Laurence Harvey

During the 1950s and 1960s, he starred in several major films, including Butterfield 8, The Alamo, Darling and The Manchurian Candidate. Danny Kaye is interred in the Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York. His first major role was in Room at the Top, for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination. He received two Academy awards, an honorary award in 1955 and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1982. He enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and from there moved to stage and film stardom. He also starred in "The Paladin of the Lost Hour", an episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone. He grew up in Johannesburg, moving to London in 1946, at age 16. Kaye made his film debut in a very rare short comedy called Money On Your Life..

Born Laruschka Mischa Skikne in Joniskis, Lithuania, he immigrated to South Africa at the age of 5. Kaye starred in two biopics, Hans Christian Andersen about the Danish story-teller, and The Five Pennies (1959), about jazz pioneer Red Nichols. Laurence Harvey (October 1, 1928 - November 25, 1973) was a Lithuanian-born actor. Joan Plowright, widow of the actor Laurence Olivier, claimed that Olivier had a long homosexual relationship with Kaye while Olivier was still married to his second wife, Vivien Leigh. Starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940's. Before he died in 1987 he also showed he could conduct an orchestra during a comical, but technically sound series of concerts organised for Unicef fundraising.

He showed quite a different and serious side as Ambassador for UNICEF, and in one of his few dramatic roles in the memorable TV-movie Skokie, in which he played a Holocaust survivor. In many of his movies as well as on stage he proved to be an able actor, singer, dancer and comedian, often having his comedic talents showcased by special material written by his wife, Sylvia Fine Kaye. He starred in many films such as Hans Christian Andersen (1942), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), White Christmas (1954), Knock on Wood (1954), and The Court Jester (1956). In 1941 he appeared in the Broadway show, "Lady in the Dark" and performed the famous number "Tchaikovsky," in which he sung the names of a whole string of Russian composers at breakneck speed seemingly without taking a breath.

Born in Brooklyn as red-haired David Daniel Kaminski, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. Danny Kaye (January 18, 1911–March 3, 1987) was an American actor and comedian.