Count Basie

13 wins & 11 nominations. See more awards »

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Pearl Harbor Soundtrack

(2001)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Soundtrack

(2002)

The Salton Sea Soundtrack

(2002)

Lolita Soundtrack

(1997)

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Music department (2 credits)

2016 Trilogie De Tragedie (musician)

1958-1960 M Squad (TV Series) (composer - 79 episodes)

- The Bad Apple (1960) ... (composer: theme music)

- The Tiger's Cage (1960) ... (composer: theme music)

- Fire in the Sky (1960) ... (composer: theme music)

- Closed Season (1960) ... (composer: theme music)

- Badge for a Coward (1960) ... (composer: theme music)

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Actor (15 credits)

1974 Blazing Saddles
Count Basie

1969 New Orleans Jazz Festival 1969 (Video)

1966/I Made in Paris
Count Basie

1963 Here's Edie (TV Series)

- Episode #2.5 (1963)

1960 Cinderfella
Count Basie

1959 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Band Leader

- Episode #13.10 (1959) ... Band Leader (as Count Basie and His Band)

1950 Snader Telescriptions (TV Series)
Conductor

1950 Basie's Boogie (Short) (as Count Basie and His Orchestra)

1943 Crazy House
Count Basie (as Count Basie and His Orchestra)

1943 Top Man
Orchestra Leader

1943 Stage Door Canteen
Conductor of the Count Basie Orchestra

1943 Hit Parade of 1943
Conductor of the Count Basie Orchestra

1943 Reveille with Beverly
Count Basie - Count Basie and His Orchestra (uncredited)

1941 Air Mail Special (Short)

1938 Policy Man
Count Basie

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Composer (2 credits)

1962 Den förtrollade flaskan (Short)

1948 Killer Diller

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Soundtrack (113 credits)

2022 Peaky Blinders (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Black Day (2022) ... (performer: "Sixteen Men Swinging" - uncredited)

2020 Feels Good Man (Documentary) (performer: "Trey Of Hearts" - uncredited)

2020 The Glorias (performer: "Every Tub") / (writer: "Every Tub")

2019 Billions (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Chucky Rhoades's Greatest Game (2019) ... (performer: "Smack Dab In The Middle")

2018 Made in Great Britain (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)

- Steel (2018) ... (performer: "Dark Rupture" - uncredited)

2018 Succession (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Nobody Is Ever Missing (2018) ... (performer: "All of Me")

2018 Legion (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Chapter 19 (2018) ... (performer: "Topsy" - uncredited)

2018 When We First Met (writer: "Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)", "Jumpin' at the Woodside (Instrumental)")

2017 American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story (TV Mini Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)

- Before the Bunny: Marilyn Monroe (2017) ... (performer: "Roll 'Em Pete" - uncredited)

2016 Café Society (writer: "Taxi War Dance")

2015 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)

- Miley Cyrus/Sam Rockwell/Chef Danny Bowien (2015) ... (writer: "Jumpin' at the Woodside" - uncredited)

- Queen Latifah/Sam Rockwell/Something Rotten! (2015) ... (writer: "Jumpin' at the Woodside" - uncredited)

2015 All Things Must Pass (Documentary) (performer: "Red Bank Boogie") / (writer: "Red Bank Boogie")

Agent Carter (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2015) (writer - 1 episode, 2015)

- Bridge and Tunnel (2015) ... (performer: "Jumpin at the Woodside") / (writer: "Jumpin at the Woodside")

2013 42 (performer: "Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?")

2013 The Unmastered Art of Baking (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- The Unmastered Art of Baking Pear and Almond Cake (2013) ... (performer: "April in Paris")

2012/I Gambit (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

2012 Ginger & Rosa (performer: "L'il Darlin")

2012 Radioman (Documentary) (performer: "Dance Of The Gremlins") / (writer: "Dance Of The Gremlins")

2012 Paris-Manhattan (performer: "Back to the Apple') / (writer: "Back to the Apple')

2005-2012 Independent Lens (TV Series documentary) (writer - 2 episodes)

- Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock (2012) ... (writer: "Basie Boogie")

- Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton (2005) ... (writer: "Dicky's Dream")

2011 L.A. Noire (Video Game) ("One O'Clock Jump")

2011 The Music Never Stopped (performer: "Kansas City")

2010 BBC Swingin' Christmas (TV Special) (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

2009 Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (Documentary) (music: "Blee Blop Blues")

