Matt Mattox (August 16, 1921 – February 18, 2013 [1]) was an American jazz and ballet dancer. He was a Broadway performer and a specialty dancer in many Hollywood musicals. His best-known film role was as Caleb Pontipee in the 1954 film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

2013年2月25日 · Matt Mattox, a dancer, choreographer and teacher who helped shape contemporary jazz dance in the United States and Europe, died in France on Feb. 18. He was 91. His death was...

2015年10月7日 · Although his interviews were rare and he spent more than 30 of his later years in France, Mattox (1921 – 2013) left an everlasting mark on jazz in both the US and Europe. He is the man who created much of the vocabulary and customs that formed jazz dance into a dance style all it’s own.

2013年4月30日 · One of the most sought-after jazz dancers in Hollywood, Matt Mattox also had a significant career as a choreographer and teacher in Europe. He died on Feb. 18 in France. Mattox created a movement vocabulary that infused a mix of ballet, modern, tap, and flamenco with a propulsive energy.

2013年4月2日 · Matt Mattox, the renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher who helped shape contemporary jazz dance in the United States and Europe, died on February 18, 2013 in France aged 91.

2013年2月23日 · Mattox, 91, who developed an influential method of teaching jazz dance, died Monday in France, his family announced. He had lived in southern France since 1980.

2013年2月26日 · Harold Mattox, the Hollywood dancer and choreographer known as Matt who shaped contempo footwork Stateside and in Europe and became a major figure in the evolution of jazz dance, died in France...

2013年3月2日 · NEW YORK — Matt Mattox — a dancer, choreographer and teacher who helped shape contemporary jazz dance in the United States and Europe — died Feb. 18 in France. He was 91. His death...

2013年2月21日 · To prepare for his career as one of America’s leading stage and film dancers in the 1950s, Mattox started dance lessons at 11 (“5-6 years of tap and then I started ballet – and loved it!”) studying ballet with Ernest Belcher, Nico Charisse and Eugene Loring and tap with Willie Covan and Louis DaPron.

2011年12月13日 · That man was Matt Mattox, performing choreography by Jack Cole. Matt was born in the city of Tulsa in Oklahoma in 1921. He began dancing at the early age of eleven. In 1948, he met Jack Cole, who became Mattox’s inspiration. …