Stubby Kaye

Acting

Stubby Kaye

Born 1918-11-11 · Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York, USA

Bernard Shalom Kotzin (November 11, 1918 – December 14, 1997), known professionally as Stubby Kaye, was an American actor, comedian, vaudevillian, and singer, known for his appearances on Broadway and in film musicals. Kaye originated the roles of Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls and Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner, introducing two show-stopping numbers of the era: "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" and "Jubilation T. Cornpone". He reprised these roles in the movie versions of the shows. His other well-known roles include Herman in Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity, Sam the Shade in Cat Ballou, and Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stubby Kaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Sex and the Single Girl poster
6.6

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.

Sex and the Single Girl

1964

Who Framed Roger Rabbit poster
7.5

Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

1988

Cat Ballou poster
6.4

A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.

Cat Ballou

1965

Guys and Dolls poster
6.6

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a Salvation Army missionary to Havana, and unexpectedly they fall for each other. And the bet has a hidden motive ... classic song and dance ensues!

Guys and Dolls

1955

Waking Sleeping Beauty poster
7.2

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.

Waking Sleeping Beauty

2009

The Way West poster
6.1

In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who have joined his wagon train. He clashes with one of the new settlers, Lije Evans, who doesn't quite appreciate Tadlock's ways. Along the way, the families must face death and heartbreak and a sampling of frontier justice when one of them accidentally kills a young Indian boy.

The Way West

1967

Sweet Charity poster
6.9

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.

Sweet Charity

1969

Sixpack Annie poster
5.4

A buxom, beer-guzzling and naive country gal travels from her small town to Miami to find a 'sugar daddy' to save the family restaurant.

Sixpack Annie

1975

You Can't Run Away from It poster
5.1

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

You Can't Run Away from It

1956

40 Pounds of Trouble poster
5.5

Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.

40 Pounds of Trouble

1962

Li'l Abner poster
6.2

A comedy musical based on the comic strip charcters created by Al Capp. When residents of Dogpatch, USA are notified by the government that they must evacuate because of atomic bomb testing, they try to persuade the government that their town is worth saving. Meanwhile, Earthquake McGoon wants to marry Daisy Mae; Daisy Mae wants to marry Li'l Abner, and Li'l Abner just wants to go fishing.

Li'l Abner

1959

Timber Tramps poster
9.0

A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.

Timber Tramps

1975

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen poster
6.2

The Doctor and Mel go for a holiday trip to Shangri-La aboard a Nostalgia Tours bus, only to get dragged into the battle against genocide of their fellow passenger Delta, a Chimeron Queen fleeing from the Bannermen who wish to make her species extinct.

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

1987

The Monitors poster
4.5

Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.

The Monitors

1969

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? poster
4.8

Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a seashore in front of his two toddlers and aged mother. Merkin's promiscuous relationships with women are explored, particularly Polyester Poontang and the adolescent Mercy Humppe. Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satan-like procurer, Goodtime Eddie Filth, and an angelic 'Presence' who interrupts Merkin's biography with cryptic Borscht Belt-level jokes to denote births and deaths in Merkin's life. Newley periodically steps out of character to complain about his 'Merkin' role with an unseen director, two screenwriters, the film's producers and a trio of blasé movie critics who are turned off by the story's eroticism and lack of plot.

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

1969

Pinocchio poster
8.0

Pinocchio is a 1957 TV musical broadcast shown live on NBC, directed and choreographed by Hanya Holm. This version features songs by Alec Wilder.

Pinocchio

1957

Cool It, Carol! poster
5.6

A naive couple leave their small town for success in London's adult entertainment culture.

Cool It, Carol!

1970

The Cool Mikado poster
9.0

In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza fiancé who kidnaps him.

The Cool Mikado

1963

Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood poster
8.0

In this sequel to 1979's "Goldie and the Boxer," the ingratiating twosome, heavyweight champ and his 10-year-old manager, flee to California when a vengeful promoter who lost a bundle on the title fight wants retribution.

Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood

1981

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County poster
6.8

A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

1970

Taxi poster
6.8

A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.

Taxi

1953

No artwork available
NR

Musical adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story broadcast as a live television special on NBC.

Hansel and Gretel

1958