Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

In the meantime, Amos and Andy depicted African-Americans in more typical working class and professional roles. It was a reunion of sorts, since in the 1970s, Baryshnikov had starred in an ABT production of La Sylphide in which Parker had danced a role as a student. That said, Anderson was playing a servant, as with other shows with African-American leads, such as Ethel Waters in Beulah. He played a recurring role in the final season of Sex and the City, opposite Sarah Jessica Parker. Benny's call of "Rochester," and Anderson's answers (often a raspy "Yes, Boss," but just as often a snappy joke at Benny's expense) were among the weekly highlights of the show, and some newspapers reportedly listed the show as The Eddie Anderson Show, with Benny relegated to a secondary role (this despite the show's opening title being repeated each week by announcer Don Wilson). He starred in the 1985 film White Nights. Anderson was as responsible as was Benny for the show's tremendous success across so many segments of American society, and the relationship between Anderson and Benny became more complex and intimate as the years went by. He received an Oscar nomination for his first film role, in 1977's The Turning Point.

(Anderson was of course not Benny's butler in real life, as many listeners of the time apparently thought in somewhat condescending fashion.) Anderson was also well-known for his role in the groundbreaking musical film, Cabin in the Sky. As of 2004, he is actively involved in the establishment of the Baryshnikov Arts Center in a new performing arts complex in New York City. Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (September 18, 1905 - February 28, 1977) was an African-American comic actor and star of movies, television and especially old-time radio, where he played the butler Rochester to Jack Benny's eponymous title character on The Jack Benny Show. He was a recipient of Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. Baryshnikov was artistic director of the White Oak Dance Project, a touring company he co-founded with Mark Morris. From 1990 to 2002, Mr.

He returned to ABT in 1980 as dancer and artistic director, a position he held for a decade. He then joined the New York City Ballet for fifteen months, working with choreographer George Balanchine. From 1974 to 1979, he was principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), though he also danced with ballet and modern dance companies around the world. During Kirov's tour through Canada in 1974, Baryshnikov disappeared for several days, reappearing in the United States, where he applied for political asylum.

Due to his talent, he joined Leningrad's Kirov Ballet in 1966. He first entered an ballet academy at the age of fifteen. His father was an engineer and his mother a seamstress. Baryshnikov (whose name is sometimes transliterated as Baryshinikov or Barishinikov) was born in Riga, then-capital of the Latvian SSR, of Russian parents.

Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov (in Russian Михаил Николаевич Баришников) (born January 28, 1948) is a famous dancer and actor.