Jerry Colonna
Actor/Actriz
42
Películas
5
Series
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Gerardo Luigi "Jerry" Colonna (September 17, 1904 – November 22, 1986) was an American musician, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter and trombonist best remembered as the zaniest of Bob Hope's sidekicks in Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s.
With his pop-eyed facial expressions and walrus-sized handlebar moustache, Colonna was known for singing loudly "in a comic caterwaul," according to Raised on Radio author Gerald Nachman, and for his catchphrase, "Who's Yehudi?", uttered after many an old joke, although it usually had nothing to do with the joke. The line was believed to be named for violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin, and the search for Yehudi became a running gag on the Hope show.
Colonna featured in three of the popular Hope-Crosby Road films: Road to Singapore (1940) as Achilles Bombassa, Road to Rio (1947) as a Cavalry captain and The Road to Hong Kong (1962) in a cameo role. He can also be seen in the Fred Allen vehicle, It's in the Bag! (1945), as psychiatrist Dr. Greenglass, and he made a brief appearance with Hope in the "Wife, Husband and Wolf" sketch in Star Spangled Rhythm. In 1956 he performed the featured song "My Lucky Charm" in the film Meet Me in Las Vegas, starring Dan Dailey and Cyd Charisse.
He provided the voice of the March Hare in the Walt Disney animated film version of Alice in Wonderland (1951) (another radio legend, Ed Wynn, voiced the Mad Hatter) and also lent his zany narration style to several Disney shorts, including Casey at the Bat (1946) and The Brave Engineer (1950).
Como Actor/Actriz
Climax!
Stan
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Alicia en el país de las maravillas
March Hare (voice)
What's My Line?
Self
Dinah!
Self
The Monkees
Dr. Mann
Música maestro
Narrator (segment "Casey at the Bat") (voice)
Rosalie
Joseph
Ruta de Hong Kong
Man Looking For a Match (uncredited)
Star Spangled Rhythm
Jerry Colonna
Road to Utopia
Man on boat to Alaska (uncredited)
Joys
Self
Valley of the Giants
Saloon Singer
Casey at the Bat
Narrator
This Is Bob Hope...
Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage)
Kentucky Jubilee
Jerry Harris
Road to Singapore
Achilles Bombanassa
Naughty But Nice
Allie Gray
Meet Me in Las Vegas
Jerry Colonna
La pequeña Miss Broadway
Band Member
Garden of the Moon
Musician
Atlantic City
The Professor
Port of Seven Seas
Arab Rug Dealer
Andy Hardy Comes Home
Doc
Music Land
Narrator (archive footage)
Pinocchio
Ringmaster
The Brave Engineer
Narrator
Ice-Capades
Colonna
You're the One
Dr. Colonna