Acting credits
28
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Sarah Vaughan
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
0.4
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Movies: 16Series: 12
TMDB ID: 126901
IMDb ID: nm0891098
Known for: Acting
Born: March 27, 1924
Died: April 3, 1990
Age: 66
Place of birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1948 - 2025
Years active: 78
Average TMDB rating: 6.8
Wikidata: Q229513
Biography
She began studying music when she was seven, taking eight years of piano lessons and two years of organ. As a child she sang in the choir at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Newark and played piano and organ in high school productions at Arts High School. She entered an amateur contest at the Apollo Theater in New York's Harlem area, singing "Body and Soul", and won the $10 prize and a week's engagement at the Apollo. From 1944 to 1945, she sang with Billy Eckstine and in 1947 she married her manager, trumpeter George Treadwell. Her later husbands included pro football player Clyde Atkins and trumpeter Waymon Reed. She received many awards, including an Emmy in 1981 for a tribute to George Gershwin and a Grammy in 1983.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Sarah Vaughan.
9.0
Quincy Jones | Music Man
as Self (archive footage)
2025 Movie
9.0
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Movie
0.5
Duke Ellington & Sarah Vaughan Live At The Berlin Philharmonic Hall 1989
as Self
2014 Movie
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
as Self (archive footage)
2013 Movie
7.0
The Music According to Tom Jobim
as Self (archive footage)
2012 Movie
7.0
…Sings Musicals
as Self (archive footage)
2012 Movie
8.1
Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was
as Self (archive footage)
2009 Movie
Jazz Icons: Sarah Vaughan: Live in '58 & '64
as Self
2007 Movie
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.2
as Self (archive footage)
2006 Movie
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
2005 Movie
Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One
1991 Movie
10.0
Count Basie At Carnegie Hall
as Self
1981 Movie
6.4
Murder, Inc.
as Singer
1960 Movie
8.0
Basin Street Revue
1956 Movie
6.0
Rhythm and Blues Revue
as Self
1955 Movie
Disc Jockey
as Herself
1951 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Sarah Vaughan.
6.2
Jake and the Fatman
1 eps
1987 Series
8.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self • 1 eps
1972 Series
5.8
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
as Self • 1 eps
1969 Series
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest • 3 eps
1968 Series
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self • 6 eps
1962 Series
6.2
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self • 1 eps
1962 Series
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self • 5 eps
1961 Series
8.4
American Bandstand
as Self • 1 eps
1957 Series
5.6
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Singer • 1 eps
1956 Series
7.1
The Oscars
as Self • 1 eps
1953 Series
6.8
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self • 1 eps
1950 Series
6.8
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self • 6 eps
1948 Series