Cab Calloway
Acting • 1907-12-25 • 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 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
7.7The Blues Brothers
1980
6.8Snow-White
1933
6.6Minnie the Moocher
1932
6.8Stormy Weather
1943
7.0The Cincinnati Kid
1965
6.1Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
1934
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Filmography
- 2024Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max FleischerFilm★ 10.0
The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
- 2020
- 2012
- 2005★ 8.0
- 2004★ 5.3
- 2004★ 6.0
- 2003★ 6.5
- 1999★ 6.6
- 1998★ 6.5
- 1995★ 8.0
- 1990★ 7.0
- 1990★ 4.3
- 1985★ 6.8
- 1980★ 7.7
- 1977★ 6.2
- 1977
- 1975
- 1974Harry OTV★ 5.2
- 1971★ 6.1
- 1971★ 8.0
- 1969★ 5.6
- 1965★ 7.0
- 1965★ 7.5
- 1961★ 5.8
- 1960★ 9.0
- 1958★ 5.4
- 1958★ 7.7
- 1957★ 7.5
- 1956★ 8.0
- 1955★ 6.8
- 1953
- 1951★ 8.8
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951
- 1950★ 7.1
- 1950
- 1950
- 1948★ 6.8
- 1948
- 1948
- 1947★ 6.1
- 1945★ 10.0
- 1945★ 3.0
- 1945★ 2.0
- 1945★ 2.0
- 1945
- 1945Blowtop BluesFilm
- 1944★ 6.6
- 1943★ 6.8
- 1942★ 7.9
- 1942★ 5.5
- 1937★ 6.5
- 1937★ 7.8
- 1936★ 6.0
- 1935★ 6.1
- 1934★ 6.1
- 1934★ 6.4
- 1934
- 1933★ 6.8
- 1933★ 6.7
- 1933★ 5.7
- 1932★ 6.6
- 1932★ 7.1
