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