Biography
Hinton Battle (29 November 1956 – 30 January 2024) was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer. Born in Neubrücke, West Germany, he trained at the Jones Haywood School of Ballet in Washington, D.C., and the School of American Ballet in New York before making his Broadway debut at 18 as the original Scarecrow in The Wiz (1975).
He won three Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, for Sophisticated Ladies (1981), The Tap Dance Kid (1984) and Miss Saigon (1991). Battle appeared in the film Dreamgirls (2006) as Wayne and on television in series including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as Sweet), Quantum Leap and Touched by an Angel.
