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Dizzy Gillespie

Actor · 49 credits · 2 in highly-rated films

Best known for Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)

Frequent collaborators: Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones

Movies (49 total, ranked by score)

  1. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    2024 · ★ 7.7 (74 votes)

    Documentary, History, Music

    1

  2. Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure

    2018 · ★ 9.0 (3 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    2

  3. The Hat

    1964

    Animation, Comedy

    3

  4. A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba

    1989 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    4

  5. The Last of the Blue Devils

    1979 · ★ 8.0 (4 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    5

  6. Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong

    2008 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Music

    6

  7. The Cosmic Eye

    1986 · ★ 5.8 (5 votes)

    Animation, Science Fiction, Music

    7

  8. Brownie Speaks

    2014 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Drama, Documentary, History

    8

  9. Dizzy Gillespie

    1964 · ★ 6.6 (5 votes)

    9

  10. Improvisation

    2004

    Music, Documentary

    10

  11. Jazz Legends in Their Own Words

    2014

    Documentary, Music

    11

  12. The Hole

    1962 · ★ 5.8 (26 votes)

    Animation, Comedy

    12

  13. Jazz: The Only Way of Life

    2019 · ★ 8.3 (3 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    13

  14. Dizzy Gillespie - Live in Montreal

    2002 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    Music

    14

  15. The Jazz Ambassadors

    2018 · ★ 7.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    15

  16. A Great Day in Harlem

    1994 · ★ 6.2 (9 votes)

    Documentary, Music, History

    16

  17. The Music According to Tom Jobim

    2012 · ★ 7.0 (7 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    17

  18. Voyage to Next

    1974 · ★ 4.6 (7 votes)

    Animation

    18

  19. Maurice Baquet, The Accorded

    2023 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    19

  20. Charlie Parker: Bird Songs

    2022 · ★ 6.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    20

  21. Jivin' in Bebop

    1946 · ★ 5.3 (3 votes)

    Music

    21

  22. A Family Circus Easter

    1982 · ★ 8.5 (2 votes)

    Animation, Comedy

    22

  23. Smith, James O. - Organist, USA. 1. Die Europa-Tournee des Jazz-Organisten Jimmy Smith

    1966

    Documentary

    23

  24. Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar

    1995

    Documentary, Music

    24

  25. Amazonia

    1990 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Animation

    25

  26. Movie Music Man: A Portrait of Lalo Schifrin

    1993

    Documentary, Family, Music

    26

  27. Benny Carter: Symphony in Riffs

    1990

    Documentary, Music

    27

  28. Date with Dizzy

    1956 · ★ 4.0 (4 votes)

    Animation, Music, Comedy

    28

  29. Jazz Is Our Religion

    1972

    Documentary, Music

    29

  30. Look at Life: Jazz All the Way

    1963

    Documentary, Music

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.