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Cab Calloway
Known for: ActingCabell "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 13
The Blues Brothers
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as Curtis 
The Cincinnati Kid
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as Yeller 
Grass
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as Self (archive footage) 
The Great Man: W.C. Fields
as Self (clip from International House (1933)) (archive footage) 
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
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as Self (archive footage) 
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
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as Self (archive footage) 
Stormy Weather
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as Cab Calloway 
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
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as Self 
Rhythm and Blues Revue
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as Self 
The Harlem Renaissance
as Self (archive footage) 
The Littlest Angel
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as Gabriel 
Hi-De-Ho
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as Cab 
St. Louis Blues
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as Blade