Louis Armstrong (Actor)

Reviews of Louis Armstrong Movies

Looking for reviews of Louis Armstrong movies? Cinafilm has a total of 1,329 reviews across 23 movies.

Movies starring Louis Armstrong have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 64%.

Jazz on a Summer's Day - released in 1960 - is Louis Armstrong's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 23 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Louis Armstrong is When the Boys Meet the Girls - released in 1965 - with a score of 48% based on 2 reviews.

Actor 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 dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. He was also greatly skilled at scat singing, vocalizing using sounds and syllables instead of actual lyrics.

Renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet-playing, Armstrong's influence extends well beyond jazz music, and by the end of his career in the 1960s, he was widely regarded as a profound influence on popular music in general.

Armstrong was one of the first truly popular African-American entertainers to "cross over," whose skin-color was secondary to his amazing talent in an America that was severely racially divided. It allowed him socially acceptable access to the upper echelons of American society that were highly restricted for a person of color. While he rarely publicly politicized his race, often to the dismay of fellow African-Americans, he was privately a huge supporter of the Civil Rights movement in America.

Louis Armstrong has acted in films with Bing Crosby, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Jack Teagarden and James Stewart.

Louis Armstrong has worked with these film directors: Gene Kelly, Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawks and Frank Capra.