Cast & creator
Louis Armstrong
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mentalist, What's My Line?
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly recognizable deep and distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing, vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics. Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general. Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over," whose skin-color was secondary to his amazing talent in an America that was severely racially divided. It allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a person of color. While he rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, he was privately a huge supporter of the Civil Rights movement in America.
Also known as: Louis Daniel Armstrong, Satchmo , Pops, Satch
98
film credits
23
television credits
113
1930–2025 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (121)
Showing 121 of 121 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mentalist
Songs
2008
What's My Line?
Self
1950
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Omnibus
Self
1967Omnibus
1967
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
The Steve Allen Show
Self - Jazz Trumpeter
1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
The Oscars
Self
1953
Discorama
Self
1959
Kraft Music Hall
Self
1958
The Flip Wilson Show
Self
1970
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
1963
Shindig!
Self - Singer
1964Shindig!
Self
1964
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
1959
The Hollywood Palace
Self
1964
DuPont Show of the Month
Self
1957
The Johnny Cash Show
Self
1969
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Songs
1969
Hello, Dolly!
Orchestra Leader
1969The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
1971
High Society
Louis Armstrong
1956
Jazz
Self (archive footage)
2001
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
2022
The Sound of 007
Self (archive footage)
2022
Paris Blues
Wild Man Moore
1961
The Glenn Miller Story
Louis Armstrong
1954
A Man Called Adam
Willie Ferguson
1966
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Self (archive footage)
2024
A Song Is Born
Louis Armstrong
1948
Here Comes the Groom
Louis Armstrong (uncredited)
1951
The Harlem Renaissance
Self (archive footage)
2004
Auf Wiedersehen
er selbst
1961
It's Black Entertainment
Self (archive footage)
2002
Tenderness
Music
1985
Cabin in the Sky
The Trumpeter
1943
Bert Stern - Original Madman
2011
Deadly Melody
Music
2025
Show-Business at War
Self
1943
The World of Polygoon
Self (archive footage)
1994
Jazz Evolution
Self - Trumpet
2008
The Five Pennies
Louis Armstrong
1959
Birth of the Blues
Self (archive footage)
1941
Going Places
Gabe
1938
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Self
1960
The Strip
Himself
1951
When the Boys Meet the Girls
Louise Armstrong
1965
Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires
Self (voice) (archive sound)
2022
Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer
Self (archive footage)
2006
Every Day's a Holiday
Louis Armstrong
1937
Espetáculo
Music
2023
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Self (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
2019
Tight Shoes
Compositor
2021
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
Self (archive footage)
1993
The Story Of The Blues
Self
2004
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
1958
The Beat Generation
Louis Armstrong
1959
Glory Alley
Shadow Johnson
1952
Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
Self (archival footage)
1992
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
Self (archive footage)
1993
Pennies from Heaven
Henry
1936
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
Self
1982Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love
Self (Archive Footage)
2003
The Magic of Bing Crosby
Self (archive footage)
1991Louis Armstrong v Praze
Self
1965
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Self (archive footage)
2014
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
Himself
1932
Music Inn
Himself (archive footage)
2007
Pillow to Post
Orchestra Leader
1945
The Day of the Oath
Self
1965
Swing With Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Tony Bennett
2001
Atlantic City
Himself
1944
Saluti e baci
himself
1953
Shine
Self
1942
Artists & Models
Self
1937
Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing
Self (archive footage)
1993
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection
Himself
2005
The Edsel Show
Self
1957
Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001
Himself (archive footage)
2001
Louis Armstrong: Live in '59
Trumpet, Vocal
2006
Louis Armstrong: The Louis Armstrong Show
Trumpet/Vocals
2005
Louis Armstrong & Benny Goodman - Sounds in Motion
2000
The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
1999The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
Self
2009
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
…Sings Musicals
Self (archive footage)
2012
New Orleans
Himself
1947
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
Louis Armstrong
1932
Doctor Rhythm
Trumpet Player
1938Sleepy Time Down South
Self
1942Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis & Ella and Louis Again
Self
2013Rhein-Melodie - Wein, Gesang und gute Laune
himself
1966
Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
Self
2008
Louis Armstrong: Live in Australia
Chanteur, Trompettiste,
1964On the Road with Duke Ellington
Self
1974
København, Kalundborg og -?
1934
I'm in the Revue
Band Leader
1950
Disneyland After Dark
1962
Jam Session
Himself
1944Berlin-Melodie
1963
The Jazz Ambassadors
Self (archive footage)
2018
Jazz Ball
Self (archive footage)
1956
Ex-Flame
Louis Armstrong
1930
Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962
Self
2007
Dark Eyes
Self (archive footage)
2021
Swingin' on Nothin'
Self
1942
Året var 1955
Self (archive footage)
2005
La Paloma
Louis Armstrong
1959Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen
Himself
1934
Kærlighedens melodi
Musician with Orchestra
1959
Satchmo the Great
1957
Memories
Music
2025Louis Armstrong in Concert
Self - Performer (archive footage)
2021Hallo Satchmo
Self
1965And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
Songs
2019
Why America
Self (archive footage)
1970