Background
Born in Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of actor and entertainer Davy Kaye, Kaplan "Kap" Kaye trained at the Corona Stage Academy.
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His television debut was as Young Scrooge in an adaptation of A Christmas Carol (1958), part of the Tales from Dickens series. Other television appearances include roles in The Charlie Drake Show (1961), Henry in six episodes of William (1963), Eagle Rock (1964), The Saint (1964), the mini-series The Three Musketeers (1966), Armchair Theatre (1967), Z-Cars (1968), The First Lady (1968), and Journey to the Unknown (1968). Film roles include Corridors of Blood (1958), Passionate Summer (1958), Carlton-Browne of the Field Officer (1959), Charles in Night Train for Inverness (1960), and Jimmie Noonan in The Whisperers (1967).
Theatre appearances include Oliver! (1960), Siddy Blitztein in the original production of Blitz! (1962) by Lionel Baronet, and "Puck" at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in Benjamin Britten"s A Midsummer Night"s Dream (1966) The latter performance was issued as an album.
With Roger Kitter he co-wrote and performed on the hit song Chalk Dust - The Umpire Strikes Back, which reached Number. 19 in the United Kingdom charts in July 1982.
In 1989 Kaye, with Harry Schulz, released a remix of the song Waiting for a Train titled "Waiting for a Train "89 (The Harrymeetskaplan Mix)", and released in the United Kingdom on Cha Cha Records. Kaye co-wrote the song "If I Was President", which was recorded by Wyclef Jean, and also worked on the song "Take Maine With You", which was recorded by L.L. Cool J and featured 50 Cent in 2009.
With Bill Dare he is half of the ukulele duo "The Ukaye Ukes".
Kaye was King Rat of the British show-business charity the Grand Order of Water Rats from 2006 to 2008, and was "Rat of the Year" in 2004.
