Broadway actor, dancer and choreographer Maurice Hines dies at 80

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Dancer, choreographer and actor Maurice Hines died on Friday at 80 years old.

The death was confirmed by Jordan Strohl, the executive director at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J., where Hines spent his final days.

The Broadway star often appeared alongside his younger brother Gregory Hines during the first part of his career. The siblings most famously co-starred in the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie, Cotton Club. Gregory Hines died of cancer in 2003.