2009 In Plain Sight (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Duplicate Bridge (2009) ... (performer: "Lil' Darlin' (Remix)" (Uncredited))

Cold Case (TV Series) (1 episode, 2009) (writer - 2 episodes, 2005 - 2007)

- November 22 (2009) ... ("Moten Swing")

- World's End (2007) ... (writer: "Jumpin' at the Woodside" - uncredited)

- Colors (2005) ... (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

2009 An Education (writer: "One O'clock Jump")

2008 Nights in Rodanthe (performer: "Moten Swing") / (writer: "Jive At Five")

2008 Me and Orson Welles (performer: "One O'Clock Jump") / (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

2008 Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game) ("April in Paris", uncredited)

2007 The War (TV Mini Series documentary) (writer - 6 episodes)

- A World Without War: March 1945 - September 1945 (2007) ... (writer: "Every Tub")

- The Ghost Front: December 1944 - March 1945 (2007) ... (writer: "Taxi War Dance")

- FUBAR: September 1944 - December 1944 (2007) ... (writer: "Taxi War Dance", "The Basie Boogie")

- A Deadly Calling: November 1943 - June 1944 (2007) ... (writer: "Good Morning Blues")

- When Things Get Tough: January 1943 - December 1943 (2007) ... (writer: "The Basie Boogie", "One O'Clock Jump")

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2007 Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who (Documentary) (performer: "Oh Lonesome Me")

2007 State of Mind (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Helpy Helperpants (2007) ... (performer: "Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)")

2006 Click (performer: "With Plenty of Money and You")

2005 Rush: R30 (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

2004 The Whole Ten Yards (performer: "Are You Having Any Fun")

2004 Paternal Instinct (Documentary) (performer: "Anything Goes")

2003 The Blues (TV Mini Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)

- The Road to Memphis (2003) ... (writer: "Goin' to Chicago Blues")

2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (writer: "Jumpin' at the Woodside")

2002 Frida (writer: "Jumping at the Woodside")

2002 The Salton Sea (performer: "Brand New Wagon") / (writer: "Brand New Wagon")

2001 Pearl Harbor (performer: "Jumpin' at the Woodside") / (writer: "Jumpin' at the Woodside")

2001 61* (TV Movie) (performer: "The Kid From Red Bank")

2001 Amy's Orgasm (performer: "Hittin 12")

2001 Enigma (writer: "One O'Clock Jump" (1933))

2000 The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (TV Movie) (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

2000 The Thorn and the Rose (TV Series) (performer: "Tea For Two")

1997 Lolita (performer: "Royal Garden Blues")

1997 Out to Sea (writer: "Jumpin' at the Woodside")

1997 Sesame Street: Get Up and Dance (Short) (performer: "What's Your Number?" - uncredited)

1996 The English Patient (music: "One O'Clock Jump" (1933))

1996 Swingers (performer: "With Plenty of Money and You")

1996 Kansas City (writer: "Blues in the Dark", "I Left My Baby", "Lafayette")

1995 Get Shorty (performer: "Are You Havin' Any Fun")

1995 The Grass Harp (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1995 The Tuskegee Airmen (TV Movie) (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1995 The Confessional (performer: "Dark Rapture", "Blue and sentimental") / (writer: "Blue and sentimental")

1994 Baseball (TV Mini Series documentary) (writer - 4 episodes)

- A Whole New Ballgame (1994) ... (writer: "Pound Cake")

- The Capital of Baseball (1994) ... (writer: "Rockabye Basie")

- The National Pastime (1994) ... (writer: "I Left My Baby", "Rockabye Basie", "Ingin' the Ooh")

- Shadow Ball (1994) ... (writer: "Taxi War Dance", "Pound Cake")

1993 Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (Documentary) (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1993 Swing Kids (writer: "Jumpin' at the Woodside", "Shout and Feel It")

1992 Malcolm X (performer: "Undecided Blues", "The Jitters", "Feedin' The Bean") / (writer: "Feedin' The Bean")

1992 Zebrahead (writer: "Jump for Me")

1990 Alice (performer: "Flight of the Foo Birds" (1957))

1990 Un dia és un dia (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)

- Episode #2.18 (1990) ... (writer: "Jumpin' at the Woodside")

