Harold Nicholas

AKA: Nicholas Brothers, The Nicholas Brothers, Harold Lloyd Nicholas

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1921-03-27

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {48}

Sarge

1991-03-29 7.4

The Five Heartbeats

In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to ...

Genre :Drama, Music

One of the Nicholas Brothers

1940-10-11 6.2

Down Argentine Way

The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shoot ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance

Self

1935-06-21 7

An All-Colored Vaudeville Show

Black vaudeville acts are featured in this Vitaphone Pepper Pot short. In addition to those listed in the credits, acts include The 3 Whippets, a group of acrobats; and The Five Racketeers, a band tha ...

Genre :Music

Midget

1976-07-27 3.8

Disco 9000

Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses because it ain't groovy enough. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Music

Young Tap Dancer

1933-09-29 5.6

Emperor Jones

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Self (archive footage)

1988-05-16 6

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

Stars celebrate Bob Hope's 50 years with NBC. ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie, Documentary

Baby Singer

1933-08-18 4.9

Stoopnocracy

An animated short chronicling the adventures of Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd. ...

Genre :Comedy, Animation

Dash

1935-09-20 5.5

The Big Broadcast of 1936

Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a televis ...

Genre :Music

1940-01-01 7

Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies

The Nicholas family home movies capture a golden age of show business -- with extraordinary footage of Broadway, Harlem and Hollywood -- and also document the middle-class African-American life of tha ...

Genre :

Self (archival footage)

2022-06-11 0

Nicholas Brothers: Stormy Weather

In the 1940s, the Nicholas Brothers performed a dance routine so seminal it prefigured hip hop by three decades. Contemporary dancers Les Twins choreograph and perform their homage to the one and only ...

Genre :Documentary

Himself

1937-03-01 0

Calling All Stars

Musical review. The messenger carrying the master discs of a season drops them, so Flotsam and Jetsam are sent out to collect the stars concerned. Each star gives an extract from his or her record. ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

Sidekick

1962-12-05 4

The Empire of Night

Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villai ...

Genre :Comedy

Child with Nina / Dancer (as The Nicholas Brothers)

1932-06-03 6

Pie, Pie Blackbird

Short featuring musician Eubie Blake and his orchestra, singer Nina Mae McKinney, and young tap dancers Fayard and Harold Nicholas. ...

Genre :Music

Dancer (uncredited)

1936-04-04 6

The Black Network

The owner of a shoe polish company sponsors a radio show that showcases black performers. Since his wife's father put up the money to be the sponsor, she insists on singing on the show. She goes on af ...

Genre :Music

(archive footage)

1974-06-21 7.336

That's Entertainment!

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history. ...

Genre :Documentary, Family, Music

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2002-02-05 0

Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters. ...

Genre :Documentary, TV Movie

Self - Dancer - One of the Nicholas Brothers

1933-09-30 4

Barber Shop Blues

A barber shop owner wins a sweepstake. He remodels his shop and hires Claude Hopkins and his orchestra to play for his customers. Two songs are sung, and the Four Step Brothers tap dance in the closin ...

Genre :Music

Dancer (as Nicholas Brothers)

1942-09-04 6.292

Orchestra Wives

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the band's tour and learns about life as an ...

Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Dance Specialty (uncredited)

1935-11-27 3

Coronado

Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Specialty Dancer (uncredited)

1941-08-29 7

Sun Valley Serenade

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice sho ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Dancer

1940-11-29 4.8

Tin Pan Alley

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Music

Self

2016-05-10 0

Bob Hope: Entertaining the Troops

Dazzling appearances by Ursula Andress, Teresa Graves, Gloria Loring, Bobbi Martin, Romy Schneider, Miss United Kingdom, Miss Worlds, The Golddiggers, and more! Astronaut Neil Armstrong answers questi ...

Genre :Music, Comedy

Specialty Dancer

1936-02-28 0

Don't Gamble with Love

Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their s ...

Genre :Drama

1956-05-08 5

Hello Kathrin

German musical with Caterina Valente and Peter Alexander. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Himself

1992-11-29 0

The Nicholas Brothers: We Sing and We Dance

The Nicholas Brothers are presented here in a way that reflects the joy and intrinsic goodness that seemed to come from their hearts, and express itself in brilliantly conceived and executed performan ...

Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

1975-08-06 5.7

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression. ...

Genre :Documentary, History

1953-07-22 5

El misterio del carro express

Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

(archive footage) (uncredited)

1944-07-17 4

Take It or Leave It

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor. ...

Genre :

Dancer

1943-07-21 6.9

Stormy Weather

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s. ...

Genre :Music

Dancer

1944-08-01 0

Reckless Age

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk. ...

Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Music, Drama

Self (archive footage)

2002-02-08 8

It's Black Entertainment

A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Williams traces the struggles and triumphs of the super ...

Genre :Documentary, Music

Harold

1989-02-12 6.8

Tap

Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout, a hoofer club. His old girl friend, Amy, who still works at the club as a Tap instruct ...

Genre :Drama, Music

From 'Down Argentine Way' (archive footage)

1985-01-18 7

That's Dancing!

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s, 30s, 40s 50s and 60s up to the break dance and the m ...

Genre :Documentary, Music

Specialty Act

1939-12-28 7.5

My Son Is Guilty

Honest cop Tim Kerry struggles to keep his son Ritzy from becoming involved in a crime ring. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Self

2003-04-03 7

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of t ...

Genre :Music, Documentary, History

Little Seymour

1974-07-26 6.1

Uptown Saturday Night

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Action

1953-05-02 5.3

El mensaje de la muerte

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Mystery

Hal Dalzell

1995-09-20 6.5

Funny Bones

Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhoo ...

Genre :Comedy

Performer

1948-06-11 6.425

The Pirate

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate. ...

Genre :Music, Romance, Comedy, Adventure

Dancer on Ship

1934-11-10 6.5

Kid Millions

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it. ...

Genre :Music, Comedy, Drama

Railroad Station Dancer

1941-05-09 5.4

The Great American Broadcast

After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Self

1998-02-10 0

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their contributions to Hollywood filmmaking. Spectacular ...

Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2019-11-10 5

Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back

Maurice Hines, a charming, gay African-American entertainer navigates the complications of show business while grieving the loss of his more famous, often estranged younger brother, tap dance legend G ...

Genre :Documentary

Dance Specialty

1944-12-20 5.3

Carolina Blues

When he loses his lead singer, bandleader Kay Kyser can't find a replacement he likes. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Himself

1952-02-22 5.5

Abbott and Costello Christmas Show

Celebrate the season with this collection of sketches starring the hilarious Abbott and Costello and special guests. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family, TV Movie

Self - Tap Dancer

1964-01-04 4.5

The Hollywood Palace

The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, ...

Genre :Comedy

Self

1978-12-28 7.4

The Kennedy Center Honors

The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture. ...

Genre :

Self

1948-06-20 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was ...