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