Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996)

Actress | Music Department | Composer

On Saturday, June 15th, 1996, an era in jazz singing came to an end, with the death of Ella ...

Born: April 25, 1917
Died: June 15, 1996 (age 79)

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Filmography

Known For

Sphere Soundtrack (1998)
Assassin's Creed Soundtrack (2016)
When Harry Met Sally... Soundtrack (1989)
Known For

Raging Bull Soundtrack (1980)
Soundtrack

Outer Range (2022)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2022)
Hightown (2021)
Hawkeye (2021)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2021)
Needle in a Timestack (2021)
Only Murders in the Building (2021)
The Photograph (2021)
Ted Lasso (2021)
Outside the Wire (2021)
The Crown (2020)
Lucifer (2020)
Hollywood (2020)
Zeit.geschichte (2019)
9-1-1 (2019)
The Good Liar (2019)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Just Mercy (2019)
Mindhunter (2019)
Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten (2018)
Preguntes freqüents (2018)
Taxing Love (2018)
Lethal Weapon (2017)
Popular Voices at the BBC (2017)
Gregory Porter's Popular Voices (2017)
Marshall (2017)
Electric Dreams (2017)
Downsizing (2017)
Salvation (2017)
The Last Tycoon (2017)
Ismael's Ghosts (2017)
The Trip to Spain (2017)
Sandy Wexler (2017)
American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story (2017)
Assassin's Creed (2016)
An American Girl Story: Maryellen 1955 - Extraordinary Christmas (2016)
Containment (2016)
Wayward Pines (2016)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2016)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Joy (2015)
Ovation (2015)
The Man in the High Castle (2015)
Fallout 4 (2015)
Phantom Boy (2015)
The X Factor UK (2015)
Black Mass (2015)
Looking for Grace (2015)
The Clan (2015)
The Voice (2015)
The Age of Adaline (2015)
Better Call Saul (2015)
Tidsrejsen (2014)
Waterloo Road (2014)
Forever (2014)
So You Think You Can Dance (2009-2014)
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film (2014)
Manhattan (2014)
Masters of Sex (2013-2014)
The 50 Year Argument (2014)
Committed (2014)
Dancing with the Stars (2006-2014)
Salaud, on t'aime. (2014)
Call the Midwife (2014)
Dancing on Ice (2009-2014)
Garconira (2013)
American Hustle (2013)
Mannenharten (2013)
Triptych (2013)
Longwave (2013)
Reaching for the Moon (2013)
Supernatural (2013)
Monty Don's French Gardens (2013)
Parenthood (2012)
What If... (2012)
Populaire (2012)
DCI Banks (2012)
American Horror Story (2012)
Love, Marilyn (2012)
The Master (2012)
Paraphilia (2012)
A Little Dream of Me (2012)
On the Road (2012)
Grey's Anatomy (2012)
Paris-Manhattan (2012)
The River (2012)
We'll Take Manhattan (2012)
Revenge (2011)
Pan Am (2011)
Friends with Kids (2011)
So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2011)
Koszmar minionej zimy (2011)
L.A. Noire (2011)
20 to 1 (2011)
Friday Night Lights (2011)
Real-Life Mallory (2010)
Nurse Jackie (2010)
Barney's Version (2010)
Fringe (2010)
Private Practice (2010)
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
A Girls Night Out (2009)
Mr. Nobody (2009)
The Answer Man (2009)
Taylor (2008)
The Starter Wife (2008)
Fallout 3 (2008)
The Return of the War Room (2008)
Singin' in the Rain (2008)
Two Lovers (2008)
Skins (2008)
Recipes for Disaster (2008)
Eterna Magia (2007)
American Masters (1999-2007)
How About You (2007)
Mad Men (2007)
Great Performances (2007)
Ella (2007)
Protagonistas del recuerdo (2007)
Midnight Son (2007)
Teeth (2007)
Torchwood (2007)
House (2006)
The Holiday (2006)
Everyone's Hero (2006)
The Break-Up (2006)
Ghost Whisperer (2005)
Bewitched (2005)
7th Heaven (2005)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
The Aviator (2004)
Snow (2004)
The Uninvited Guest (2004)
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
Kinsey (2004)
Cold Case (2004)
Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003)
Miss Match (2003)
Elf (2003)
Pepper Chocolate (2003)
The In-Laws (2003)
It Runs in the Family (2003)
Sinatra: The Classic Duets (2002)
The West Wing (2002)
Naked (2002)
Gilmore Girls (2002)
Pretenders (2002)
C'est la vie (2001)
Don't Say a Word (2001)
Focus (2001)
An American Rhapsody (2001)
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Amy's Orgasm (2001)
The Thorn and the Rose (2000)
Stardom (2000)
The Sopranos (2000)
Any Given Sunday (1999)
Zwei Männer am Herd (1999)
Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999)
At First Sight (1999)
Election Night (1998)
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998)
Sex and the City (1998)
Sphere (1998)
Lolita (1997)
The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
One Fine Day (1996)
My Fellow Americans (1996)
The English Patient (1996)
My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
Jumanji (1995)
The Grass Harp (1995)
Forget Paris (1995)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Miami Rhapsody (1995)
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
The War Room (1993)
Aqui na Terra (1993)
Malcolm X (1992)
Damned in the U.S.A. (1992)
The Setting Sun (1992)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1973-1992)
Wild Blade (1991)
Little Man Tate (1991)
Sinatra 75: The Best Is Yet to Come (1990)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
The Cosby Show (1989)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Saturday Night Live (1989)
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1989)
Kriminalnyy talant (1989)
Drei D (1988)
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
The Singing Detective (1986)
Contract (1985)
Desert Hearts (1985)
Het bittere kruid (1985)
Melanie (1982)
The 33rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1981)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Carpenters: Music, Music, Music (1980)
Dinah! (1977)
A Place for Lovers (1968)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968)
Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967)
The Dean Martin Show (1966-1967)
All My Life (1966)
The Danny Kaye Show (1966)
The Andy Williams Show (1966)
Coloquio en Segovia (1964)
NDR Jazz Workshops (1962)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: An Afternoon with Frank Sinatra (1959)
But Not for Me (1959)
The Tender Game (1958)
The Frank Sinatra Show (1958)
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
The Colgate Comedy Hour (1955)
Unusual Occupations (1948)
The Bandit (1946)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
Broadway Serenade (1939)
Honolulu (1939)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Soundtrack

