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Herbert Jeffreys (born September 24, 1911 in
Detroit, Michigan) is a Black American jazz singer
and actor.


A jazz musician of Ethiopian-French Canadian and
Italy|Italian-Ireland|Irish descent, Herbert
Jeffreys is noted for his singing cowboy roles in
several all-black Western films in which he sang
his own western compositions. Jeffreys got the
financing for the first black western film and
hired Spencer Williams to appear with him. In
addition to starring in the film, Jeffreys sang
and performed his own stunts as the cowboy
character "Bob Blake".

Through his series of low-budget westerns, he soon
became known as the "Bronze Buckaroo" by fans who
flocked to his films that in the days of American
racial segregation played only in theaters
catering to African Americans audiences. Jeffreys
remained a virtual unknown with white audiences
until interest in his career was revived in the
1980s. In 1995, at age eighty-three, Herbert
Jeffreys recorded a Nashville album of songs on
the Warner Music Group|Warner Western label titled
"The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again)".

For his contribution to the motion picture
industry, Herb Jeffries has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6672 Hollywood Blvd. In
2004, he was inducted into the Western Performers
Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western
Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

==Partial Filmography==
*Harlem On The Prairie (1936)
*Two Gun Men from Harlem (1937)
*Harlem Rides The Range (1937)
*The Bronze Buckaroo (1938)

==See also==
Notable figures in Western films|Other notable
figures in Western films


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