Bates, Clayton

Bates, Clayton
▪ 1999

      American tap dancer who, despite having lost a leg in an accident when he was 12 years old, enjoyed a performing career that lasted some seven decades and saw him in vaudeville, clubs, stage musicals, and motion pictures and on television, including 21 appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show," a record for tap dancers (b. Oct. 11, 1907, Fountain Inn, S.C.—d. Dec. 6, 1998, Fountain Inn).

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