1893-02-09 New York City, New York, USA
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".
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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Self - Comedian (archive footage) | 2019-02-27 |
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JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala | Self | 2017-05-23 |
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And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
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Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter | Himself | 2011-04-09 |
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel | (archive footage) | 2004-02-03 |
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-03-21 |
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The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1 | Self (archive footage) | 2001-02-22 |
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Hollywood Musicals of the 40's | Self (archive footage) | 2000-09-01 |
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Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults | Self (Archival Footage) | 1997-11-18 |
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That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
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Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC | Self (archive footage) | 1988-05-16 |
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Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 |
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Showbiz Goes to War | (archive footage) | 1982-12-31 |
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It's Showtime | Self (archive footage) | 1976-03-31 |
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That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
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That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) | 1974-06-21 |
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Frosty the Snowman | Narrator (voice) | 1969-12-07 |
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The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | 1968-01-01 |
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Alice Through the Looking Glass | Humpty Dumpty | 1966-11-06 |
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Murder at N.B.C. | 1966-10-19 | |
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Smiler Grogan | 1963-11-07 |
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The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers | Self - Host | 1962-01-06 |
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Billy Rose's Jumbo | Anthony ('Pop') Wonder | 1962-12-06 |
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Il giudizio universale | The man with the large nose | 1961-10-26 |
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Pepe | Jimmy Durante | 1960-12-21 |
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The Frank Sinatra Timex Show | Self | 1959-10-19 |
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Beau James | Jimmy Durante | 1957-06-07 |
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The Milkman | Breezy Albright | 1950-10-17 |
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The Great Rupert | Mr. Louie Amendola | 1950-03-01 |
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On an Island with You | Buckley | 1948-05-03 |
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It Happened in Brooklyn | Nick Lombardi | 1947-03-13 |
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This Time for Keeps | Ferdi Farro | 1947-10-17 |
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Two Sisters from Boston | 'Spike' | 1946-06-06 |
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Music for Millions | Andrews | 1944-12-18 |
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Two Girls and a Sailor | Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp | 1944-06-14 |
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Breakdowns of 1942 | Self | 1942-12-31 |
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You're in the Army Now | Homer "Jeeper" Smith | 1941-12-25 |
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The Man Who Came to Dinner | Banjo | 1941-12-24 |
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Melody Ranch | Cornelius J. Courtney | 1940-09-15 |
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Sally, Irene and Mary | Jefferson Twitchel | 1938-03-04 |
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Little Miss Broadway | Jimmy Clayton | 1938-07-29 |
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Start Cheering | Willie Gumbatz | 1938-03-03 |
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) | Self | 1936-09-11 |
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Land Without Music | Jonah J. Whistler | 1936-10-07 |
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Carnival | Fingers | 1935-02-15 |
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Hollywood Party | Jimmy Durante | 1934-05-24 |
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 | Self | 1934-04-28 |
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Student Tour | Hank Merman | 1934-10-05 |
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Palooka | Knobby Walsh | 1934-01-26 |
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George White's Scandals | Happy McGillicuddy | 1934-03-15 |
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Strictly Dynamite | Moxie | 1934-05-11 |
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Meet the Baron | Joe McGoo | 1933-10-20 |
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Give a Man a Job | 1933-01-31 | |
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What! No Beer? | Jimmy Potts | 1933-02-10 |
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Broadway to Hollywood | Jimmy | 1933-09-15 |
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Prohibition Newsreel No. 7 | Self | 1933-01-01 |
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Hell Below | Ptomaine' - Ships Cook | 1933-06-08 |
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The Passionate Plumber | Julius J. McCracken | 1932-02-06 |
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Speak Easily | James | 1932-08-13 |
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The Phantom President | Curly | 1932-09-23 |
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Hollywood on Parade | Self | 1932-06-05 |
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Blondie of the Follies | Jimmy | 1932-09-01 |
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 | Self | 1932-10-20 |
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The Wet Parade | Abe Shilling | 1932-03-26 |
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The Christmas Party | Santa Claus (uncredited) | 1931-12-17 |
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New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford | Schnozzle | 1931-10-03 |
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The Cuban Love Song | O.O. Jones | 1931-11-18 |
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Roadhouse Nights | Daffy (as Durante) | 1930-02-15 |
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The March of Time | Self | 1930-09-01 |
