Cab Calloway

Explore Cab Calloway's movie filmography on ReelBot, including film credits, roles, release dates, ratings, and movie details.

Acting

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.

Filmography

• Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer (2024)
• Everything's Fine (2020)
• Cab Calloway: Sketches (2012)
• The Great Man: W.C. Fields (2005)
• The Harlem Renaissance (2004)
• TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
• Piano Blues (2003)
• Grass (1999)
• The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' (1998)
• Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995)
• Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
• Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1990)
• Night of 100 Stars II (1985)
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• The Great Balloon Race (1977)
• Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)
• The Littlest Angel (1969)
• Triumph Over Violence (1965)
• The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
• Schlager-Raketen (1960)
• St. Louis Blues (1958)
• Jazz Ball (1956)
• Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955)
• Porgy and Bess in Wien (1953)
• Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti (1951)
• Cab Calloway Home Movie #1 (1951)
• Cab Calloway Home Movie #3 (1951)
• Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 (1950)
• Cab Calloway Home Movie #4 (1950)
• Cab Calloway Home Movies (1948)
• Cab Calloway Home Movie #5 (1948)
• Hi-De-Ho (1947)
• We the Cats Shall Hep Ya (1945)
• Blowtop Blues (1945)
• Foo a Little Bally-Hoo (1945)
• I Was Here When You Left Me (1945)
• Walking with My Honey (1945)
• Caldonia (1945)
• Sensations of 1945 (1944)
• Stormy Weather (1943)
• Blues in the Night (1942)
• Minnie the Moocher (1942)
• Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)
• Hi-De-Ho (1937)
• The Singing Kid (1936)
• Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935)
• Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
• Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934)
• Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway (1934)
• The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
• Snow-White (1933)
• International House (1933)
• The Big Broadcast (1932)
• Minnie the Moocher (1932)
• Ebony Parade