Hampton, Lionel Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Jazz Legends in Concert

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lelio Luttazzi - Il giovanotto matto

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Jazz Giants of the 20th Century

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Benny Goodman's Greatest Hits

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Detour Ahead: An Afternoon with Herb Ellis

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Solo Flight: The Genius of Charlie Christian

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself - Honoree
• Play in Full Screen Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Real Malcolm X

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself - Friend
• Play in Full Screen Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones

  1990, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The 10th Annual Black Achievement Awards

  1989, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
• Play in Full Screen Great Vibes! Lionel Hampton & Friends

  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts

  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen But Then She's Betty Carter

  1980, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen WWF Club

  1980, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lyonel Hampton Live at Belgrade

  1979, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

  1979, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen No Maps on My Taps

  1979, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Timex All Star Swing Festival

  1972, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen All Things Bright and Beautiful

  1968, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 13 Stars for Channel 13

  1968, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen America di notte

  1961, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Force of Impulse

  1961, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Swing Into Spring!

  1959, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Red Skelton Chevy Special

  1959, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mister Rock and Roll

  1957, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Basin Street Revue

  1956, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lionel Hampton and Herb Jeffries

  1956, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Benny Goodman Story

  1956, role: actor , character name: Lionel Hampton
• Play in Full Screen Rhythm and Blues Revue

  1955, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Musik, Musik und nur Musik

  1955, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Rock 'n' Roll Revue

  1955, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Glenn Miller Story

  1954, role: actor , character name: Band Member
• Play in Full Screen Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra

  1949, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Song Is Born

  1948, role: actor , character name: Lionel Hampton
• Play in Full Screen For Auld Lang Syne

  1938, role: actor , character name: Himself - vibraphone player with Benny Goodman Orchestra: Clip from 'Hollywood Hotel'
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood Hotel

  1937, role: actor , character name: Benny Goodman Vibraphonist
• Play in Full Screen Pennies from Heaven

  1936, role: actor , character name: Band Member
• Play in Full Screen Girl Without a Room

  1933, role: actor , character name: Nightclub Xylophone Musician

Famous quotes by Lionel Hampton:

"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."

"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."

"I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me."

"That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in sports, basketball, football, nothing."

"[Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's always jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes you put on her, she's the same old broad."

"I've always been crazy about playing."

"The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do."

"Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men."

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."

"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."

"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."

"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."

"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."

"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."

"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."

"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."

"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."

Lionel Hampton

Born: 1908-04-20

Died: 2002-08-31