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Cab Calloway
Rochester, New York, USA
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 U…
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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.
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2024
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
Movie The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
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2020
Everything's Fine
Movie Himself (Voice)
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2012
Cab Calloway: Sketches
Movie Himself
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2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
The Harlem Renaissance
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2003
Piano Blues
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Grass
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1998
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1990
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie Self
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1990
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1985
Night of 100 Stars II
Movie Self
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1980
The Blues Brothers
Movie Curtis
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1977
The Love Boat
TV show Lionel J. Bigelow
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1977
The Great Balloon Race
Movie
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1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1974
Harry O
TV show
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1971
Great Performances
TV show Self
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1971
The Pearl Bailey Show
TV show Self
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1969
The Littlest Angel
Movie Gabriel
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1965
Triumph Over Violence
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1965
The Cincinnati Kid
Movie Yeller
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self
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1960
Schlager-Raketen
Movie Self
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1958
Kraft Music Hall
TV show Self
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1958
St. Louis Blues
Movie Blade
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1957
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
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1956
Jazz Ball
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1955
Rhythm and Blues Revue
Movie Self
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1953
Porgy and Bess in Wien
Movie
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1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV show
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1951
Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti
Movie Self
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1951
Cab Calloway Home Movie #1
Movie Self
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1951
Cab Calloway Home Movie #3
Movie Self
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1950
What's My Line?
TV show Self
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1950
Cab Calloway Home Movie #4
Movie Self
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1950
Cab Calloway Home Movie #2
Movie Self
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
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1948
Cab Calloway Home Movies
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1948
Cab Calloway Home Movie #5
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