Cast: Danny Kaye

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Danny Kaye. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1985 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · Paul Lynch · Peter Medak · Ryszard Bugajski

Cast William Atherton · Jenny Agutter · Martin Balsam · Jeffrey Tambor

Plot A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Court Jester

1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

6.5

501 votes

6.5

501 votes

A Song is Born

1948 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

6.5

717 votes

6.5

717 votes

The Kid from Brooklyn

1946 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

6.5

204 votes

6.5

204 votes

Wonder Man

1945 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Donald Woods

Plot Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in...

6.4

309 votes

6.4

309 votes

Merry Andrew

1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Michael Kidd

Cast Danny Kaye · Pier Angeli · Salvatore Baccaloni · Robert Coote

Plot Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher Andrew Larabee (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat Selena Gallini (Pier Angeli).

6.4

73 votes

6.4

73 votes

Me and the Colonel

1958 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Danny Kaye · Curd Jürgens · Nicole Maurey · Françoise Rosay

Plot During the invasion of France by Nazi Germany, a shy, intelligent Jewish refugee tries to flee from the Nazis with the aid of an anti-Semitic, autocratic, brave Polish Colonel who...

6.4

70 votes

6.4

70 votes

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1947 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Boris Karloff · Fay Bainter

Plot Walter Mitty, a daydreaming pulp-fiction writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes true when he accidentally meets...

6.3

787 votes

6.3

787 votes

Knock on Wood

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Frank · Norman Panama

Cast Danny Kaye · Mai Zetterling · Torin Thatcher · David Burns

Plot Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his doll Clarence becomes mean and...

6.2

94 votes

6.2

94 votes

The Five Pennies

1959 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Melville Shavelson

Cast Danny Kaye · Barbara Bel Geddes · Louis Armstrong · Harry Guardino

Plot Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's...

6.2

119 votes

6.2

119 votes

White Christmas

1954 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bing Crosby · Danny Kaye · Rosemary Clooney · Vera-Ellen

Plot After World War II, song and dance men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, form a successful partnership eventually becoming top Broadway producers. Bob agrees to take in a nightclub act...

6.2

699 votes

6.2

699 votes

Hans Christian Andersen

1952 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Danny Kaye · Farley Granger · Zizi Jeanmaire · Joseph Walsh

Plot A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of "The Little Mermaid".

6.0

397 votes

6.0

397 votes

On the Double

1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Melville Shavelson

Cast Danny Kaye · Dana Wynter · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Margaret Rutherford

Plot American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to...

6.0

75 votes

6.0

75 votes

The Man from the Diner's Club

1963 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

6.0

107 votes

6.0

107 votes

On the Riviera

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Danny Kaye · Gene Tierney · Corinne Calvet · Marcel Dalio

Plot Jack Martin (Danny Kaye), an American entertainer working cabarets on the French Riviera, does an impersonation of philandering industrialist Henri Duran (Kaye, again) so convincingly that even Duran's beautiful wife...

5.9

80 votes

5.9

80 votes

Up in Arms

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Danny Kaye · Dinah Shore · Dana Andrews · Constance Dowling

Plot Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in...

5.8

57 votes

5.8

57 votes

The Madwoman of Chaillot

1969 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Paul Henreid · Oskar Homolka · Yul Brynner

Plot Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final result falls short despite the talents of the celebrated thespians....

5.8

210 votes

5.8

210 votes

The Inspector General

1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Danny Kaye · Walter Slezak · Barbara Bates · Elsa Lanchester

Plot An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector...

5.7

371 votes

5.7

371 votes

It's a Great Feeling

1949 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Doris Day · Dennis Morgan · Jack Carson · Mazzone-Abbott Dancers

Plot A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to...

5.4

60 votes

5.4

60 votes

The Danny Kaye Show with Lucille Ball (TV)

1962 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated