Cab Calloway

Actor

Born: December 25, 1907
Died: November 18, 1994 (age 86)
From: Rochester, New York, USA

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…

Filmography (55)

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer (2024)
The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
Everything's Fine (2020)
Himself (Voice)
Cab Calloway: Sketches (2012)
Himself
The Harlem Renaissance (2004)
Self (archive footage)
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
Self (archive footage)
Piano Blues (2003)
Self (archive footage)
Grass (1999)
Self (archive footage)
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' (1998)
Self (archive footage)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995)
Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
Self
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1990)
Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
Self
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Curtis
The Great Balloon Race
The Great Balloon Race (1977)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)
Self (archive footage)
The Littlest Angel (1969)
Gabriel
Triumph Over Violence (1965)
Self (archive footage)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Yeller
Schlager-Raketen (1960)
Self
St. Louis Blues (1958)
Blade
Jazz Ball (1956)
Self (archive footage)
Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955)
Self
Porgy and Bess in Wien (1953)
Cab Calloway Home Movie #1 (1951)
Director
Cab Calloway Home Movie #3 (1951)
Director
Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti (1951)
Director
Cab Calloway Home Movie #4 (1950)
Director
Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 (1950)
Director
Cab Calloway Home Movies (1948)
Director
Cab Calloway Home Movie #5 (1948)
Director