Cab Calloway
Birthday
1907/12/25
Day of death
1994/11/18 (86 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
Also know as
Cabell Calloway III
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. Call...Read more
Acting
(1965) The Cincinnati Kid
as Yeller
(1980) The Blues Brothers
as Curtis
(1943) Stormy Weather
as Cab Calloway
(1948) Cab Calloway Home Movies
as ---
(1958) St. Louis Blues
as Blade
(1947) Hi-De-Ho
as Himself
(1933) Snow-White
as Koko the Clown (voice)
(1933) The Old Man of the Mountain
as Himself & Old Man
(1936) The Singing Kid
as Cab Calloway
(1995) Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
as Self (archive footage)
(1944) Sensations of 1945
as Cab Calloway
(1932) The Big Broadcast
as as Cab Calloway Band
(1934) Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
as Old Man / Reporter
(1969) The Littlest Angel
as Gabriel
(1942) The Skunk Song
as ---
(1934) Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
as Cab Calloway
(1935) Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
as ---
(1937) Hi-De-Ho
as Cab Calloway
(1945) Walking with My Honey
as ---
(1990) Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
(1990) Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
as Self (archive footage)
(1950) Cab Calloway Home Movie #2
as Self
(1951) Cab Calloway Home Movie #1
as Self
(1951) Cab Calloway Home Movie #3
as Self
(1950) Cab Calloway Home Movie #4
as Self
(1948) Cab Calloway Home Movie #5
as Self
(1951) Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti
as Self
(1932) Minnie the Moocher
as Cab Calloway
(1985) Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
(1937) Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
as Self
(2024) Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
as The Old Man of the Mountain / Additional (voice)
(2004) The Harlem Renaissance
as Self (archive footage)
(2020) Everything's Fine
as Himself (Voice)
(1934) Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
as ---
(1933) International House
as Cab Calloway
(1945) We the Cats Shall Hep Ya
as Himself
Ebony Parade
as (archive footage)
(1955) Rhythm and Blues Revue
as Self
(2004) TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as Self (archive footage)
(1942) Blues in the Night
as ---
(1942) Minnie the Moocher
as Himself / Vocals
(1977) The Great Balloon Race
as ---
(1956) Jazz Ball
as Self (archive footage)
(2012) Cab Calloway: Sketches
as Himself
(2003) Piano Blues
as Self (archive footage)
(1975) Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
(1945) Blowtop Blues
as ---
(1945) I Was Here When You Left Me
as ---
(1945) Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
as ---
(1998) The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'
as Self (archive footage)
(1945) Caldonia
as Himself
(1999) Grass
as Self (archive footage)
(1960) Schlager-Raketen
as Self
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as ---
(1974) Harry O
as ---
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1971) The Pearl Bailey Show
as Self
(1977) The Love Boat
as Lionel Bigelow
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self
(1971) Great Performances
as Self
(1958) Kraft Music Hall
as Self
(1957) Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self