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Fayard Nicholas

Fayard Nicholas

Acting
20 Oct 1914
24 Jan 2006
Mobile, Alabama, USA

Biography

Fayard Antonio Nicholas was an American choreographer, dancer and actor. He and his younger brother Harold Nicholas made up the Nicholas Brothers tap dance duo, who starred in the MGM musicals An All-Colored Vaudeville Show, Stormy Weather, The Pirate, and Hard Four. The Nicholas brothers also starred in the 20th Century-Fox musicals Down Argentine Way, Sun Valley Serenade, and Orchestra Wives. In 1932, when he was 18 and his brother was only 11, they became the featured act at Cotton Club in Ne...

Also Known As

The Nicholas Brothers, Nicholas Brothers, Fayard Antonio Nicholas

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