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

• 2024Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer — The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)
• 1980The Blues Brothers — Curtis
• 1977The Great Balloon Race
• The Love Boat — Lionel J. Bigelow
• Harry O
• 1969The Littlest Angel — Gabriel
• 1965The Cincinnati Kid — Yeller
• 1958St. Louis Blues — Blade
• 1953Porgy and Bess in Wien
• 1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #1 — Self, Director
• 1951Cab Calloway Home Movie #3 — Self, Director
• 1951Cab Calloway Home Movie: Haiti — Self, Director
• Hallmark Hall of Fame
• 1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #2 — Self, Director
• 1950Cab Calloway Home Movie #4 — Self, Director
• 1948Cab Calloway Home Movie #5 — Self, Director
• 1948Cab Calloway Home Movies — Director, Cinematography
• 1947Hi-De-Ho — Cab
• 1945Blowtop Blues
• 1945Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
• 1945I Was Here When You Left Me
• 1945Walking with My Honey
• 1944Sensations of 1945 — Cab Calloway
• 1943Stormy Weather — Cab Calloway
• 1942Blues in the Night
• 1937Hi-De-Ho — Cab Calloway
• 1936The Singing Kid — Cab Calloway
• 1935Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party
• 1934Betty Boop's Rise to Fame — Old Man / Reporter
• 1934Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho — Cab Calloway
• 1934Jazz Icons: Cab Calloway
• 1933International House — Cab Calloway
• 1933Snow-White — Koko the Clown (voice)
• 1932Minnie the Moocher — Cab Calloway
• 1932The Big Broadcast — Cab Calloway
• Ebony Parade — (archive footage)

Appearances as themselves (29)

• 2020Everything's Fine — Himself (Voice)
• 2012Cab Calloway: Sketches — Himself
• 2005The Great Man: W.C. Fields — Self (clip from International House (1933)) (archive footage)
• 2004TV in Black: The First Fifty Years — Self (archive footage)
• 2004The Harlem Renaissance — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Piano Blues — Self (archive footage)
• 1999Grass — Self (archive footage)
• 1998The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' — Self (archive footage)
• 1995Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Night of 100 Stars III — Self
• 1990Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge — Self (archive footage)
• 1985Night of 100 Stars II — Self
• 1975Black Shadows on a Silver Screen — Self (archive footage)
• Great Performances — Self
• The Pearl Bailey Show — Self
• 1965Triumph Over Violence — Self (archive footage)
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• 1960Schlager-Raketen — Self
• Kraft Music Hall — Self
• Tonight Starring Jack Paar — Self
• 1956Jazz Ball — Self (archive footage)
• 1955Rhythm and Blues Revue — Self
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• 1945Caldonia — Himself
• 1945We the Cats Shall Hep Ya — Himself
• 1942Minnie the Moocher — Himself / Vocals
• 1937Manhattan Merry-Go-Round — Self
• 1933The Old Man of the Mountain — Himself & Old Man