Cast & creator
Cab Calloway
Best known for The Mike Douglas Show, The Love Boat, What's My Line?
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.
Also known as: Cabell Calloway III
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1932–2024 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (73)
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The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Love Boat
Lionel J. Bigelow
1977
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Great Performances
Self
1971
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Harry O
1974
Kraft Music Hall
Self
1958
The Blues Brothers
Curtis
1980
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
1971
The Cincinnati Kid
Yeller
1965
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
1985
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
1990
The Harlem Renaissance
Self (archive footage)
2004
Piano Blues
Self (archive footage)
2003
Grass
Self (archive footage)
1999
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Self (archive footage)
2004
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
Self (archive footage)
1990
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Self (archive footage)
1995
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
Self
1937
The Littlest Angel
Gabriel
1969
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'
Self (archive footage)
1998
St. Louis Blues
Blade
1958
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
1975
Stormy Weather
Cab Calloway
1943
Triumph Over Violence
Self (archive footage)
1965
International House
Cab Calloway
1933
Snow-White
Koko the Clown (voice)
1933
The Big Broadcast
Cab Calloway
1932
The Singing Kid
Cab Calloway
1936
Rhythm and Blues Revue
Self
1955
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
Old Man / Reporter
1934
Sensations of 1945
Cab Calloway
1944
Porgy and Bess in Wien
1953
Blowtop Blues
1945
Schlager-Raketen
Self
1960Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
2024
The Old Man of the Mountain
Himself & Old Man
1933
Ebony Parade
(archive footage)
Caldonia
Himself
1945
Minnie the Moocher
Cab Calloway
1932
Blues in the Night
1942
Hi-De-Ho
Cab
1947
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
Cab Calloway
1934
We the Cats Shall Hep Ya
Himself
1945The Great Balloon Race
1977
Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
1945
Hi-De-Ho
Cab Calloway
1937
I Was Here When You Left Me
1945Walking with My Honey
1945
The Great Man: W.C. Fields
Self (clip from International House (1933)) (archive footage)
2005
Jazz Ball
Self (archive footage)
1956
Cab Calloway Home Movie #5
Self
1948Cab Calloway Home Movie #5
Director
1948Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
1935
Minnie the Moocher
Himself / Vocals
1942
Cab Calloway Home Movies
1948Cab Calloway Home Movies
Director
1948Cab Calloway Home Movies
Cinematography
1948Cab Calloway Home Movie #4
Self
1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #4
Director
1950Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti
Self
1951Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti
Director
1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #3
Self
1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #3
Director
1951Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
1934
Cab Calloway: Sketches
Himself
2012Cab Calloway Home Movie #2
Self
1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #2
Director
1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #1
Self
1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #1
Director
1951
Everything's Fine
Himself (Voice)
2020