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
Direction Melvin Frank · Norman Panama
Cast Danny Kaye · Glynis Johns · Angela Lansbury · Basil Rathbone
6.5
501 votes
6.5
501 votes
A Song is Born
1948 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Steve Cochran · Hugh Herbert
6.5
717 votes
6.5
717 votes
The Kid from Brooklyn
1946 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Norman Z. McLeod
Cast Danny Kaye · Virginia Mayo · Vera-Ellen · Steve Cochran
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
Direction Frank Tashlin
Cast Danny Kaye · Telly Savalas · Martha Hyer · Cara Williams
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
Direction Greg Garrison
Cast Lucille Ball · Danny Kaye
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