1989 Harlem Nights (performer: "One O'clock Jump") / (writer: "One O'clock Jump")

1986 Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (performer: "Hey Lawdy Mama")

1986 Hannah and Her Sisters ("Back to the Apple")

1985 Buddy Rich and His Band: Channel One Suite (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1983 Le Bal (performer: "Shuffle Blues")

1982 I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can ("I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan")

1981 Zoot Suit (writer: "Two O'Clock Jump" - uncredited)

1980 Inside Moves (performer: "Captain Bligh") / (writer: "Captain Bligh")

1980 Raging Bull (music: "Two O'Clock Jump")

1980 Stardust Memories (music: "One O'Clock Jump" (1933))

1980 The First 40 Years (TV Special) (writer: "Two O'Clock Jump" - uncredited)

1979 Wanda Nevada (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1978 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)

- Episode dated 3 August 1978 (1978) ... (writer: "Goin' to Chicago Blues")

1976 The Gong Show (TV Series) (music: "One O'Clock Jump", "Jumpin' at the Woodside")

1976 The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- The Original Rompin' Stompin' Hot and Heavy, Cool and Groovy All Star Jazz Show (1976) ... (performer: "Hammerin'", "Every Day I Have the Blues")

1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (Documentary) (performer: "Shout and Feel It" (1937)) / (writer: "Shout and Feel It" (1937))

1974 Here's Lucy (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)

- Lucy and Phil Harris Strike Up the Band (1974) ... (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1973 Slither (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1970 Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)

- Gary Burton, Buddy Tate, Clarke Boland (1970) ... (writer: "Jumpin' At The Woodside")

1966 Emma Zunz (Short) ("Blues Inside Out")

1966/I Made in Paris (performer: "Skol Sister", "Goof Proof")

1964 Sex and the Single Girl (performer: "Anniversary Song", "What Is This Thing Called Love?")

The Lively Ones (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 1963) (writer - 1 episode, 1963)

- Episode #2.6 (1963) ... (performer: "Nice Shot") / (writer: "Nice Shot")

1960-1962 NDR Jazz Workshops (TV Series) (writer - 4 episodes)

- No. 25 (1962) ... (writer: "Taps Miller")

- No. 13 (1960) ... (writer: "Jive At Five")

- No. 11 (1960) ... (writer: "Jive At Five ")

- No. 10 (1960) ... (writer: "Jumpin' At The Woodside")

1961 The Errand Boy (music: "Blues in Hoss' Flat" - uncredited)

1960 Startime (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)

- The Swingin' Years (1960) ... (writer: "One O'Clock Jump" - uncredited)

1958 The Subject Is Jazz (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)

- The Blues (1958) ... (writer: "Going to Chicago", "Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)")

- Swing (1958) ... (writer: "John's Idea", "One O'Clock Jump')

1957 Peyton Place (music: "One O'Clock Jump" (1937) - uncredited)

1957 Jamboree! (music: "One O'Clock Jump")

1957 M Squad (TV Series) (writer: "Theme From M Squad")

1957 The Nat King Cole Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Episode #1.13 (1957) ... (performer: "Lady Be Good" - uncredited)

1956 The Benny Goodman Story (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1955 Rhythm and Blues Revue (Documentary) (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

Show Time at the Apollo (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) (performer - 1 episode)

- Stars Over Harlem ... (writer: "Basie's Conversation", "One O'Clock Jump")

- Downbeat Revue ... (performer: "I Cried for You")

1949 Mother Is a Freshman (music: "One O'Clock Jump" - uncredited)

1948 Killer Diller (music: "Basie Boogie")

1945 Rockin' in the Rockies (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1945 Night Club Girl (music: "One O'Clock Jump" - uncredited)

1944 You Can't Ration Love (music: "One O'Clock Jump")

1943 Sweet Jam (Short) ("One O'Clock Jump")

1943 Hi Ya, Sailor (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1943 I Dood It (music: "One O'Clock Jump" (1937))

1943 Top Man (music: "Basie Boogie" - uncredited)

1943 Best Foot Forward (writer: "Two O'Clock Jump" (1939))

1943 Clancy Street Boys (writer: "One O'Clock Jump" (1933))

1943 Reveille with Beverly (writer: "One O'Clock Jump")

1943 The Powers Girl (music: "One O'Clock Jump")

1942 Springtime in the Rockies (writer: "Two O'Clock Jump")

1941 Take Me Back, Baby (Short) (writer: "Take Me Back, Baby")

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2010 Every Day (thanks)

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Self (81 credits)

2004/I Improvisation
Self

1985 Copenhagen Jazz Festival (TV Special)
Self

1984 The 5th Annual Black Achievement Awards (TV Special)
Self

1983 Salute! (TV Series)
Self

- Lou Rawls (1983) ... Self

1982 Lou Rawls Parade of Stars (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 26 December 1982 (1982) ... Self

1981 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special documentary)
Self - Honoree

1981 Frank Sinatra: The Man and His Music (TV Special)
Self - Pianist

1981 The Grammy Hall of Fame (TV Special)
Self

1981 Count Basie at Carnegie Hall (TV Special)
Self

1981 New York, New York (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 2 March 1981 (1981) ... Self

1980 The Big Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.8 (1980) ... Self

1979 The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (TV Special)
Self

1979 The Last of the Blue Devils (Documentary)
Self

1979 Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 3 September 1979 (1979) ... Self

1978 Big Band Bash (TV Special)
Self

1978 The 20th Annual Grammy Awards (TV Special)
Self

1963-1977 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 5 January 1977 (1977) ... Self

- Count Basie, Hugh Downs, Professor Irwin Corey, Yvonne Constant, Northern Calloway, Helen Gurley Brown, John Mack Carter (1970) ... Self

- Tony Bennett, Count Basie, Richard Boone, Hermione Gingold, Gloria Loring, Shelley Berman (1967) ... Self

- Paul Ford, Milt Kamen, Dolores Wilson, Dr. Albert Burke, Count Basie (1963) ... Self

- Kaye Ballard, Hermione Gingold, Stanley Myron Handelman, King G. Morton, Count Basie (1963) ... Self

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1976 The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (TV Series)
Self

- The Original Rompin' Stompin' Hot and Heavy, Cool and Groovy All Star Jazz Show (1976) ... Self

1976 John Denver and Friend (TV Special)
Self

1976 Piano Party (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.5 (1976) ... Self

1963-1976 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series)
Self / Themselves / Self - Musician

- Episode #15.104 (1976) ... Self - Musician

- Episode #9.257 (1970) ... Self

- Episode #7.229 (1968) ... Self

- Episode #3.56 (1963) ... Themselves (as Count Basie Orchestra)

- Episode #3.54 (1963) ... Themselves (as Count Basie Orchestra)

1975 The Royal Variety Performance (TV Special)
Self

1975 Sammy and Company (TV Series)
Self

- Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie and Bob Hope (1975) ... Self

1973 Iltatähti (TV Series)
Self - Interviewee

- Episode dated 6 November 1973 (1973) ... Self - Interviewee

1973 The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Fred Astaire (TV Movie)
Self - Performer

1973 Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly (TV Special)
Self

1972 Timex All-Star Swing Festival (TV Special)
Self

1970 ...and Beautiful II (TV Special)
Self - Pianist

1970 The David Frost Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #2.221 (1970) ... Self

1969 The Dennis Wholey Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.31 (1969) ... Self

1968-1969 BBC Show of the Week (TV Series)
Self / Self - and his Orchestra

- Tony Bennett and Count Basie (1969) ... Self

- Together... Count Basie and Georgie Fame (1968) ... Self - and his Orchestra

1969 Sounds of Summer (TV Series)
Self

- New Orleans' second annual International Jazz Festival (1969) ... Self

1967-1969 The Joey Bishop Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #3.190 (1969) ... Self

- Episode #1.88 (1967) ... Self

1963-1969 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Self - Guest / Self

- Count Basie, EJ Peaker, John Lindsay, Peter Ustinov, Charlie Callas (1969) ... Self

- Episode dated 3 November 1967 (1967) ... Self - Guest

- Sammy Davis, Jr., Susan Oliver, Clive Revill, Count Basie, Roger Miller (1967) ... Self - Guest

- Jerry Lewis (guest host); Count Basie (1966) ... Self - Guest

- Count Basie, Lena Horne (1965) ... Self

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1968 Newport Jazz Festival (TV Special)
Self

1968 The Jerry Lewis Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.26 (1968) ... Self

1948-1967 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Self - Band Leader / Self / Self - Jazz Pianist

- Tony Bennett, Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood, Count Basie, Totie Fields, Peter Gennaro, Hendra & Ullett (1967) ... Self - Band Leader

