Jimmy Durante
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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
Credits
Vaudeville (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
as Smiler Grogan
Frosty the Snowman (1969)
as Narrator (voice)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as (archive footage)
Start Cheering (1938)
as Willie Gumbatz
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
Sunday Showcase (1959)
Actor
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2002)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10 (1934)
as Self
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
It's Showtime (1976)
as Self (archive footage)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
as Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
Hell Below (1933)
as Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
Blondie of the Follies (1932)
as Jimmy
The Wet Parade (1932)
as Abe Shilling
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
as Nick Lombardi
Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
as Jefferson Twitchel
Brasileiros em Hollywood (1970)
as Self (archive footage)
Pepe (1960)
as Jimmy Durante
Hollywood Party (1934)
as Jimmy Durante
On an Island with You (1948)
as Buckley
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
as Banjo
Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
as 'Spike'
Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
as Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
as (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2019)
as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
as Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
What! No Beer? (1933)
as Jimmy Potts
Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
as (archive footage)
The Last Judgment (1961)
as The man with the large nose
Showbiz Goes to War (1982)
as (archive footage)
Carnival (1935)
as Fingers
This Time for Keeps (1947)
as Ferdi Farro
The Cuban Love Song (1931)
as O.O. Jones
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
as (archive footage)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966)
as Humpty Dumpty
Music for Millions (1944)
as Andrews
The All-Star Christmas Show (1958)
as Self
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Great Rupert (1950)
as Mr. Louie Amendola
You're in the Army Now (1941)
as Homer "Jeeper" Smith
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show (1959)
as Self
Speak Easily (1932)
as James
The Passionate Plumber (1932)
as Julius J. McCracken
George White's Scandals (1934)
as Happy McGillicuddy
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter (2011)
as Himself
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997)
as Self (Archival Footage)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
as Jimmy Clayton
Melody Ranch (1940)
as Cornelius J. Courtney
Plumber in Love (1932)
as Tony
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 (1932)
as Self
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) (1936)
as Self
The March of Time (1930)
as Self
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers (1962)
as Self - Host
The Milkman (1950)
as Breezy Albright
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 (1934)
as Self
Give a Man a Job (1933)
Actor
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931)
as Schnozzle
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1 (2001)
as Self (archive footage)
Murder at N.B.C. (1966)
Actor
Beau James (1957)
as Jimmy Durante
Hollywood on Parade (1932)
as Self
Meet the Baron (1933)
as Joe McGoo
Strictly Dynamite (1934)
as Moxie
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala (2017)
as Self
Land Without Music (1936)
as Jonah J. Whistler
Palooka (1934)
as Knobby Walsh
Student Tour (1934)
as Hank Merman
Roadhouse Nights (1930)
as Daffy (as Durante)
The Christmas Party (1931)
as Santa Claus (uncredited)
The Phantom President (1932)
as Curly
Broadway to Hollywood (1933)
as Jimmy
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7 (1933)
as Self