Cab Calloway
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 25 December 1907 · Rochester, New York, USA
- Died
- 18 November 1994
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.
Known for
Acting 58
- 2026Ebony Parade as (archive footage)
- 2024Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer as The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
- 2020Everything's Fine as Himself (Voice)
- 2012Cab Calloway: Sketches as Himself
- 2005The Great Man: W.C. Fields as Self (clip from International House (1933)) (archive footage)
- 2004The Harlem Renaissance as Self (archive footage)
- 2004TV in Black: The First Fifty Years as Self (archive footage)
- 2003Piano Blues as Self (archive footage)
- 1999Grass as Self (archive footage)
- 1998The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' as Self (archive footage)
- 1995Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self (archive footage)
- 1990Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- 1990Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge as Self (archive footage)
- 1986WrestleMania 2 (Duplicated) as Self
- 1985Night of 100 Stars II as Self
- 1980The Blues Brothers as Curtis
- 1977The Great Balloon Race
- 1975Black Shadows on a Silver Screen as Self (archive footage)
- 1969The Littlest Angel as Gabriel
- 1965Triumph Over Violence as Self (archive footage)
- 1965The Cincinnati Kid as Yeller
- 1960Schlager-Raketen as Self
- 1958St. Louis Blues as Blade
- 1956Jazz Ball as Self (archive footage)
- 1955Rhythm and Blues Revue as Self
- 1953Porgy and Bess in Wien
- 1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #3 as Self
- 1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #1 as Self
- 1951Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti as Self
- 1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #4 as Self
- 1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 as Self
- 1948Cab Calloway Home Movies
- 1948Cab Calloway Home Movie #5 as Self
- 1948The Ed Sullivan Show as Self · 9 episodes
- 1947Hi-De-Ho as Cab
- 1945We the Cats Shall Hep Ya as Himself
- 1945Blowtop Blues
- 1945I Was Here When You Left Me
- 1945Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
- 1945Walking with My Honey
- 1945Caldonia as Himself
- 1944Sensations of 1945 as Cab Calloway
- 1943Stormy Weather as Cab Calloway
- 1942The Skunk Song
- 1942Blues in the Night
- 1942Minnie the Moocher as Himself / Vocals
- 1937Manhattan Merry-Go-Round as Self
- 1937Hi-De-Ho as Cab Calloway
- 1936The Singing Kid as Cab Calloway
- 1935Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
- 1934Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho as Cab Calloway
- 1934Betty Boop's Rise to Fame as Old Man / Reporter
- 1934Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
- 1933The Old Man of the Mountain as Himself & Old Man
- 1933Snow-White as Koko the Clown (voice)
- 1933International House as Cab Calloway
- 1932The Big Broadcast as Cab Calloway
- 1932Minnie the Moocher as Cab Calloway
Directing 7
- 1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #3 · director
- 1951Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti · director
- 1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #1 · director
- 1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 · director
- 1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #4 · director
- 1948Cab Calloway Home Movies · director
- 1948Cab Calloway Home Movie #5 · director
crew 1
- 1948Cab Calloway Home Movies · cinematography