Cab Calloway
Acting
December 25, 1907
Rochester, 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.
Movies
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
The Blues Brothers
1980
The Old Man of the Mountain
1933
Jazz Ball
1956
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
1934
Triumph Over Violence
1965
The Cincinnati Kid
1965
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
1937
Piano Blues
2003
Grass
1999
The Littlest Angel
1969
Schlager-Raketen
1960
The Harlem Renaissance
2004
WrestleMania 2 (Duplicated)
1986
Snow-White
1933
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
St. Louis Blues
1958
The Big Broadcast
1932
The Singing Kid
1936
Cab Calloway Home Movie #5
1948
