Cab Calloway

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.

Filmography (64 Appearances)

Ebony Parade

TBA

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

2024

Everything's Fine

2020

Cab Calloway: Sketches

2012

The Harlem Renaissance

2004

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

2004

Piano Blues

2003

Grass

1999

The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'

1998

Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

1995

Night of 100 Stars III

1990

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

1990

Night of 100 Stars II

1985

The Blues Brothers

1980

The Love Boat

1977

The Great Balloon Race

1977

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

1975

Harry O

1974

Great Performances

1971

The Pearl Bailey Show

1971

The Littlest Angel

1969

Triumph Over Violence

1965

The Cincinnati Kid

1965

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

Schlager-Raketen

1960

Kraft Music Hall

1958

St. Louis Blues

1958

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957

Jazz Ball

1956

Rhythm and Blues Revue

1955

Porgy and Bess in Wien

1953

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti

1951

Cab Calloway Home Movie #1

1951

Cab Calloway Home Movie #3

1951

What's My Line?

1950

Cab Calloway Home Movie #2

1950

Cab Calloway Home Movie #4

1950

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948

Cab Calloway Home Movies

1948

Cab Calloway Home Movie #5

1948

Hi-De-Ho

1947

We the Cats Shall Hep Ya

1945

Blowtop Blues

1945

Foo a Little Bally-Hoo

1945

I Was Here When You Left Me

1945

Walking with My Honey

1945

Caldonia

1945

Sensations of 1945

1944

Stormy Weather

1943

Blues in the Night

1942

Minnie the Moocher

1942

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

1937

Hi-De-Ho

1937

The Singing Kid

1936

Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party

1935

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

1934

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

1934

Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway

1934

The Old Man of the Mountain

1933

Snow-White

1933

International House

1933

The Big Broadcast

1932

Minnie the Moocher

1932 Debut
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