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Dizzy Gillespie

Acting · Born October 21, 1917 · Cheraw, South Carolina, USA

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

Movies with Dizzy Gillespie

• The Beginnings of Bebop (1981) — Self
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024) — Self (archive footage)
• Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) — Self - Musician (archive footage)
• Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021) — Self (archive footage)
• The Harlem Renaissance (2004) — Self (archive footage)
• The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America (2012) — Self (archive footage)
• Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (2020) — Self (archive footage)
• Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure (2018) — Self (archive footage)
• The Hole (1962) — (voice)
• Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs (1990) — Self
• Improvisation (2004) — Self
• Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin (1993) — Self - Musician, Trumpet