Cab Calloway

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-12-25 (87 years old)

Deathday

1994-11-18

Place of Birth

Rochester, New York, USA

Cab Calloway

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. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cab Calloway, licensed under CC-BY-S...

Acting

1965

1980

1943

Stormy Weather

as Cab Calloway

1958

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

1934

1937

Hi-De-Ho

as Cab Calloway

1990

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

as Self (archive footage)

1932

Minnie the Moocher

as Cab Calloway

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)

1933

International House

as Cab Calloway

-

Ebony Parade

as (archive footage)

2004

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

as Self (archive footage)

1942

Minnie the Moocher

as Himself / Vocals

1956

Jazz Ball

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Piano Blues

as Self (archive footage)

1975

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)

1945

Caldonia

as Himself

1999

Grass

as Self (archive footage)

1960

1986

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