Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye is interred in the Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York. Daniel Day-Lewis attended the same theatre school, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with fellow British thespian Miranda Richardson. He received two Academy awards, an honorary award in 1955 and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1982. Day-Lewis has also a son from a former relationship with French actress Isabelle Adjani. He also starred in "The Paladin of the Lost Hour", an episode of the 1980s revival of The Twilight Zone. They live in Ireland and have two sons. Kaye made his film debut in a very rare short comedy called Money On Your Life.. Daniel Day-Lewis is married to actress and director Rebecca Miller, daughter of Arthur Miller (author of The Crucible).

Kaye starred in two biopics, Hans Christian Andersen about the Danish story-teller, and The Five Pennies (1959), about jazz pioneer Red Nichols. Other film roles have included The Age of Innocence co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer, In the Name of the Father, The Crucible with Winona Ryder, Last of the Mohicans, and Gangs of New York with Leonardo DiCaprio. 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. He returned to the stage to work again with Richard Eyre, as Hamlet at the National Theater, but was forced to leave the production close to the end of its run suffering from exhaustion, and has not appeared on stage since. Starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940's. His performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot (1989) won him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for best actor. 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. In 1987 he assumed leading man status in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being co-starring Juliette Binoche.

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. The latter two films opened in New York City on the same day. 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. This role was followed by a completely different character in A Room with a View in 1986, where he played a snobbish, clumsy upper-class-dandy. 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 1984 he had a supporting role in The Bounty, but came to public notice as half of a gay biracial couple in My Beautiful Laundrette. 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. He then went back to the stage in both Bristol and London, and did not return to movies until appearing in a bit part in Gandhi in 1982.

Born in Brooklyn as red-haired David Daniel Kaminski, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He was trained on the stage, in Bristol, but he made his film debut in Sunday Bloody Sunday in 1971. Danny Kaye (January 18, 1911–March 3, 1987) was an American actor and comedian. Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the gifted actors of his generation, known for his total devotion to the role he plays. His mother is Jill Balcon, actress daughter of Sir Michael Balcon, head of Ealing Studios. Although born in London he holds an Irish passport as his father was the Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of England.

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born April 29, 1957) is a British actor. 1990 - Won - Best Actor in a Leading Role - My Left Foot. 1994 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - In the Name of the Father. 2002 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - Gangs of New York.