Cab Calloway
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Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.
Known for
Credits
The Blues Brothers (1980)
as Curtis
Grass (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
Piano Blues (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
as Yeller
The Great Man: W.C. Fields (2005)
as Self (clip from International House (1933)) (archive footage)
The Littlest Angel (1969)
as Gabriel
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
St. Louis Blues (1958)
as Blade
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
as Self
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' (1998)
as Self (archive footage)
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
International House (1933)
as Cab Calloway
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
as Self
Stormy Weather (1943)
as Cab Calloway
The Harlem Renaissance (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Hi-De-Ho (1947)
as Cab
Triumph Over Violence (1965)
as Self (archive footage)
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
as Self
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934)
as Old Man / Reporter
Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955)
as Self
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1990)
as Self (archive footage)
Ebony Parade (—)
as (archive footage)
The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
as Himself & Old Man
Porgy and Bess in Wien (1953)
Actor
Hi-De-Ho (1937)
as Cab Calloway
Sensations of 1945 (1944)
as Cab Calloway
Snow-White (1933)
as Koko the Clown (voice)
The Singing Kid (1936)
as Cab Calloway
Minnie the Moocher (1932)
as Cab Calloway
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer (2024)
as The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
Caldonia (1945)
as Himself
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
as Cab Calloway
The Great Balloon Race (1977)
Actor
Jazz Ball (1956)
as Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Cab Calloway Home Movie #5 (1948)
as Self
Schlager-Raketen (1960)
as Self
The Big Broadcast (1932)
as Cab Calloway
We the Cats Shall Hep Ya (1945)
as Himself
Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935)
Actor
Cab Calloway Home Movies (1948)
Actor
I Was Here When You Left Me (1945)
Actor
Foo a Little Bally-Hoo (1945)
Actor
Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti (1951)
as Self
Everything's Fine (2020)
as Himself (Voice)
Walking with My Honey (1945)
Actor
Cab Calloway Home Movie #3 (1951)
as Self
Cab Calloway Home Movie #1 (1951)
as Self
Blues in the Night (1942)
Actor
Minnie the Moocher (1942)
as Himself / Vocals
Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway (1934)
Actor
Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 (1950)
as Self
Cab Calloway Home Movie #4 (1950)
as Self
Blowtop Blues (1945)
Actor
Cab Calloway: Sketches (2012)
as Himself