Cab Calloway

Known for: Acting
Born: December 25, 1907, Rochester, New York, USA
Died: November 18, 1994
Movies: 61

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.

Upcoming Cab Calloway Movies

7.0

Ebony Parade

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

7.7

The Blues Brothers

1980

7.0

The Cincinnati Kid

1965

6.8

Snow-White

1933

6.6

Minnie the Moocher

1932

7.5

Triumph Over Violence

1965

6.8

Stormy Weather

1943

6.7

The Old Man of the Mountain

1933

6.6

Grass

1999

5.7

International House

1933

6.1

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

1934

Filmography

2024	Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer	The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
2020	Everything's Fine	Himself (Voice)
2012	Cab Calloway: Sketches	Himself
2005	The Great Man: W.C. Fields	Self (clip from International House (1933)) (archive footage)
2004	The Harlem Renaissance	Self (archive footage)
2004	TV in Black: The First Fifty Years	Self (archive footage)
2003	Piano Blues	Self (archive footage)
1999	Grass	Self (archive footage)
1998	The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'	Self (archive footage)
1995	Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons	Self (archive footage)
1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self
1990	Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge	Self (archive footage)
1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self
1980	The Blues Brothers	Curtis
1977	The Great Balloon Race
1975	Black Shadows on a Silver Screen	Self (archive footage)
1969	The Littlest Angel	Gabriel
1965	Triumph Over Violence	Self (archive footage)
1965	The Cincinnati Kid	Yeller
1960	Schlager-Raketen	Self
1958	St. Louis Blues	Blade
1956	Jazz Ball	Self (archive footage)
1955	Rhythm and Blues Revue	Self
1953	Porgy and Bess in Wien
1951	Cab Calloway Home Movie #1	Self
1951	Cab Calloway Home Movie #3	Self
1951	Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti	Self
1950	Cab Calloway Home Movie #2	Self
1950	Cab Calloway Home Movie #4	Self
1948	Cab Calloway Home Movies
1948	Cab Calloway Home Movie #5	Self
1947	Hi-De-Ho	Cab
1945	We the Cats Shall Hep Ya	Himself
1945	Blowtop Blues
1945	Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
1945	I Was Here When You Left Me
1945	Walking with My Honey
1945	Caldonia	Himself
1944	Sensations of 1945	Cab Calloway
1943	Stormy Weather	Cab Calloway
1942	Blues in the Night
1942	Minnie the Moocher	Himself / Vocals
1937	Manhattan Merry-Go-Round	Self
1937	Hi-De-Ho	Cab Calloway
1936	The Singing Kid	Cab Calloway
1935	Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
1934	Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho	Cab Calloway
1934	Betty Boop's Rise to Fame	Old Man / Reporter
1934	Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
1933	The Old Man of the Mountain	Himself & Old Man
1933	Snow-White	Koko the Clown (voice)
1933	International House	Cab Calloway
1932	The Big Broadcast	Cab Calloway
1932	Minnie the Moocher	Cab Calloway

Directing, Writing & Producing

1951	Cab Calloway Home Movie #1	Director
1951	Cab Calloway Home Movie #3	Director
1951	Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti	Director
1950	Cab Calloway Home Movie #2	Director
1950	Cab Calloway Home Movie #4	Director
1948	Cab Calloway Home Movies	Director
1948	Cab Calloway Home Movie #5	Director

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