Cab Calloway
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1907-12-25 – 1994-11-18
Place of birth: 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.
Known for
The Cincinnati Kid
1965Yeller
The Blues Brothers
1980Curtis
Stormy Weather
1943Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway Home Movies
1948
St. Louis Blues
1958Blade
Hi-De-Ho
1947Himself
Snow-White
1933Koko the Clown (voice)
The Old Man of the Mountain
1933Himself & Old Man
The Singing Kid
1936Cab Calloway
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995Self (archive footage)
Sensations of 1945
1944Cab Calloway
The Big Broadcast
1932Cab Calloway
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
1934Old Man / Reporter
The Littlest Angel
1969Gabriel
The Skunk Song
1942
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
1934Cab CallowayCab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
1935
Hi-De-Ho
1937Cab CallowayWalking with My Honey
1945