Hinton Battle death: Dreamgirls star and ‘Broadway icon’ dies as Jennifer Hudson leads tributes
Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDreamgirls actor Hinton Battle, the multiple Tony award winner who played The Scarecrow in Broadway’s The Wiz, has died aged 67.The screen and stage actor died on Tuesday (30 January) at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.A representative for the family said he died after a lengthy illness, but declined to confirm Battle’s cause of death, in a statement to The Hollywood…