Cab Calloway
Born: 1907-12-25 in Rochester, New York, USA
Died: 1994-11-18
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
- Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer as The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
2020
- Everything's Fine as Himself (Voice)
2012
- Cab Calloway: Sketches as Himself
2004
- TV in Black: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage)
- The Harlem Renaissance as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Piano Blues as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Grass as Self (archive footage)
1998
- The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' as Self (archive footage)
1995
- Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self (archive footage)
1986
- WrestleMania 2 as Self
1985
- Night of 100 Stars II as Self
1980
- The Blues Brothers as Curtis
1977
- The Love Boat as Lionel Bigelow
- The Great Balloon Race
1975
- Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
1974
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- The Pearl Bailey Show as Self
1969
- The Littlest Angel as Gabriel
1965
- Triumph Over Violence as Self (archive footage)
- The Cincinnati Kid as Yeller
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1960
- Schlager-Raketen as Self
1958
- Kraft Music Hall as Self
- St. Louis Blues as Blade
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956
- Jazz Ball as Self (archive footage)
1955
- Rhythm and Blues Revue as Self
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Cab Calloway Home Movie #1 as Self
- Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti as Self
- Cab Calloway Home Movie #3 as Self
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 as Self
- Cab Calloway Home Movie #4 as Self
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Cab Calloway Home Movies
- Cab Calloway Home Movie #5 as Self
1947
- Hi-De-Ho as Himself
1945
1944
- Sensations of 1945 as Cab Calloway
1943
- Stormy Weather as Cab Calloway
1942
- Minnie the Moocher as Himself / Vocals
- The Skunk Song
- Blues in the Night
1937
- Manhattan Merry-Go-Round as Self
- Hi-De-Ho as Cab Calloway
1936
- The Singing Kid as Cab Calloway
1934
- Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho as Cab Calloway
- Betty Boop's Rise to Fame as Old Man / Reporter
- Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
1933
- International House as Cab Calloway
- The Old Man of the Mountain as Himself & Old Man
- Snow-White as Koko the Clown (voice)
1932
- The Big Broadcast as Cab Calloway
- Minnie the Moocher as Cab Calloway