Biography
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly recognizable deep and distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexteri...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Key of Gibraltar
2025
Songs
A day prior to embarking on a European trip with his cousin Artie. Greg, a recent college graduate receives a once in a lifetime opportunity granted t...

Memories
2025
Music
The memories of a woman, condensed into four periods.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. In 1960, the UN became the...

'Tis The Season
2023
Music
After Matt's feelings over take him, he confronts his friend, Seth, wondering why he never got the present he deserved, only to find his friend felt t...

Espetáculo
2023
Music

Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires
2022
as Self (archive Voice)
Experience the stunning spectacle of Coldplay’s record-breaking Music Of The Spheres world tour at your local cinema with this spectacular worldwide l...

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
as Self (archive footage)
An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and...

The Sound of 007
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Pull back the curtain on the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, from Sean Connery’s Dr No through to Daniel Craig’s final outing ...

Dark Eyes
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Arguably Russia’s most famous folk song, Dark Eyes has captured hearts around the world for the past 100 years. This portrait explores the song’s some...

Tight Shoes
2021
Compositor
After having his shoes polished, a deadbeat runs away without paying for this task. Deceived, it is up to the shoeshine boy to chase the crook in orde...
Louis Armstrong in Concert
2021
as Self - Performer
First broadcast on the centenary of his birth, legendary jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong in performance.

The Jazz Ambassadors
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz a...

Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in w...

Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
2014
as Self
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from the golden age of jazz. Featuring some of the greatest nam...
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis & Ella and Louis Again
2013
as Self
Ella and Louis found Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet. The studio album came out when both figures were a...

…Sings Musicals
2012
as Self (archive footage)
BBC archive performances from musicals, including Ella Fitzgerald singing Mack the Knife, Captain Sensible performing a classic from South Pacific and...

Bert Stern - Original Madman
2011
as Self (archive footage)
The untold and intimate life story of one of the greatest American photographers of all time, Bert Stern. After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at L...
The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best
2009
as Self
The Stars In Concert DVD series presents the best performances of legendary artists who have secured a well-deserved place in music history. On this D...

Jazz Evolution
2008
as Self - Trumpet

Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
2008
as Self
Documenting Louis Armstrong's appearance at the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival.

Music Inn
2007
as Himself (archive footage)
During a decade rife with paranoia, in the middle of the McCarthy era, Music Inn was a bold experiment. Halfway between the Second World War and The C...

Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962
2007
as Self
Louis Armstrong live in Stockholm 1962 features a TV appearance by Armstrong from 1962 -- working on trumpet and vocals with a small group that includ...

Louis Armstrong: Live in '59
2006
as Trumpet, Vocal
_Jazz Icons: Louis Armstrong_ is one of the only known complete Armstrong concerts from the 1950s to be captured on film. This 55-minute set, filmed i...

Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer
2006
as Self (archive footage)
"Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer" is a feature-length documentary. In this entertaining look at the legendary singer's life, hosted by two-time Gra...

Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection
2005
as Himself
This remarkable DVD includes rare TV and film performances, an especially rare radio interview with Mike Wallace, an audio-only rehearsal session with...

Året var 1955
2005
as Self (archive footage)
1955 - the year when The rip hunter is buried in snow for eight days before his ski pole with a movie ticket is discovered. Ingrid Bergman gets bad re...

Louis Armstrong: The Louis Armstrong Show
2005
as Trumpet/Vocals
Best known for his unique style on the jazz trumpet (and his famously inflated cheeks), Louis Armstrong became an enduring figure in pop culture thank...

The Story Of The Blues
2004
as Self
The story of The Blues traces the four main traditions of blues music: Form Blues, Blues, Urban Blues and Blues Electric. The blues has evolved and di...

The Harlem Renaissance
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the challenge...
Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love
2003
as Self (Archive Footage)
A short documentary about the making of the 1956 film, High Society. Hosted by Celeste Holm.

It's Black Entertainment
2002
as Self (archive footage)
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Willi...

Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001
2001
as Himself (archive footage)
A documentary featuring archive footage to celebrate the 100th birth of jazz legend Louis Armstrong.

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong
1999
as Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles Armstron...

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extraordinary life - from her humble beginnings as a s...

Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing
1993
as Self (archive footage)
This biography of musical legend Benny Goodman contains testimonials from various contemporaries and scholars, and offers several clips of the man in ...

Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Blues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the creation of rock 'n' roll in the '50s. The scales, chords,...