- Count Basie, Diahann Carroll, Totie Fields, London Lee, Peter Gennaro, Sandler & Young (1966) ... Self - Band Leader

- Episode #19.30 (1966) ... Self - Band Leader

- Episode #19.29 (1966) ... Self - Band Leader

- Debbie Reynolds, Kirk Douglas, Totie Fields, Count Basie, Ed Ames, Allen & Rossi, Woody Herman, Cilla Black, Dick Capri, Arthur Haynes (1966) ... Self

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1967 Center Stage (TV Mini Series)
Self - Pianist

- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Self - Pianist

1966 The Jackie Gleason Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.10 (1966) ... Self

1965-1966 The Andy Williams Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #5.10 (1966) ... Self

- Episode #3.15 (1965) ... Self

1965 The Hollywood Palace (TV Series)
Self - Pianist

- Episode #3.5 (1965) ... Self - Pianist

1965 The Rat Pack Captured (Documentary)
Self

1965 Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (TV Series)
Self - Guest Jazz Performer

- Episode #3.27 (1965) ... Self - Guest Jazz Performer

1965 That Regis Philbin Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.59 (1965) ... Self

1964 The Bell Telephone Hour (TV Series)
Self - Leader of His Orchestra

- Episode #6.11 (1964) ... Self - Leader of His Orchestra

1963 The Jerry Lewis Show (TV Series)
Self - Bandleader

- Episode #1.3 (1963) ... Self - Bandleader

1963 Sarah Sings & Basie Swings (TV Special)
Self

1963 The Lively Ones (TV Series)
Self - Performer

- Episode #2.6 (1963) ... Self - Performer

- Episode #2.1 (1963) ... Self - Performer

1962 Trumpeten - jazzmusikaliskt allehanda (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Vad är jazz? (1962) ... Self

1962 The Tonight Show (TV Series)
Self - Orchestra Leader

- Episode #1.114 (1962) ... Self - Orchestra Leader

1962 The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #5.225 (1962) ... Self

1961 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series)
Self

- America's Music - Music of the Thirties (1961) ... Self

1960-1961 The Garry Moore Show (TV Series)
Self

- Joe Williams, Jean Carroll, Count Basie and His Orchestra (1961) ... Self

- Gretchen Wyler, Count Basie, Joe Williams (1960) ... Self

1960 Astaire Time (TV Special)
Self

1960 Startime (TV Series)
Self

- The Swingin' Years (1960) ... Self

1959 Sunday Showcase (TV Series)
Self - Recipient

- The 1st Annual Grammy Awards (1959) ... Self - Recipient

1959 Great Music from Chicago (TV Series)
Self

1959 The Milton Berle Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode dated 18 March 1959 (1959) ... Self - Guest

1959 Count Basie in Zürich (TV Mini Series)
Self - Musician

1956-1958 The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series)
Self - Bandleader / Self - Pianist / Self - Conductor

- Count Basie & his Orchestra, Joe Williams, Alan Young, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Don Cornell (1958) ... Self - Bandleader

- Count Basie, Joe Bushkin, Teddy Wilson, Jane Powell, Phil Harris, Igor and H (1958) ... Self - Pianist

- Buddy Hackett, Count Basie & his Orchestra, The Four Lads (1956) ... Self - Conductor

1958 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)
Self

- Frankie Laine, Teresa Brewer, Count Basie's Band with Joe Williams (1958) ... Self

1957 The Big Record (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.13 (1957) ... Self

1957 The Seven Lively Arts (TV Series)
Self

- The Sound of Jazz (1957) ... Self

1957 The Julius LaRosa Show (TV Series)
Self

- Count Basie & Orchestra., Joe Williams, The Seven Ashtons, Gene Sheldon, Lou Carter (1957) ... Self

1955-1957 The Jackie Gleason Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest Jazz Pianist / Self - Guest Conductor

- Music U.S.A. (1957) ... Self - Guest Jazz Pianist

- Episode dated 12 March 1955 (1955) ... Self - Guest Conductor

1957 The Nat King Cole Show (TV Series)
Self - Pianist

- Episode #1.13 (1957) ... Self - Pianist

1957 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV Series)
Self

- Perry Como, Art Carney, Stubby Kaye, Count Basie, Joe Williams, The Skylarks (1957) ... Self

