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.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1907-12-25 · Rochester, New York, USA
- Died
- 1994-11-18
Known for
- The Blues Brothers (1980) — Curtis
- The Cincinnati Kid (1965) — Yeller
- The Love Boat (1977) — Lionel J. Bigelow
- Snow-White (1933) — Koko the Clown (voice)
- Minnie the Moocher (1932) — Cab Calloway
- Triumph Over Violence (1965) — Self (archive footage)
- Stormy Weather (1943) — Cab Calloway
- The Old Man of the Mountain (1933) — Himself & Old Man
- Grass (1999) — Self (archive footage)
- What's My Line? (1950) — Self
- Great Performances (1971) — Self
- International House (1933) — Cab Calloway
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
- Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934) — Old Man / Reporter
- Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934) — Cab Calloway
- Harry O (1974)