Remember When... (1981)
Actress

Ella Fitzgerald: Frosty the Snowman Singer (2020)
The White Shadow Maxine Jefferies (1981)
Ella Fitzgerald - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 Ella Fitzgerald (1975)
All My Life Vocalist (1966)
Let No Man Write My Epitaph Flora (1960)
St. Louis Blues Singer (1958)
Pete Kelly's Blues Maggie Jackson (1955)
Actress

Ride 'Em Cowboy Ruby (1942)
Archive footage

Reframed: Marilyn Monroe (2022)
King of Cool (2021)
Rembob'Ina (2021)
PopStory - Aneb od vinylu k iPodu (2020)
Ronnie's (2020)
Zeit.geschichte (2019)
L'Histoire nous le dira (2019)
The Apollo (2019)
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (2019)
Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes (2018)
Quincy (2018)
Popular Voices at the BBC (2017)
Gregory Porter's Popular Voices (2017)
Pure Love: The Voice of Ella Fitzgerald (2017)
My Music: Songbook Standards - As Time Goes By (2015)
My Music: Starlight Ballroom (2015)
American Masters (1993-2014)
The Sixties (2014)
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words (2014)
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark (2014)
Soul Boys of the Western World (2014)
Soul Power! (2013)
America's Book of Secrets (2013)
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas (2013)
Jazz Divas Gold (2013)
How Playboy Changed the World (2012)
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America (2012)
The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim (2012)
Gershwin's Summertime: The Song That Conquered the World (2011)
Sings the Great American Songbook (2010)
Life Is Bearable at Times... (2010)
Love Letters in the Sands of Time (2010)
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me (2009)
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)
Legends (2007)
Great Performances (1994-2007)
Protagonistas del recuerdo (2007)
Beyond Tomorrow (2006)
MythBusters (2005)
Mwah! The Best of the Dinah Shore Show (2003)
Strangers in the Night: The Bert Kaempfert Story (2003)
When I Fall in Love: The One & Only Nat King Cole (2003)
Sinatra: The Classic Duets (2002)
Rhapsody in Black (2002)
It's Black Entertainment (2002)
Walk on By: The Story of Popular Song (2001)
Jazz (2001)
Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years (1998)
A Really Big Show: Ed Sullivan's 50th Anniversary (1998)
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood (1998)
A Celebration of America's Music (1998)
Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters (1997)
Sinatra Duets (1994)
Victor Borges Tivoli 150 år (1993)
More of 'the Best of the Hollywood Palace' (1993)
Showtime (1993)
The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion (1993)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1992)
Nat King Cole: The Incomparable Nat King Cole Volume 1 (1991)
The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show (1991)
Abbott and Costello in the Movies (1990)
Maxine Sullivan: Love to Be in Love (1990)
France Gall: Ella, elle l'a (1987)
The Hollywood Palace (1982)
Jazz Greats (1982)
A Salute to Duke (1981)
Best of the Dean Martin Show (1979)
The Carol Burnett Show (1978)
All You Need Is Love (1977)
Archive footage

The Hollywood Palace (1970)
Og avisen dør med døgnet (1969)
Music Department

Arts (2019)
Music Department

Trilogie De Tragedie (2016)
Moordterras (1991)
Composer

ARS medica (1996)
Composer

Un héroe se hace a patadas (1995)

Videos

Awards

19 wins & 8 nominations.

Did You Know

She was a victim in an early attempt to integrate the classical music audience in Houston, Texas. In 1955, she, Dizzy Gillespie and Illinois Jacquet were arrested by the vice squad before a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert at Music Hall, charged ...

Quotes

[To music conductor André Previn, who she had been encouraging to relax, when he mentioned that her cue was about to come up] Honey, get the hell back in that pit!