Gene Krupa
The Glenn Miller Story
as Gene KrupaA vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from...
Movie pageThe Best Years of Our Lives
as Musician - Drum Solo (archive footage) (uncredited)It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally...
Movie pageBall of Fire
as Himself — Orchestra LeaderA group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia....
Movie pageThe Benny Goodman Story
as uncreditedYoung Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever...
Movie pageHollywood Hotel
as Benny Goodman Drummer (uncredited)After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall...
Movie pageSome Like It Hot
as Gene KrupaNicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic...
Movie pageGlamour Girl
as Gene KrupaA talent scout and her colleague form their own company when their agency ignores their latest...
Movie pageThe Shining Future
as SelfDocumentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a...
Movie pageMake Believe Ballroom
as SelfLiza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery...
Movie pageGeorge White's Scandals
as Gene KrupaTwo couples work through their issues in this backstage Broadway musical.
Movie pageLet Me Off Uptown
as HimselfAnita O'Day with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra perform "Let Me Off Uptown".
Movie pageBeat the Band
as HimselfSinger Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.
Movie pageSyncopation
as Gene KrupaA young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.
Movie pageThe Big Broadcast of 1937
as Band DrummerThe employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of...
Movie pageAllen in Movieland
as SelfTV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming...
Movie pageJazz Ball
as Self (archive footage)A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats...
Movie pageBoy! What a Girl!
as himselfTwo silky-smooth producers line up a potential backer (who'll put up half the cash) for a...
Movie pageSmart Politics
as HimselfThe growth of juvenile crime in a small town starts a movement for the building of a youth center.
Movie pageThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as SelfThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...
TV Show pageThe Merv Griffin Show
as SelfThe Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...
TV Show pageStartime
as uncreditedStartime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American...
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