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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cab Calloway, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Rochester, New York, USA, 1907-12-25

Died: 1994-11-18

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1932	Minnie the Moocher	Cab Calloway	66
2	1932	The Big Broadcast	as Cab Calloway Band	71
3	1933	International House	Cab Calloway	57
4	1933	Snow-White	Koko the Clown (voice)	68
5	1933	The Old Man of the Mountain	Himself & Old Man	66
6	1934	Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway		0
7	1934	Betty Boop's Rise to Fame	Old Man / Reporter	58
8	1934	Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho	Cab Calloway	66
9	1935	Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party		52
10	1936	The Singing Kid	Cab Calloway	40
11	1937	Hi-De-Ho	Cab Calloway	80
12	1937	Manhattan Merry-Go-Round	Self	60
13	1942	Blues in the Night		55
14	1942	Minnie the Moocher	Himself / Vocals	80
15	1942	The Skunk Song		100
16	1943	Stormy Weather	Cab Calloway	69
17	1944	Sensations of 1945	Cab Calloway	62
18	1945	Caldonia	Himself	0
19	1945	Walking with My Honey		0
20	1945	Blowtop Blues		0
21	1945	Foo a Little Bally-Hoo		20
22	1945	I Was Here When You Left Me		20
23	1945	We the Cats Shall Hep Ya	Himself	30
24	1947	Hi-De-Ho	Himself	56
25	1948	Cab Calloway Home Movie #5	Self	0
26	1948	Cab Calloway Home Movies		0
27	1950	Cab Calloway Home Movie #2	Self	0
28	1950	Cab Calloway Home Movie #4	Self	0
29	1951	Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti	Self	0
30	1951	Cab Calloway Home Movie #1	Self	0
31	1951	Cab Calloway Home Movie #3	Self	0
32	1955	Rhythm and Blues Revue	Self	60
33	1956	Jazz Ball	Self (archive footage)	70
34	1958	St. Louis Blues	Blade	78
35	1960	Schlager-Raketen	Self	0
36	1965	The Cincinnati Kid	Yeller	70
37	1969	The Littlest Angel	Gabriel	53
38	1975	Black Shadows on a Silver Screen	Self (archive footage)	0
39	1977	The Great Balloon Race		0
40	1980	The Blues Brothers	Curtis	77
41	1985	Night of 100 Stars II	Self	80
42	1986	WrestleMania 2	Self	60
43	1990	Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge	Self (archive footage)	0
44	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
45	1995	Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons	Self (archive footage)	80
46	1998	The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'	Self (archive footage)	50
47	1999	Grass	Self (archive footage)	65
48	2003	Piano Blues	Self (archive footage)	65
49	2004	The Harlem Renaissance	Self (archive footage)	60
50	2004	TV in Black: The First Fifty Years	Self (archive footage)	40
51	2012	Cab Calloway: Sketches	Himself	0
52	2020	Everything's Fine	Himself (Voice)	0
53	2024	Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer	The Old Man of the Mountain / Additional (voice)	100
54		Ebony Parade	(archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1950	What's My Line?	Self	69
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame		86
4	1957	Tonight Starring Jack Paar	Self	70
5	1958	Kraft Music Hall	Self	47
6	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
7	1971	The Pearl Bailey Show	Self	0
8	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
9	1974	Harry O		46
10	1977	The Love Boat	Lionel Bigelow	63