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George "Tiger" Haynes, sometimes billed as Colonel Tiger Haynes (December 13, 1914 - February 14, 1994) was an American actor and musical performer. He's famous role was the Tin Man in The Wiz

Biography[]

Tiger Haynes (Scene from The Wiz on Broadway 1975)

Tiger Haynes as the Tinman

He was born in Frederiksted, St. Croix, and moved to New York when he was a boy.After he ended his boxing career, Haynes played guitar with The Three Flames from 1945 to 1956, a group which had its own NBC radio show in the middle of the 1940s and a television show on NBC television in 1949, and which incorporated Sammy Benskin in 1954.He made his mainstream Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's musical revue "New Faces of 1956."

He made his mainstream Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's musical revue New Faces of 1956. He is best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man in the original Broadway cast of "The Wiz" He also made several television appearances on programs such as The Cosby Show (1989), In the Heat of the Night (1989), and Law & Order (1994), as well as numerous minor film appearances in films such as All That Jazz (1979) and Ratboy (1986).

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