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name: "Carol Kaye"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/carol-kaye"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "24 March 1935"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T04:51:50.792785+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Carol Kaye

Composer. Born 24 March 1935 in Everett, Washington, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 24 March 1935, Everett, Washington, United States
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Kaye, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433273, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443269/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1490040

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Guess Who's Coming to Dinner*](https://film.one/film/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner.md) (70)

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## Biography

Carol Kaye is an American session musician and occasional actress. Born in Everett, Washington, she began playing guitar as a teenager and worked on the Los Angeles jazz circuit before entering studio work in 1957. She switched to electric bass in 1963 and became one of the most recorded bassists of the era, contributing to thousands of sessions.

Kaye played on numerous film and television soundtracks, including *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* (1967). She was a member of the informal group of Los Angeles studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew and appeared as herself in the 2008 documentary *The Wrecking Crew*. She has also taken minor acting roles, such as in *The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?* (1964).

Kaye has written instructional books on bass and guitar and continues to be recognised for her session contributions.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, historylink.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* (1967), Fi1m 70, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Carol Kaye: Pioneer and Session Legend* (2011), Actor
- *Guess Who's Coming to Dinner* (1967), Music — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner.md)

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