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Bookmark or Share- Herb Jeffries - WikipediaHerb 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 dies at 100; Hollywood's first black singing ...May 25, 2014 6:32 PM PT. 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...
- Herb Jeffries - Biography - IMDbActor: 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. Today he is respected and remembered as a pioneer who broke down rusted-shut racial doors in Hollywood and ...
- Herb Jeffries, ‘Bronze Buckaroo’ of Song and Screen, Dies at ...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...
- Herb Jeffries: 'Bronze Buckeroo' actor and singer dies - BBCHerb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed in a series of all-black Western movies in the 1930s, has died at the age of 100. Known to cinema audiences as the Bronze Buckaroo, he...
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