Jimmy Durante
Acting
1893-02-09 · New York City, New York, USA
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".
Filmography
Frosty the evil snowman
2021 · Movie
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019 · Movie
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017 · Movie
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011 · Movie
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004 · Movie
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002 · Movie
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001 · Movie
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000 · Movie
Vaudeville
1997 · Movie
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997 · Movie
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · Movie
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988 · Movie
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988 · Movie
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984 · Movie
Showbiz Goes to War
1982 · Movie
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976 · Movie
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Movie
It's Showtime
1976 · Movie
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975 · Movie
That's Entertainment!
1974 · Movie
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971 · Series
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971 · Series
The Don Knotts Show
1970 · Series
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970 · Movie
Frosty the Snowman
1969 · Movie
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
1969 · Series
Monte Carlo or Bust!
1969 · Movie
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Movie
The Mothers-in-Law
1967 · Series
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966 · Movie
Murder at N.B.C.
1966 · Movie
The Hollywood Palace
1964 · Series
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · Movie
The Jerry Lewis Show
1963 · Series
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962 · Movie
The Lucy Show
1962 · Series
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962 · Movie
The Last Judgment
1961 · Movie
Pepe
1960 · Movie
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959 · Movie
Sunday Showcase
1959 · Movie
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958 · Movie
Beau James
1957 · Movie
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956 · Series
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Series
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954 · Series
Summer Playhouse
1954 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
The Milkman
1950 · Movie
Four Star Revue
1950 · Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Series
The Bob Hope Show
1950 · Series
The Great Rupert
1950 · Movie
What's My Line?
1950 · Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Series
On an Island with You
1948 · Movie
This Time for Keeps
1947 · Movie
It Happened in Brooklyn
1947 · Movie
Two Sisters from Boston
1946 · Movie
Music for Millions
1944 · Movie
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944 · Movie
Breakdowns of 1942
1942 · Movie
You're in the Army Now
1941 · Movie
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · Movie
Melody Ranch
1940 · Movie
Little Miss Broadway
1938 · Movie
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938 · Movie
Start Cheering
1938 · Movie
Land Without Music
1936 · Movie
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936 · Movie
Carnival
1935 · Movie
Student Tour
1934 · Movie
Hollywood Party
1934 · Movie
Strictly Dynamite
1934 · Movie
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934 · Movie
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934 · Movie
George White's Scandals
1934 · Movie
Palooka
1934 · Movie
Meet the Baron
1933 · Movie
Broadway to Hollywood
1933 · Movie
Hell Below
1933 · Movie
What! No Beer?
1933 · Movie
Give a Man a Job
1933 · Movie
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
1933 · Movie
Plumber in Love
1932 · Movie
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932 · Movie
The Phantom President
1932 · Movie
Blondie of the Follies
1932 · Movie
Speak Easily
1932 · Movie
Hollywood on Parade
1932 · Movie
The Wet Parade
1932 · Movie
The Passionate Plumber
1932 · Movie
The Christmas Party
1931 · Movie
The Cuban Love Song
1931 · Movie
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931 · Movie
The March of Time
1930 · Movie
Roadhouse Nights
1930 · Movie