Cab Calloway
December 25, 1907 (118 years old) in 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 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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- 2004 · The Harlem Renaissance as Self (archive footage)
- 2003 · Piano Blues as Self (archive footage)
- 1999 · Grass as Self (archive footage)
- 1986 · WrestleMania 2 (Duplicated) as Self
- 1985 · Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- 1980 · The Blues Brothers as Curtis
- 1977 · The Love Boat as Lionel J. Bigelow
- 1977 · The Great Balloon Race as
- 1975 · Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
- 1974 · Harry O as
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1971 · The Pearl Bailey Show as Self
- 1969 · The Littlest Angel as Gabriel
- 1965 · Triumph Over Violence as Self (archive footage)
- 1965 · The Cincinnati Kid as Yeller
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1960 · Schlager-Raketen as Self
- 1958 · Kraft Music Hall as Self
- 1958 · St. Louis Blues as Blade
- 1957 · Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- 1956 · Jazz Ball as Self (archive footage)
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as
- 1951 · Cab Calloway Home Movie #3 as Self
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self
- 1948 · The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- 1948 · Cab Calloway Home Movie #5 as Self
- 1943 · Stormy Weather as Cab Calloway
- 1937 · Manhattan Merry-Go-Round as Self
- 1936 · The Singing Kid as Cab Calloway
- 1934 · Betty Boop's Rise to Fame as Old Man / Reporter
- 1933 · The Old Man of the Mountain as Himself & Old Man
- 1933 · Snow-White as Koko the Clown (voice)
- 1932 · The Big Broadcast as Cab Calloway
- Future · Ebony Parade as (archive footage)
- 2024 · Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer as The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
- 2020 · Everything's Fine as Himself (Voice)
- 2012 · Cab Calloway: Sketches as Himself
- 2004 · TV in Black: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage)
- 1998 · The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' as Self (archive footage)
- 1995 · Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self (archive footage)
- 1990 · Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- 1990 · Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self (archive footage)
- 1955 · Rhythm and Blues Revue as Self
- 1951 · Cab Calloway Home Movie #1 as Self
- 1951 · Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti as Self
- 1950 · Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 as Self
- 1950 · Cab Calloway Home Movie #4 as Self
- 1948 · Cab Calloway Home Movies as
- 1947 · Hi-De-Ho as Himself
- 1945 · We the Cats Shall Hep Ya as Himself
- 1945 · Blowtop Blues as
- 1945 · Foo a Little Bally-Hoo as
- 1945 · I Was Here When You Left Me as
- 1945 · Walking with My Honey as
- 1945 · Caldonia as Himself
- 1944 · Sensations of 1945 as Cab Calloway
- 1942 · The Skunk Song as
- 1942 · Minnie the Moocher as Himself / Vocals
- 1942 · Blues in the Night as
- 1937 · Hi-De-Ho as Cab Calloway
- 1935 · Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party as
- 1934 · Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho as Cab Calloway
- 1934 · Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway as
- 1933 · International House as Cab Calloway
- 1932 · Minnie the Moocher as Cab Calloway