Cab Calloway
Acting Born: 1907-12-25 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
The Blues Brothers
Jazz Ball
Schlager-Raketen
Piano Blues
Triumph Over Violence
International House
The Cincinnati Kid
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
Night of 100 Stars III
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
The Big Broadcast
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
The Singing Kid
The Littlest Angel
St. Louis Blues
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
The Harlem Renaissance
