Cab Calloway
ActingBorn
December 25, 1907
Died
November 18, 1994
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
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 …
Known For
Filmography
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 Great Balloon Race
1977
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
The Littlest Angel
1969
Triumph Over Violence
1965
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
Schlager-Raketen
1960
St. Louis Blues
1958
Jazz Ball
1956
Rhythm and Blues Revue
1955
Porgy and Bess in Wien
1953
Cab Calloway Home Movie #1
1951
Cab Calloway Home Movie #3
1951
Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti
1951
Cab Calloway Home Movie #2
1950
Cab Calloway Home Movie #4
1950
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
I Was Here When You Left Me
1945
Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
1945
Walking with My Honey
1945
Caldonia
1945
Sensations of 1945
1944
Stormy Weather
1943
The Skunk Song
1942
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
Ebony Parade