Jimmy Durante
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 9, 1893
- Died
- January 29, 1980 (aged 86)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Comedian, composer, actor, singer and songwriter ("Inka Dinka Doo") Jimmy Durante was educated in New York public schools. He began his career as a Coney Island pianist, and organized a five-piece band in 1916. He opened the Club Durant with Eddie Jackson and Lou Clayton, with whom he later formed a comedy trio for vaudeville and on television. He appeared in the Broadway musicals "Show Girl", "The New Yorkers", "Strike Me Pink", "Jumbo", "Red Hot and Blue", and "Stars in Your Eyes". By 1936, he had appeared at the Palladium in London. Later he had his own radio and television shows, and was a featured headliner in night clubs. Biographer Gene Fowler wrote his biography, "Schnozzola". Joining ASCAP in 1941, he collaborated musically with Jackie Barnett and Ben Ryan, and his other popular song compositions include "I'm Jimmy That Well-Dressed Man", "I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway", "I Ups to Him and He Ups to Me", "Daddy Your Mamma Is Lonesome For You", "Umbriago", "Any State In the Forty-Eight", "Chidabee Chidabee Chidabee", and "I'm Jimmy's Girl".
Known For
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Filmography
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Movie · as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Movie · as Self
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Movie · as Himself
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Movie · as (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Movie · as Self (Archival Footage)
Vaudeville
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie · as (archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie · as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie · as (archive footage)
It's Showtime
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Movie · as (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
TV · 1 ep
The Pearl Bailey Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Don Knotts Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Frosty the Snowman
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
TV · as Self · 3 eps
The Movie Orgy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Mothers-in-Law
TV · as Jimmy Durante · 1 ep
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie · as Humpty Dumpty
Murder at N.B.C.
Movie
The Hollywood Palace
TV · as Self · 1 ep
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie · as Smiler Grogan
The Jerry Lewis Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Movie · as Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Movie · as Self - Host
The Lucy Show
TV · as Jimmy Durante · 1 ep
The Last Judgment
Movie · as The man with the large nose
Pepe
Movie · as Jimmy Durante
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Movie · as Self
Sunday Showcase
Movie
The All-Star Christmas Show
Movie · as Self
Beau James
Movie · as Jimmy Durante
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Steve Allen Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Summer Playhouse
TV · 1 ep
The Jimmy Durante Show
TV · as Self - Host · 48 eps
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Great Rupert
Movie · as Mr. Louie Amendola
The Milkman
Movie · as Breezy Albright
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self, Self - Cameo · 14 eps
Four Star Revue
TV · as Host · 1 ep
What's My Line?
TV · as Self - Mystery Guest · 2 eps
The Bob Hope Show
TV · as Self, Self (uncredited) · 2 eps
On an Island with You
Movie · as Buckley
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 5 eps
This Time for Keeps
Movie · as Ferdi Farro
It Happened in Brooklyn
Movie · as Nick Lombardi
Two Sisters from Boston
Movie · as 'Spike'
Two Girls and a Sailor
Movie · as Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
Music for Millions
Movie · as Andrews
Breakdowns of 1942
Movie · as Self
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Movie · as Banjo
You're in the Army Now
Movie · as Homer "Jeeper" Smith
Melody Ranch
Movie · as Cornelius J. Courtney
Little Miss Broadway
Movie · as Jimmy Clayton
Start Cheering
Movie · as Willie Gumbatz
Sally, Irene and Mary
Movie · as Jefferson Twitchel
Land Without Music
Movie · as Jonah J. Whistler
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Movie · as Self
Carnival
Movie · as Fingers
Palooka
Movie · as Knobby Walsh
George White's Scandals
Movie · as Happy McGillicuddy
Strictly Dynamite
Movie · as Moxie
Hollywood Party
Movie · as Jimmy Durante
Student Tour
Movie · as Hank Merman
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Movie · as Self
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Movie · as Self
What! No Beer?
Movie · as Jimmy Potts
Broadway to Hollywood
Movie · as Jimmy
Meet the Baron
Movie · as Joe McGoo
Give a Man a Job
Movie
Hell Below
Movie · as Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
Movie · as Self
Blondie of the Follies
Movie · as Jimmy
Speak Easily
Movie · as James
The Passionate Plumber
Movie · as Julius J. McCracken
The Wet Parade
Movie · as Abe Shilling
The Phantom President
Movie · as Curly
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Movie · as Self
Hollywood on Parade
Movie · as Self
Plumber in Love
Movie · as Tony
The Cuban Love Song
Movie · as O.O. Jones
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Movie · as Schnozzle
The Christmas Party
Movie · as Santa Claus (uncredited)
Roadhouse Nights
Movie · as Daffy (as Durante)
The March of Time
Movie · as Self