Bill Robinson

Acting • AGE 71

According to one jazz dance source, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson was the chief instigator for getting tap dance "up on its toes." Early forms of tap, including the familiar "buck and wing", contained a f...

Acting

Dancetime Tap Dance History

2011

The Harlem Renaissance

Self (archive footage)

2004

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults

Self (Archival Footage)

1997

That's Dancing!

1985

The Ed Sullivan Show

Self

1948

Stormy Weather

Bill Williamson

1943

Up the River

Memphis Jones

1938

Just Around the Corner

Samuel G. Henshaw

1938

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Aloysius

1938

One Mile from Heaven

Officer Joe Dudley

1937

The Littlest Rebel

Uncle Billy

1935

In Old Kentucky

Greyboy

1935

The Big Broadcast of 1936

Specialty

1935

Hooray for Love

himself

1935

The Little Colonel

Walker

1935

The Big Benefit

Self

1933

Harlem Is Heaven

Bill

1932

Dixiana

Specialty Dancer

1930