmother.
Marriages:  Fannie S. Clay (divorced, 1943), Elaine Plaines (1944)
Style:  Tap Dance
Stage Credits:  
- Hoofer in Local Beer Gardens and Shows: Age 6
- Joined a traveling company at age 12
- Worked with George Cooper as a Vaudeville team (1902 or 1905)
- 25 years of nightclub and musical comedy performances for African Americans
- The "Blackbirds of 1928" All-Black Revue for white audiences that changed his image into a dapper ambassador to the "white man."
- The Hot Mikado (1939 stage production)
- "All In Fun" (1940)
Filmography
-\More than 20 films for RKO, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount Pictures.  Most commonly as an antebellum butler playing opposite Shirley Temple or Will Rogers.  (See complete filmography below).  
- Stormy Weather (1943)
- By an Old Southern River (1942)
- Let's Scuffle (1942)
- Road Demon (1938)
- Up The River (1938)
- Just Around the Corner (1938)
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
- Cotton Club Revue (1938)
- One Mile from Heaven (1937)
- In Old Kentucky (1935)
- The Littlest Rebel (1935)
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
- George White's 1935 Scandals (1935 - scenes deleted)
- Hooray for Love (1935)
- The Little Colonel (1935)
- King for a Day (1934)
- The Big Benefit (1933)
- Harlem is Heaven (1932)
- Dixiana (1930)
- Hello, Bill (1929)

Trivia:  
- Bill was christened as "Luther," but used his fists to motivate his brother to switch names with him.  
- Bill did not dance for a white audience until he was 50 years old.  For many years, he was required to perform in "blackface" makeup when dancing for white audiences.
-  Bojangles set a world's record of 8.2 seconds for the 75-yard backward dash
-  Appointed honorary mayor of harlem
-  Mascot of the New York Giants baseball team
- co-founded the New York Black Yankees baseball team in Harlem in 1936



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