From The Independent
Dreamgirls actor Hinton Battle, the multiple Tony award winner who played The Scarecrow in Broadway’s The Wiz, has died aged 67.
The screen and stage actor died on Tuesday (30 January) at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
A representative for the family said he died after a lengthy illness, but declined to confirm Battle’s cause of death, in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
Battle appeared in Dreamgirls as Wayne, a salesman at Curtis’ Cadillac dealership who becomes Rainbow Records’ first producer. His co-star Jennifer Hudson led the tributes to the actor, remembering him as a “Broadway icon” in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday (31 January).
4 comments:
Oh wow! Rest easy, Mr. Hilton Battle!!
Broadway's best. Rest in peace.
RIP Mr. Battle.
RIP. So sad to hear about this. Rest, Sir you deserve it.
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