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