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Actor
Cab Calloway
Acting1907Rochester, 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 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.
Credits
65- 2024Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischeras The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)Movie
- 2020
Everything's Fineas Himself (Voice)Movie - 2012
Cab Calloway: Sketchesas HimselfMovie - 2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Yearsas Self (archive footage)Movie - 2004
The Harlem Renaissanceas Self (archive footage)Movie - 2003
Piano Bluesas Self (archive footage)Movie - 1999
Grassas Self (archive footage)Movie - 1998
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'as Self (archive footage)Movie - 1995
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoonsas Self (archive footage)Movie - 1990
Night of 100 Stars IIIas SelfMovie - 1990
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edgeas Self (archive footage)Movie - 1985
Night of 100 Stars IIas SelfMovie
