People
Cab Calloway
- Name: Cab Calloway
- Birthday: 1907-12-25
- Also known as: Cabell Calloway III
- Place of birth: Rochester, New York, USA
- Popularity: 4.874
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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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer as The Old Man of the Mountain / Additional (voice) | 2024-04-27 |
| Everything's Fine as Himself (Voice) | 2020-05-26 |
| Cab Calloway: Sketches as Himself | 2012-02-27 |
| The Harlem Renaissance as Self (archive footage) | 2004-01-01 |
| TV in Black: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage) | 2004-01-01 |
| Piano Blues as Self (archive footage) | 2003-10-04 |
| The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' as Self (archive footage) | 1998-09-08 |
| Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self (archive footage) | 1995-01-01 |
| Night of 100 Stars III as Self | 1990-05-21 |
| Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self (archive footage) | 1990-02-02 |
| Night of 100 Stars II as Self | 1985-03-10 |
| The Blues Brothers as Curtis | 1980-06-16 |
| The Great Balloon Race | 1977-01-03 |
| Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage) | 1975-04-19 |
| The Littlest Angel as Gabriel | 1969-12-06 |
| The Cincinnati Kid as Yeller | 1965-10-15 |
| St. Louis Blues as Blade | 1958-04-07 |
| Jazz Ball as Self (archive footage) | 1956-01-01 |
| Rhythm and Blues Revue as Self | 1955-01-01 |
| Cab Calloway Home Movie #3 as Self | 1951-01-01 |
| Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti as Self | 1951-01-01 |
| Cab Calloway Home Movie #1 as Self | 1951-01-01 |
| Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 as Self | 1950-01-01 |
| Cab Calloway Home Movie #4 as Self | 1950-01-01 |
| Cab Calloway Home Movies | 1948-04-03 |
| Cab Calloway Home Movie #5 as Self | 1948-01-01 |
| Hi-De-Ho as Himself | 1947-05-09 |
| We the Cats Shall Hep Ya as Himself | 1945-12-10 |
| Blowtop Blues | 1945-12-04 |
| I Was Here When You Left Me | 1945-12-04 |
| Foo a Little Bally-Hoo | 1945-12-04 |
| Walking with My Honey | 1945-08-09 |
| Caldonia as Himself | 1945-08-01 |
| Sensations of 1945 as Cab Calloway | 1944-06-30 |
| Stormy Weather as Cab Calloway | 1943-07-21 |
| The Skunk Song | 1942-08-16 |
| Blues in the Night | 1942-03-27 |
| Minnie the Moocher as Himself / Vocals | 1942-03-27 |
| Manhattan Merry-Go-Round as Self | 1937-11-26 |
| Hi-De-Ho as Cab Calloway | 1937-02-20 |
| The Singing Kid as Cab Calloway | 1936-04-10 |
| Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party | 1935-01-01 |
| Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho as Cab Calloway | 1934-08-24 |
| Betty Boop's Rise to Fame as Old Man / Reporter | 1934-05-18 |
| Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway | 1934-01-01 |
| The Old Man of the Mountain as Himself & Old Man | 1933-08-04 |
| Snow-White as Koko the Clown (voice) | 1933-08-01 |
| International House as Cab Calloway | 1933-05-27 |
| The Big Broadcast as as Cab Calloway Band | 1932-10-14 |
| Minnie the Moocher as Cab Calloway | 1932-03-11 |
