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