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Film & TV
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Known for
- Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer — Self (archive footage)2006
- Slim Gaillard's Civilisation — Self1989
- Absolute Beginners — Party Singer1986
- Sky Bandits — Organ Player1986
- Love's Savage Fury — Moss1979
- Roots: The Next Generations — Sam Wesley1979
- What's Happening!! — Al1976
- Willie Dynamite — Bum Watching Willie's Car (uncredited)1974
- The Flip Wilson Show — Self1970
- Marcus Welby, M.D. — Odie Langston1969
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Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 4, 1911 or 1916 – February 26, 1991) was an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his scat singing and word play. Despite record company publicity accounts that Gaillard was born in Santa Clara, Cuba of a Greek father and an Afro-Cuban mother, he was born in Pensacola, Florida to a german immigrant named Theopolous Rothschild and an African-American woman named Liza Gaillard. He grew up in Detroit and moved to New York City in the 193
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Place of death
- London
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Savoy Records
- Image
- Slim Gaillard.jpg
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- Slim Gaillard
- date of birth
- 1911-01-09
- date of death
- 1991-02-26
- partner in business or sport
- Slam Stewart
- start of work period
- 1989-00-00
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