The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
1993
as Self (archive footage)
Legendary showman Danny Kaye's greatest moments have been handpicked by Kaye's daughter, Dena, in this lighthearted compilation. Highlights ranging fr...

Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
1992
as Self (archival footage)
Satchmo. There are few people in this country - or around the world - who will not recognize that name. Louis Armstrong embodied 20th-century American...

The Magic of Bing Crosby
1991
as Self (archive footage)
Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feistein, and wife Kathryn Crosby celebrate the voice and singing style of crooner Bing Crosby through clips from his theatr...

Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
1982
as Self
Through interviews, archival footage, photos and classic tunes, learn about the remarkable career and troubled life of legendary jazz cornetist Bix Be...

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...

On the Road with Duke Ellington
1974
as Self
Documentary portrait of the legendary jazz bandleader. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000.

Why America
1970
as Self (archive footage)
A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in American society that caused the United ...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
Songs
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. ...

Hello, Dolly!
1969
as Orchestra Leader
Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace...

A Man Called Adam
1966
as Willie Ferguson
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Rhein-Melodie - Wein, Gesang und gute Laune
1966
as himself

When the Boys Meet the Girls
1965
as Louise Armstrong
A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees.
Hallo Satchmo
1965
as Self
In 1965, during eminent trumpeter Louis Armstrong’s visit to Prague, Jan Spata then a young promising documentary filmmaker, created the report 'Hall...
Louis Armstrong v Praze
1965
as Self

Louis Armstrong: Live in Australia
1964
as Chanteur, Trompettiste,
Berlin-Melodie
1963

Disneyland After Dark
1962
Taking a look at Disneyland following nightfall, including nighttime entertainment and appearances by many celebrities of the day.

Auf Wiedersehen
1961
as er selbst

Paris Blues
1961
as Wild Man Moore
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and ...

Jazz on a Summer's Day
1960
as Self
Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day ...

Kærlighedens melodi
1959
as Musician with Orchestra
Nina and Frederik were the big names in international showbiz in the 1950s with their rousing calypso rhythms. That's why "Kærlighedens Melodi" (The M...

La Paloma
1959
as Louis Armstrong

The Beat Generation
1959
as Louis Armstrong
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

The Five Pennies
1959
as Louis Armstrong
Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time...

The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed overseas. Over 50 top names from stage, screen and t...

The Edsel Show
1957
as Self
Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra host a program that's wall-to-wall music.

Satchmo the Great
1957
In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz a...

High Society
1956
as Self
With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really st...

Jazz Ball
1956
as Self (archive footage)
A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

The Glenn Miller Story
1954
as Louis Armstrong
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1...

Saluti e baci
1953
as himself
Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if ...

Glory Alley
1952
as Shadow Johnson
A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.

Here Comes the Groom
1951
as Louis Armstrong (uncredited)
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

The Strip
1951
as Himself
Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up ...

I'm in the Revue
1950
as Band Leader
Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained d...

A Song Is Born
1948
as Louis Armstrong
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome nightclub...

New Orleans
1947
as Himself
A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman,...

Pillow to Post
1945
as Orchestra Leader
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. S...

Atlantic City
1944
as Himself
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it ...

Jam Session
1944
as Himself
A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.

Show-Business at War
1943
as Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Cabin in the Sky
1943
as The Trumpeter
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for si...
Sleepy Time Down South
1942
as Self
Louis Armstrong and his Sleepy Time Down South.

Shine
1942
as Self
Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

Swingin' on Nothin'
1942
as Self
1941 Soundies musical short starring Louis Armstrong

Birth of the Blues
1941
as Self (archive footage)
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which...

Going Places
1938
as Gabe
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

Doctor Rhythm
1938
as Trumpet Player
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

Every Day's a Holiday
1937
as Louis Armstrong
When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief and smo...

Artists & Models
1937
as Self
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.

Pennies from Heaven
1936
as Henry
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a...

København, Kalundborg og -?
1934
Ludvig Brandstrup is a radio announcer and performs with great experience in front of the microphone. But the director is not exactly taking care of h...
Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen
1934
as Himself
After a decade performing in and recording with the top hot jazz bands of New Orleans, Chicago and New York, legendary trumpeter and vocalist Louis Ar...

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
1932
as Louis Armstrong
Betty Boop and friends meet Louis Armstrong on a jungle safari.

A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
1932
as Himself
A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds whe...

Ex-Flame
1930
as Louis Armstrong
A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from h...