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.

Known For

The Mike Douglas Show

The Love Boat

Great Performances

What's My Line?

The Ed Sullivan Show

Harry O

Kraft Music Hall

The Blues Brothers

All Movies (55)

• Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer2024 · as The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
• Everything's Fine2020 · as Himself (Voice)
• Cab Calloway: Sketches2012 · as Himself
• The Harlem Renaissance2004 · as Self (archive footage)
• TV in Black: The First Fifty Years2004 · as Self (archive footage)
• Piano Blues2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• Grass1999 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'1998 · as Self (archive footage)
• Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons1995 · as Self (archive footage)
• Night of 100 Stars III1990 · as Self
• Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge1990 · as Self (archive footage)
• Night of 100 Stars II1985 · as Self
• The Blues Brothers1980 · as Curtis
• The Great Balloon Race1977
• Black Shadows on a Silver Screen1975 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Littlest Angel1969 · as Gabriel
• Triumph Over Violence1965 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Cincinnati Kid1965 · as Yeller
• Schlager-Raketen1960 · as Self
• St. Louis Blues1958 · as Blade
• Jazz Ball1956 · as Self (archive footage)
• Rhythm and Blues Revue1955 · as Self
• Porgy and Bess in Wien1953
• Cab Calloway Home Movie #11951 · as Self
• Cab Calloway Home Movie #31951 · as Self
• Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti1951 · as Self
• Cab Calloway Home Movie #21950 · as Self
• Cab Calloway Home Movie #41950 · as Self
• Cab Calloway Home Movies1948
• Cab Calloway Home Movie #51948 · as Self
• Hi-De-Ho1947 · as Cab
• We the Cats Shall Hep Ya1945 · as Himself
• Blowtop Blues1945
• I Was Here When You Left Me1945
• Foo a Little Bally-Hoo1945
• Walking with My Honey1945
• Caldonia1945 · as Himself
• Sensations of 19451944 · as Cab Calloway
• Stormy Weather1943 · as Cab Calloway
• The Skunk Song1942
• Blues in the Night1942
• Minnie the Moocher1942 · as Himself / Vocals
• Manhattan Merry-Go-Round1937 · as Self
• Hi-De-Ho1937 · as Cab Calloway
• The Singing Kid1936 · as Cab Calloway
• Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party1935
• Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho1934 · as Cab Calloway
• Betty Boop's Rise to Fame1934 · as Old Man / Reporter
• Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway1934
• The Old Man of the Mountain1933 · as Himself & Old Man
• Snow-White1933 · as Koko the Clown (voice)
• International House1933 · as Cab Calloway
• The Big Broadcast1932 · as Cab Calloway
• Minnie the Moocher1932 · as Cab Calloway
• Ebony Parade— · as (archive footage)

All TV Shows (10)

• The Love Boat1977 · as Lionel J. Bigelow
• Harry O1974
• Great Performances1971 · as Self
• The Pearl Bailey Show1971 · as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• Kraft Music Hall1958 · as Self
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar1957 · as Self
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951
• What's My Line?1950 · as Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show1948 · as Self