Dizzy Gillespie

Career Overview

Dizzy Gillespie has 70 screen credits in a career dating back to 1946. Signature works include Jivin' in Be-Bop, Cool, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

70

Birth Date

1917-10-21

Birth Place

Cheraw, South Carolina, USA

Known For

• 

  Jivin' in Be-Bop
• Cool
• 

  Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
• 

  Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970
• 

  Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70
• Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal

Frequent Collaborators

• Chet Baker (1 collaborations)
• Charlie Parker (1 collaborations)
• Dave Brubeck (1 collaborations)
• Miles Davis (1 collaborations)
• Patrice Lumumba (1 collaborations)
• Louis Armstrong (1 collaborations)
• Nikita Khrushchev (1 collaborations)
• Andrée Blouin (1 collaborations)
• Abbey Lincoln (1 collaborations)
• Max Roach (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (62 credits)

  • Cool

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Maurice Baquet, The Accorded

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2023
  • Jazz Club 2

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Jazz session: Dizzy Gillepsie en concert au studio 104 - 1970

    Self - trompettiste

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Charlie Parker: Bird Songs

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Jazz: The Only Way of Life

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

    Self - Musician (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2019
  • Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • The Jazz Ambassadors

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2018
  • Brownie Speaks

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Jazz Legends in Their Own Words

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • The Music According to Tom Jobim

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2012
  • All-Star Jazz Show: Live from The Ed Sullivan Theater

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Jazz Icons: Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 & '70

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Improvisation

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • The Harlem Renaissance

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • A Great Day in Harlem

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin

    Self - Musician, Trumpet

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • El invierno en Lisboa

    Bill Swann

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Amazonia

    (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • To Bop or Not To Be: A Jazz Life

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Slim Gaillard's Civilisation

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba

    Self - Trumpet

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Royal Festival Hall

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Didn't We Ramble On

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Music in Monk Time

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • The Cosmic Eye

    The Musicians

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Six Short Films of Les Blank (1960-1985)

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • Olympic Gala

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • The Cosby Show

    - Play It Again, Vanessa (1984) ... Mr. Hampton actor actors
    1984
  • A Family Circus Easter

    Easter Bunny (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • Dizzy's Dream Band

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • The Beginnings of Bebop

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Música para Sempre

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • The Last of the Blue Devils

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • The Muppet Show

    - Dizzy Gillespie (1980) ... Self - Special Guest Star actor actors
    1976
  • Dizzy Gillespie Quartet @ Berliner Jazztage 1974

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Voyage to Next

    Father Time (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Jazz Is Our Religion

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Great Performances

    - Episode 3 (1993) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 4 (1986) ... Self actor actors
    1971
  • The Dick Cavett Show

    - George Wein, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, June Christy, Joe Williams (1972) ... Self - Guest actor actors

    - Dizzy Gillespie, Nicholas Johnson, Sir John Masterman, Vincent Viano (1972) ... Self - Guest actor actors

    - Dizzy Gillespie, Evel Knievel, Averell Harriman (1971) ... Self - Guest actor actors
    1968
  • Duke Ellington: Love You Madly

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • The Hat

    The First Border Guard (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Dizzy Gillespie

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Look at Life: Jazz All the Way

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • The Hole

    (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    - Episode 74 (1992) ... Self (archive footage) actor actors

    - Episode 198 (1979) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 91 (1979) ... Self actor actors
    1962
  • The Mike Douglas Show

    - Episode 71 (1962) ... Self actor actors

    - Episode 67 (1962) ... Self actor actors
    1961
  • Date with Dizzy

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Jivin' in Be-Bop

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1946

• sound (8 credits)

  • A Supermarket in California

    music

    sound
    2024
  • El invierno en Lisboa

    original music composer

    sound
    1991
  • Hello

    original music composer

    sound
    1984
  • Second Chance: Sea

    original music composer

    sound
    1977
  • Voyage to Next

    original music composer

    sound
    1974
  • A Smattering of Spots

    music

    sound
    1958
  • Date with Dizzy

    music

    sound
    1956
  • Things to Come

    music

    sound
    1953