Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
April 29, 1899
Died
May 24, 1974 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Also Known As
- Edward Kennedy Ellington
- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
Duke Ellington
Biography
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
Known For
Acting
7.6
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
6.5
The Apollo
2019
7.7
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019
7.5
Jazz
2001
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
7.8
Anatomy of a Murder
1959
7.0
What's My Line?
1950
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
6.5
Cabin in the Sky
1943
6.2
Jam Session
1942
6.6
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life
1935
5.7
Belle of the Nineties
1934
5.5
Murder at the Vanities
1934
6.3
Black and Tan
1929
