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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.
22 apr 2024 · Groundbreakers. Hollywood’s First “Black Singing Cowboy,” Herb Jeffries, Would Have Loved Beyoncé. The jazz vocalist turned movie star, who starred in Harlem on the Prairie in 1937, refused to...
26 mag 2014 · By Richard Corliss. May 26, 2014 7:17 PM EDT. A mong Western stars of the late 1930s, white moviegoers saw their demographic reflected by Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and the young Duke, John...
27 mag 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.
11 nov 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. His grandfather had a small dairy farm in Port Huron, Michigan ...
When a tour singing with the Blanche Calloway orchestra ended in Los Angeles, a young Jeffries - still in his 20s - began searching for financing to make the cowboy serials he knew would be a hit. In 1936 Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer, finally gave him his first chance. "He bought my story in 15 minutes," Jeffries explains.
27 mag 2014 · Herb 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...
