Jerry Colonna

Known for ActingBorn 1904-09-17Died 1986-11-21Boston, Massachusetts, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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).Read more

Movies & web series

Port of Seven Seas

Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready

Comin' Round the Mountain

Bob Hope: Laughing With the Presidents

This Is Bob Hope...

Pinocchio

The Rosemary Clooney Show

True to the Army

Musical Movieland

Melody and Moonlight

Operation Wonderland

Dinah!

Alice in Wonderland

What's My Line?

Priorities on Parade

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 1

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Star Reporter

Road to Rio

The Monkees

Garden of the Moon

Road to Utopia

Naughty But Nice

Valley of the Giants

Casey at the Bat

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

Little Miss Broadway

Road to Singapore

Atlantic City

Joys

It's in the Bag!

Sis Hopkins

The Brave Engineer

Star Spangled Rhythm

Music Land

Kentucky Jubilee

Ice Capades Revue

The Road to Hong Kong

Swingtime in the Movies

Rosalie

Ice-Capades

Make Mine Music

Sweepstakes Winner

Andy Hardy Comes Home

You're the One

Meet Me in Las Vegas

Stars on Horseback

Climax!