Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 25, 1907
Place of Birth
Rochester, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Cabell Calloway III
Cab Calloway
Biography
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 - Movies
The Blues Brothers
as Curtis
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
The Cincinnati Kid
as Yeller
Grass
as Self (archive footage)
Triumph Over Violence
as Self (archive footage)
Stormy Weather
as Cab Calloway
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
as Self (archive footage)
The Singing Kid
as Cab Calloway
Piano Blues
as Self (archive footage)
