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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.
Herb Jeffries, pseudonimo di Umberto Alexander Valentino (riscontrato anche come Umberto Alejandro Balentino o Ballentino) (Detroit, 24 settembre 1913 – Los Angeles, 25 maggio 2014), è stato un cantautore e attore statunitense, noto in particolare per le sue composizioni e per la caratteristica voce baritonale in brani di musica ...
Herb Jeffries. Actor: 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.
- September 24, 1913
- May 25, 2014
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...
26 mag 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 malleable racial identity — died...
26 mag 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...
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.
