Fats Waller - Turner Classic Movies

Biography

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Throughout his Hollywood career, Fats Waller's musical talent was featured in a variety of Hollywood productions. Waller worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "A Sense of Loss" (1972), "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" with Jane Russell (1955) and "Hall alla dorrar Oppna" with Kisa Magnusson (1973). He also contributed to "Hooray For Love" (1935) star...

Filmography

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Sophisticated Lady (1989)

Eraserhead (1977)

Stormy Weather (1943)

King of Burlesque (1936)

Hooray for Love (1935)

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

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Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser -- (Movie Clip) Be-Bop

Stormy Weather (1943) -- (Movie Clip) That Ain't Right

Biography

Throughout his Hollywood career, Fats Waller's musical talent was featured in a variety of Hollywood productions. Waller worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "A Sense of Loss" (1972), "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" with Jane Russell (1955) and "Hall alla dorrar Oppna" with Kisa Magnusson (1973). He also contributed to "Hooray For Love" (1935) starring Ann Sothern, "King of Burlesque" (1935) starring Warner Baxter and "Stormy Weather" (1943) starring Lena Horne. Waller was also credited in "Zelig" with Woody Allen (1983), "The Cotton Club" (1984) and "What Happened to Kerouac?" (1985). He also was recognized in "Death of a Soldier" with James Coburn (1986). Waller's music was most recently featured in the Jack Black comedy "Be Kind Rewind" (2008). Waller passed away in December 1943 at the age of 39.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Sophisticated Lady (1989)

Eraserhead (1977)

Stormy Weather (1943)

King of Burlesque (1936)

Hooray for Love (1935)

Music (Feature Film)

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

Me and Orson Welles (2009)

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

King of California (2007)

The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)

The White Countess (2005)

Around the Bend (2004)

The Human Stain (2003)

Anything Else (2003)

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

Town & Country (2001)

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

The Story of Us (1999)

Office Space (1999)

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

Trojan Eddie (1996)

Song ("Old Man Trouble")

Innocents Abroad (1992)

Curly Sue (1991)

The Marrying Man (1991)

Mobsters (1991)

Sophisticated Lady (1989)

In Country (1989)

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)

Death of a Soldier (1986)

What Happened to Kerouac? (1985)

The Cotton Club (1984)

They All Laughed (1981)

To the Count of Basie (1979)

Songs ("This Joint Is Jumpin'" "Ain'T Misbehavin'")

Interiors (1978)

Eraserhead (1977)

Lucky Lady (1975)

Song ("Ain'T Misbehavin")

Hall alla dorrar Oppna (1973)

The Grissom Gang (1971)

Satchmo the Great (1957)

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)

Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)

Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1952)

A Song Is Born (1948)

You Were Meant for Me (1948)

Killer Diller (1948)

Thousands Cheer (1944)

Atlantic City (1944)

Follow the Band (1943)

Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Cast (Special)

Jumpin' Jive (1989)

Music (Special)

Black and Blue (1993)

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989)

Jumpin' Jive (1989)

Song Performer ("Ain'T Misbehavin'")

Ain't Misbehavin' (1982)

Baryshnikov on Broadway (1980)

Twyla Tharp & Dancers (1976)

Life Events

Videos

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser -- (Movie Clip) Be-Bop Opening of Clint Eastwood's 1988 documentary, film shot by Michael and Christian Blackmore 20 years earlier, from Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser, directed by Charlotte Zwerin.

Stormy Weather (1943) -- (Movie Clip) That Ain't Right Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson here as just the waiter hoping for a break, in a Memphis club where Fats Waller and Ada Brown play themselves, a tune by Nat Cole and Irving Mills, in the all-black 20th Century-Fox musical Stormy Weather, 1943.

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