Cab Calloway
Biography
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.
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2024
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer as The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
2020Everything's Fine as Himself (Voice)
2012Cab Calloway: Sketches as Himself
2004TV in Black: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage)
2004The Harlem Renaissance as Self (archive footage)
2003Piano Blues as Self (archive footage)
1999Grass as Self (archive footage)
1998The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' as Self (archive footage)
1995Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self (archive footage)
1990Night of 100 Stars III as Self
1990Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self (archive footage)
1986WrestleMania 2 as Self
1985Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1980The Blues Brothers as Curtis
1977The Love Boat as Lionel Bigelow
1977The Great Balloon Race
1975Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
1974Harry O
1971Great Performances as Self
1971The Pearl Bailey Show as Self
1969The Littlest Angel as Gabriel
1965Triumph Over Violence as Self (archive footage)
1965The Cincinnati Kid as Yeller
1961The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1960Schlager-Raketen as Self
1958Kraft Music Hall as Self
1958St. Louis Blues as Blade
1957Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956Jazz Ball as Self (archive footage)
1955Rhythm and Blues Revue as Self
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #1 as Self
1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #3 as Self
1951Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti as Self
1950What's My Line? as Self
1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #4 as Self
1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 as Self
1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1948Cab Calloway Home Movies
1948Cab Calloway Home Movie #5 as Self
1947Hi-De-Ho as Himself
1945We the Cats Shall Hep Ya as Himself
1945Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
1945I Was Here When You Left Me
1945Blowtop Blues
1945Walking with My Honey
1945Caldonia as Himself
1944Sensations of 1945 as Cab Calloway
1943Stormy Weather as Cab Calloway
1942The Skunk Song
1942Blues in the Night
1942Minnie the Moocher as Himself / Vocals
1937Manhattan Merry-Go-Round as Self
1937Hi-De-Ho as Cab Calloway
1936The Singing Kid as Cab Calloway
1935Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
1934Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho as Cab Calloway
1934Betty Boop's Rise to Fame as Old Man / Reporter
1934Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
1933The Old Man of the Mountain as Himself & Old Man
1933Snow-White as Koko the Clown (voice)
1933International House as Cab Calloway
1932The Big Broadcast as Cab Calloway
1932Minnie the Moocher as Cab Calloway
—Ebony Parade as (archive footage)