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Herb Jeffries (* 24. September 1913 in Detroit als Umberto Alexander Valentino; † 25. Mai 2014 in Los Angeles) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Musiker und Schauspieler. Mitte der 1930er Jahre ging er als erster und bislang einziger afroamerikanischer Singender Cowboy mit einer Serie musikalischer Western in die Geschichte ein.
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.
26. Mai 2014 · 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 Wayne. Black moviegoers had...
27. Mai 2014 · Getty Images. Jeffries was a successful recording star as well as an actor. Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed in a series of all-black Western movies in the 1930s, has...
27. Mai 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.
26. Mai 2014 · Herb Jeffries, the first black singing cowboy of the movies who starred in such 1930s films as Harlem on the Prairie and The Bronze Buckaroo, has died, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was...
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 ...
