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Cab Calloway

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Date of birth
Dec 25, 1907
Date of death
Nov 18, 1994(aged 86)
Place of birth

Cab Calloway

Biography of Cab Calloway:

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.

Cab Calloway has directed:

Cab Calloway Home Movie #1(1951)
Cab Calloway Home Movie #3(1951)
Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti(1951)
Cab Calloway Home Movie #2(1950)
Cab Calloway Home Movie #4(1950)
Cab Calloway Home Movies(1948)
Cab Calloway Home Movie #5(1948)

Cab Calloway has acted in:

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer(2024) ... as The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
Everything's Fine(2020) ... as Himself (voice)
Cab Calloway: Sketches(2012) ... as Himself
The Harlem Renaissance(2004) ... as Self (archive footage)
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years(2004) ... as Self (archive footage)
Piano Blues(2003) ... as Self (archive footage)
Grass(1999) ... as Self (archive footage)
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'(1998) ... as Self (archive footage)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons(1995) ... as Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars III(1990) ... as Self
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge(1990) ... as Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars II(1985) ... as Self
The Blues Brothers(1980) ... as Curtis
The Great Balloon Race(1977)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen(1975) ... as Self (archive footage)
The Littlest Angel(1969) ... as Gabriel
Triumph Over Violence(1965) ... as Self (archive footage)
The Cincinnati Kid(1965) ... as Yeller
Schlager-Raketen(1960) ... as Self
St. Louis Blues(1958) ... as Blade
Jazz Ball(1956) ... as Self (archive footage)
Rhythm and Blues Revue(1955) ... as Self
Porgy and Bess in Wien(1953)
Cab Calloway Home Movie #1(1951) ... as Self
Cab Calloway Home Movie #3(1951) ... as Self
Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti(1951) ... as Self
Cab Calloway Home Movie #2(1950) ... as Self
Cab Calloway Home Movie #4(1950) ... as Self
Cab Calloway Home Movies(1948)
Cab Calloway Home Movie #5(1948) ... as Self
Hi-De-Ho(1947) ... as Cab
We the Cats Shall Hep Ya(1945) ... as Himself
Blowtop Blues(1945)
I Was Here When You Left Me(1945)
Foo a Little Bally-Hoo(1945)
Walking with My Honey(1945)
Caldonia(1945) ... as Himself
Sensations of 1945(1944) ... as Cab Calloway
Stormy Weather(1943) ... as Cab Calloway
The Skunk Song(1942)
Blues in the Night(1942)
Minnie the Moocher(1942) ... as Himself / Vocals
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round(1937) ... as Self
Hi-De-Ho(1937) ... as Cab Calloway
The Singing Kid(1936) ... as Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party(1935)
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho(1934) ... as Cab Calloway
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame(1934) ... as Old Man / Reporter
Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway(1934)
The Old Man of the Mountain(1933) ... as Himself & Old Man
Snow-White(1933) ... as Koko the Clown (voice)
International House(1933) ... as Cab Calloway
The Big Broadcast(1932) ... as Cab Calloway
Minnie the Moocher(1932) ... as Cab Calloway
Ebony Parade ... as (archive footage)

Additional credits for Cab Calloway:

Cab Calloway Home Movies(1948)(Cinematography)

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