Jimmy Durante
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".
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Films (79)
Frosty the evil snowman
2021 · Music
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019 · Self - Comedian (archive footage)
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017 · Self
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011 · Himself
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004 · (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000 · Self (archive footage)
Vaudeville
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997 · Self (Archival Footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · (archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
1982 · (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976 · (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · (archive footage)
It's Showtime
1976 · Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
1974 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970 · Self (archive footage)
Frosty the Snowman
1969 · Narrator (voice), Theme Song Performance
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969 · Theme Song Performance
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Self (archive footage)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966 · Humpty Dumpty
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Smiler Grogan
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962 · Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962 · Self - Host
The Last Judgment
1961 · The man with the large nose
Pepe
1960 · Jimmy Durante
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959 · Self
Sunday Showcase
1959
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958 · Self
Beau James
1957 · Jimmy Durante
The Milkman
1950 · Breezy Albright
The Great Rupert
1950 · Mr. Louie Amendola
On an Island with You
1948 · Buckley
This Time for Keeps
1947 · Ferdi Farro
It Happened in Brooklyn
1947 · Nick Lombardi
Two Sisters from Boston
1946 · 'Spike'
Music for Millions
1944 · Andrews
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944 · Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
Breakdowns of 1942
1942 · Self
You're in the Army Now
1941 · Homer "Jeeper" Smith
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · Banjo
Melody Ranch
1940 · Cornelius J. Courtney
Little Miss Broadway
1938 · Jimmy Clayton
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938 · Jefferson Twitchel
Start Cheering
1938 · Willie Gumbatz
Land Without Music
1936 · Jonah J. Whistler
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936 · Self
Carnival
1935 · Fingers
Student Tour
1934 · Hank Merman
Hollywood Party
1934 · Jimmy Durante
Strictly Dynamite
1934 · Moxie
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934 · Self
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934 · Self
George White's Scandals
1934 · Happy McGillicuddy
Palooka
1934 · Knobby Walsh
Meet the Baron
1933 · Joe McGoo
Broadway to Hollywood
1933 · Jimmy
Hell Below
1933 · Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
What! No Beer?
1933 · Jimmy Potts
Give a Man a Job
1933
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
1933 · Self
Plumber in Love
1932 · Tony
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932 · Self
The Phantom President
1932 · Curly
Blondie of the Follies
1932 · Jimmy
Speak Easily
1932 · James
Hollywood on Parade
1932 · Self
The Wet Parade
1932 · Abe Shilling
The Passionate Plumber
1932 · Julius J. McCracken
The Christmas Party
1931 · Santa Claus (uncredited)
The Cuban Love Song
1931 · O.O. Jones
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931 · Schnozzle
The March of Time
1930 · Self
Roadhouse Nights
1930 · Daffy (as Durante)
Séries (18)
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971 · Self
The Don Knotts Show
1970 · Self
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
1969 · Self
The Mothers-in-Law
1967 · Jimmy Durante
The Hollywood Palace
1964 · Self
The Jerry Lewis Show
1963 · Self
The Lucy Show
1962 · Jimmy Durante
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · Self
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Self
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954 · Self - Host
Summer Playhouse
1954
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Four Star Revue
1950 · Host
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self, Self - Cameo
The Bob Hope Show
1950 · Self, Self (uncredited)
What's My Line?
1950 · Self - Mystery Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self