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Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante

Actor · Born 1893-02-09 · New York City, New York, USA

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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".

Movies & TV Shows

  1. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) — Smiler Grogan
  2. Frosty the Snowman (1969) — Narrator (voice)
  3. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941) — Banjo
  4. The Oscars (1953) — Self
  5. That's Entertainment! (1974) — (archive footage) (uncredited)
  6. The Lucy Show (1962) — Jimmy Durante
  7. Pepe (1960) — Jimmy Durante
  8. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) — (archive footage)
  9. That's Entertainment! III (1994) — (archive footage)
  10. The Last Judgment (1961) — The man with the large nose
  11. The Great Rupert (1950) — Mr. Louie Amendola
  12. What's My Line? (1950) — Self - Mystery Guest
  13. Speak Easily (1932) — James
  14. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
  15. Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) — Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
  16. It Happened in Brooklyn (1947) — Nick Lombardi
  17. The Movie Orgy (1968) — Self (archive footage)
  18. On an Island with You (1948) — Buckley
  19. Little Miss Broadway (1938) — Jimmy Clayton
  20. Hell Below (1933) — Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
  21. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour (1971)
  22. Hollywood Party (1934) — Jimmy Durante
  23. The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) — Self
  24. What! No Beer? (1933) — Jimmy Potts
  25. Blondie of the Follies (1932) — Jimmy
  26. Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) — Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
  27. The Passionate Plumber (1932) — Julius J. McCracken
  28. Palooka (1934) — Knobby Walsh
  29. Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2002) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  30. The Christmas Party (1931) — Santa Claus (uncredited)
  31. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) — Self (archive footage)
  32. The Cuban Love Song (1931) — O.O. Jones
  33. Start Cheering (1938) — Willie Gumbatz
  34. George White's Scandals (1934) — Happy McGillicuddy
  35. You're in the Army Now (1941) — Homer "Jeeper" Smith
  36. This Time for Keeps (1947) — Ferdi Farro
  37. Broadway to Hollywood (1933) — Jimmy
  38. The Wet Parade (1932) — Abe Shilling
  39. Meet the Baron (1933) — Joe McGoo
  40. The Phantom President (1932) — Curly