Maurice Hines, tap-dancing icon and ‘The Cotton Club’ star, dies at 80

Maurice Hines attends a screening of the “The Cotton Club” during the 57th New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 2019, in New York City. (Getty Images)

Maurice Hines, the dancer, actor and choreographer who starred on Broadway and in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club,” has died at 80.

The tap-dancing icon, whose younger brother Gregory Hines was also a dance legend, died at the Actors Fund Home, an assisted-living facility in Englewood, New Jersey.