Jimmy Durante
Acting
Born: 1893-02-09 in New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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
The Lucy Show
Jimmy Durante
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self - Cameo
The Steve Allen Show
Self
The Bob Hope Show
Self
The Bob Hope Show
Self (uncredited)
The Oscars
Self
The Hollywood Palace
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Smiler Grogan
The Mothers-in-Law
Jimmy Durante
Start Cheering
Willie Gumbatz
Vaudeville
Self (archive footage)
Frosty the Snowman
Narrator (voice)
Hollywood Party
Jimmy Durante
The Jerry Lewis Show
Self
Summer Playhouse
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Two Girls and a Sailor
Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
Blondie of the Follies
Jimmy
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Pepe
Jimmy Durante
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
On an Island with You
Buckley
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
The Wet Parade
Abe Shilling
Hell Below
Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
The Great Rupert
Mr. Louie Amendola
The Last Judgment
The man with the large nose