1956 Basin Street Revue
Self

1954-1956 The Tonight Show (TV Series)
Self

- Count Basie, Morey Amsterdam (1956) ... Self

- Count Basie & his Orchestra, Kenny Delmar (1955) ... Self

- Count Basie and His Orchestra (1954) ... Self

1955 Rhythm and Blues Revue (Documentary)
Self

1955 Show Time at the Apollo (TV Series)
Orchestra Leader / Self - Orchestra Leader

- Stars Over Harlem ... Orchestra Leader (uncredited)

- Downbeat Revue ... Self - Orchestra Leader

1955 Stage Show (TV Series)
Self

- Jack Carter/Morey Amsterdam/Count Basie (1955) ... Self

- Count Basie/Kate Smith/Charlie Manna (1955) ... Self

1955 Music 55 (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Harold Arlen, Joe Williams, Julie Wilson (1955) ... Self

1953 The Steve Allen Show presented by Knickerbocker Beer (TV Series)
Self

- Buddy Hackett, Count Basie & his Orchestra, The Four Lads, Bobby Rosengarden (1953) ... Self

1953 Nothing But the Best (TV Series)
Self

- Count Basie/Roger Price (1953) ... Self

1951 'Sugar Chile' Robinson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and His Sextet (Short)
Self

1950 Cavalcade of Bands (TV Series)
Self (with the Count Basie Orchestra)

1949 Floor Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.25 (1949) ... Self

1949 Adventures in Jazz (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.22 (1949) ... Self

1943 Choo Choo Swing (Short)
Self (as Count Basie and His Band)

1941 Take Me Back, Baby (Short)
Self

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Archive footage (36 credits)

2021 Rembob'Ina (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Jazz Club (2021) ... Self

2019 Billie (Documentary)
Self

2019 Sid & Judy (Documentary)
Self

2018 Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes (Documentary)
Self

2018 Quincy (Documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2018 Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America (Documentary)
Self - Band Leader-Pianist

2015 My Music: Starlight Ballroom (TV Movie)
Self

2014 Jazz Legends in Their Own Words (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2013 America's Book of Secrets (TV Series documentary)
Self - Jazz Musician

- The Drug Wars (2013) ... Self - Jazz Musician

2012 How Playboy Changed the World (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2010 Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l'Italia fece fuori il più grande clarinettista del jazz (Documentary)
Self

2010 Love Letters in the Sands of Time (TV Movie)
Self

2009 Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (Documentary)
Self

2008 Pioneers of Television (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Late Night (2008) ... Self

2007 Jazz Giants of the 20th Century (Video documentary)
Self

2004 Harlem Renaissance (Video documentary)

2003 Georgie Fame 60 år (TV Movie documentary)

2003 My Kinda People (TV Movie)
Self

2003 Strangers in the Night: The Bert Kaempfert Story (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2003 The Blues (TV Mini Series documentary)
Self

- Piano Blues (2003) ... Self

2000 Playboy 2000: The Party Continues (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1999 The Rat Pack (TV Series documentary)
Self

1998 Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years (Video documentary)
Self

1998 Great Performances (TV Series)
Self

- Frank Sinatra: The Very Good Years (1998) ... Self

1995 Masters of American Music (TV Mini Series)
Self

1994 A Great Day in Harlem (Documentary)
Self (uncredited)

1993 Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (Documentary)
Self - Performer

1993 Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (TV Special documentary)
Self

1991 The Republic Pictures Story (TV Movie documentary)
Self (clip from Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)) (uncredited)

1990 American Masters (TV Series documentary)
Self

- John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen (1990) ... Self

1989 The Ladies Sing the Blues (TV Movie)
Self

1986 Mensch Meier (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 17 April 1986 (1986) ... Self

1979 To the Count of Basie (TV Special documentary)
Self

1977 All You Need Is Love (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Jungle Music: Jazz (1977) ... Self

1971 Black Music in America: From Then Till Now (Documentary short)
Self

1947 Ebony Parade
Self

Personal Details

Other Works:

CD: "Basie's Basement" (SSP) See more »

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3 Biographical Movies | 2 Print Biographies | 1 Portrayal | 3 Articles | See more »

Alternate Names:

Count Basie and His Band | Count Basie and His Orchestra | Count Basie Orchestra

Spouse:

Catherine Morgan (her death) (1 child)

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Leo

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