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Known for:	White Christmas, The Court Jester, Hans Christian Andersen
Birth name:	David Daniel Kaminski
Birthday:	18 January 1913, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height:	5' 11" (1.80 m)

One of the original owners of the Seattle Mariners professional baseball team. While appearing in the musical 'Two By Two," he broke his leg and played the role of Noah in a wheelchair since he did not use understudies. Interred at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York, USA. Toured Australia in the mid 1950s as Cinderella's friend Buttons in a pantomime version of Cinderella. Died of hepatitis and internal bleeding, the result of a transfusion of contaminated blood during bypass heart surgery four years earlier. Star of CBS Radio's "The Danny Kaye Show" (1945-1946). Was the first choice of producers to star in the Broadway musical "The Music Man." Was named as "King of Brooklyn" at the Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival in 1986 According to daughter Dena Kaye, for the rest of his life, whenever someone would recognize him in public, they would run up to him and recite the "pellet with the poison..." speech from The Court Jester. In 1953, received a Special Tony Award for heading a variety bill at the Palace Theater. He had a passion for Chinese cooking and built a kitchen in his house. For years, he invited people (some of them great celebrities like Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Cary Grant, John Denver, and Itzhak Perlman) and he would show them what his cooking genius was about. Qualified guests, like French chef Paul Bocuse, said they were really amazed by Kaye's cooking ability. He was Bob Hope's favorite comedian. He was an excellent pilot. His father, Jacob Kaminski; his mother, Clar; and his two older brothers, Mack and Larry, emigrated from Ukraine to the United States in 1910. Jacob had to work two years before he could pay off those steamer tickets. Three years after this journey, their third and last child was born, and the only one born in America: David Daniel, or as his parents called him: Duvidelleh. Served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. Herbert Bonis was his manager for 35 years. Father of Dena Kaye.

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