Cab Calloway
Known for
Acting
Born
December 25, 1907
Birthplace
Rochester, New York, USA
Died
November 18, 1994 (aged 86)
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.
Best known work
The Blues Brothers
1980
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
The Love Boat
1977
Snow-White
1933
Minnie the Moocher
1932
Triumph Over Violence
1965
Stormy Weather
1943
The Old Man of the Mountain
1933
Grass
1999
What's My Line?
1950Filmography
TBA
Ebony Paradeas (archive footage)
2024
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischeras The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
2020
Everything's Fineas Himself (Voice)
2012
Cab Calloway: Sketchesas Himself
2004
The Harlem Renaissanceas Self (archive footage)
2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Yearsas Self (archive footage)
2003
Piano Bluesas Self (archive footage)
1999
Grassas Self (archive footage)
1998
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'as Self (archive footage)
1995
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoonsas Self (archive footage)
1990
Night of 100 Stars IIIas Self
1990
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edgeas Self (archive footage)
1985
Night of 100 Stars IIas Self
1980
The Blues Brothersas Curtis
1977
1977
1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screenas Self (archive footage)
1974
Harry OTV1971
1971
1969
The Littlest Angelas Gabriel
1965
Triumph Over Violenceas Self (archive footage)
1965
The Cincinnati Kidas Yeller
1961
1960
Schlager-Raketenas Self