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