Jerry Colonna
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1904-09-17 (82 years old)
Deathday
1986-11-21
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also known As
Gerardo Luigi Colonna
Jerry Colonna
Biography
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 ...
Acting
1946
as Narrator (segment "Casey at the Bat") (voice)
1951
as March Hare (voice)
1938
as Singer-Freddie Rich Orchestra
1950
as Narrator
1988
as Self (archive footage)
1946
as Narrator
1941
as Professor
1944
as The Professor
1952
as The Waste-away (voice)
1977
1951
as Jerry Harris
1937
as Joseph
1938
as The Texas Tornado
1938
as Band Member
1941
as Colonna
1942
as Jerry Colonna
1938
as Musician
1939
as Allie Gray
1940
as Achilles Bombanassa
1945
as Dr. Greengrass
2002
as Self (archive footage)
1938
as Arab Rug Dealer
1944
as The Texas Tornado
1938
as Saloon Singer
1942
as Theophilus J. Twitchell
1940
as Abner Kellogg
1956
as Jerry Colonna
1958
as Doc
1957
as Ringmaster
1941
as Himself
1996
as Self (archive footage)
1976
as Self
1942
as Pvt. 'Pinky' Fothergill
1942
as Jeep Jackson
2017
as Self (archive footage)
1940
as Argyle Phifft
1939
as Nick, the Chef
1962
as Man Looking For a Match (uncredited)
1946
as Man on boat to Alaska (uncredited)
1955
as Narrator (archive footage)
1951
as Self
1944
as Self
1941
as Dr. Colonna
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