TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Danny Kaye.

Danny Kaye
Birthdate: January 18, 1913
Death date: March 3, 1987

Danny Kaye

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
No Reviews
4
1940s
2.2904
7
total ranking of 2.2904
1950s
2.7363
12
total ranking of 2.7363
1960s
0.7648
3
total ranking of 0.7648
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Danny Kaye is ranked overall as 2.3093 of of 4 stars2.3093

Danny Kaye Movie Rankings

1
Danny Kaye starring in Court Jester
Danny Kaye scores a combined 3.5086 out of 4 stars for Court Jester3.5086
While the infant King of England is awaiting his rightful spot to the throne, the regent, Roderick (Cecil Parker) defies royal law and crowns himself King. To regain the throne the baby king must obtain the key to a secret tunnel that allows them passage to the castle. ...more about Court Jester
Actor Awards
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
2
Danny Kaye starring in White Christmas
Danny Kaye scores a combined 3.2812 out of 4 stars for White Christmas3.2812
This classic Christmas movie takes place at the end of WW II where two performing Officers, Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye), return from war and team up with to performing sisters Betty Haynes (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen). ...more about White Christmas
3
Danny Kaye starring in Kid from Brooklyn
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.7464 out of 4 stars for Kid from Brooklyn2.7464
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. ...more about Kid from Brooklyn
  • Not Available on DVD
4
Five Pennies, The (1959)
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.5445 out of 4 stars for Five Pennies2.5445
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 band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. ...more about Five Pennies
5
Up in Arms (1944)
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.4474 out of 4 stars for Up in Arms2.4474
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 love with his best friend Joe. ...more about Up in Arms
  • Not Available on DVD
6
Knock on Wood (1954)
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.3821 out of 4 stars for Knock on Wood2.3821
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 jealous. ...more about Knock on Wood
  • Not Available on DVD
7
Wonder Man (1945)
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.3035 out of 4 stars for Wonder Man2.3035
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 the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. ...more about Wonder Man
  • Not Available on DVD
8
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.2885 out of 4 stars for Hans Christian Andersen2.2885
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". ...more about Hans Christian Andersen
Actor Awards
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
9
Inspector General, The (1949)
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.2396 out of 4 stars for Inspector General2.2396
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 general whom they think is traveling in disguise. ...more about Inspector General
10
Madwoman of Chaillot, The (1969)
Danny Kaye scores a combined 2.0682 out of 4 stars for Madwoman of Chaillot2.0682
  • Not Available on DVD
11
Song Is Born, A (1948)
Danny Kaye scores a combined 1.5159 out of 4 stars for Song Is Born1.5159
Gangster's moll Honey Swanson goes into hiding when her boyfriend is under investigation by the police. ...more about Song Is Born
  • Not Available on DVD
12
Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The (1947)
Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.9132 out of 4 stars for Secret Life of Walter Mitty0.9132
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming comic book writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine himself as a hero experiencing great adventures. His dream becomes true when he accidently meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. ...more about Secret Life of Walter Mitty
  • Not Available on DVD
13
On the Riviera (1951)
Danny Kaye scores a combined 0.8114 out of 4 stars for On the Riviera0.8114
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 (Gene Tierney) is fooled by it. ...more about On the Riviera
Actor Awards
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
  • Not Available on DVD
14
Assignment Children (1954)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
15
Cupid Takes a Holiday (1938)
No Reviews Available
Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich (Danny Kaye) visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride. ...more about Cupid Takes a Holiday
  • Not Available on DVD
16
Dime a Dance (1937)
No Reviews Available
June Allyson is a cashier in a dance hall and her friend Imogene Coca wants to get a job there as a dance hostess. June advises her she needs to first make herself attractive to men,and gives her a book on the subject. ...more about Dime a Dance
  • Not Available on DVD
17
Getting an Eyeful (1938)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
18
Man from the Diner's Club, The (1963)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
19
Me and the Colonel (1958)
No Reviews Available
Danny Kaye, a Jewish refugee flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic anti-semitic Polish officer (Curd Jurgens) trying to get papers to England. ...more about Me and the Colonel
Actor Awards
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical
  • Not Available on DVD
20
Merry Andrew (1958)
No Reviews Available
Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat (Pier Angeli). ...more about Merry Andrew
  • Not Available on DVD
21
Money On Your Life (1938)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
22
On the Double (1961)
No Reviews Available
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 allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. ...more about On the Double
  • Not Available on DVD
23
Screen Snapshots Series 27, No. 3: Out of This World Series (1947)
No Reviews Available
Hollywood was always a big sports town, until it actually got some professional sports franchises, and many of the actors around town--- ex-jocks,would-be-jocks or just sports fans---belonged to and played on summer amatuer baseball or softball teams for ...more about Screen Snapshots Series 27
  • Not Available on DVD
24
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty (1955)
No Reviews Available
Ralph Staub attends a Friars Club dinner in Hollywood, where Bob Hope, George Burns, Jack Benny and other stars are in attendance, and he later visits Rhonda Fleming at the studio and she talks of her plans as a member of a singing group with (not shown) ...more about Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty
  • Not Available on DVD
25
Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954)
No Reviews Available
Patrica Medina is Ralph Staub's guest in this Screen Snapshots and he takes her to Don the Beachcomber's Hollywood club where they see some of Hollywood's married couples (John Huston and Evelyn Keyes, Kay Kyser and Georgia Carroll, Phil Harris and Alice ...more about Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood
  • Not Available on DVD
26
Screen Snapshots: Playtime in Hollywood (1956)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD