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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

72

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-12-25

Day of Death

1994-11-18 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

Rochester, New York, USA

Also Known As

Cabell Calloway III

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

Known For

Acting

The Cincinnati Kid

1965

The Cincinnati Kid

as

Yeller

The Blues Brothers

1980

The Blues Brothers

as

Curtis

Stormy Weather

1943

Stormy Weather

as

Cab Calloway

St. Louis Blues

1958

St. Louis Blues

as

Blade

Hi-De-Ho

1947

Hi-De-Ho

as

Himself

Snow-White

1933

Snow-White

as

Koko the Clown (voice)

The Old Man of the Mountain

1933

The Old Man of the Mountain

as

Himself & Old Man

The Singing Kid

1936

The Singing Kid

as

Cab Calloway

Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

1995

Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

as

Self (archive footage)

Sensations of 1945

1944

Sensations of 1945

as

Cab Calloway

The Big Broadcast

1932

The Big Broadcast

as

as Cab Calloway Band

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

1934

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

as

Old Man / Reporter

The Littlest Angel

1969

The Littlest Angel

as

Gabriel

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

1934

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

as

Cab Calloway

Hi-De-Ho

1937

Hi-De-Ho

as

Cab Calloway

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

1990

Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

as

Self (archive footage)

Minnie the Moocher

1932

Minnie the Moocher

as

Cab Calloway

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

2024

Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

as

The Old Man of the Mountain / Additional (voice)

The Harlem Renaissance

2004

The Harlem Renaissance

as

Self (archive footage)

Everything's Fine

2020

Everything's Fine

as

Himself (Voice)

International House

1933

International House

as

Cab Calloway

Ebony Parade

Ebony Parade

as

(archive footage)

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

2004

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

as

Self (archive footage)

Minnie the Moocher

1942

Minnie the Moocher

as

Himself / Vocals

Jazz Ball

1956

Jazz Ball

as

Self (archive footage)

Piano Blues

2003

Piano Blues

as

Self (archive footage)

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

1975

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

as

Self (archive footage)

Caldonia

1945

Caldonia

as

Himself

Grass

1999

Grass

as

Self (archive footage)

WrestleMania 2

1986

WrestleMania 2

as

Self

The Love Boat

The Love Boat

as

Lionel Bigelow

Production

Crew

Directing