Jimmy Durante
Actor
Born February 9, 1893 in 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
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Himself
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Self (archive footage)
Vaudeville
Self (archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Self (Archival Footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Frosty the Snowman
Narrator (voice)
Monte Carlo or Bust!
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
The Mothers-in-Law
Jimmy Durante
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Humpty Dumpty
The Hollywood Palace
Self
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Smiler Grogan
The Jerry Lewis Show
Self
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
The Lucy Show
Jimmy Durante
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Self - Host
The Last Judgment
The man with the large nose
Pepe
Jimmy Durante
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Self
Sunday Showcase
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
Beau James
Jimmy Durante
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
The Steve Allen Show
Self
The Oscars
Self
The Milkman
Breezy Albright
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
The Bob Hope Show
Self
The Great Rupert
Mr. Louie Amendola
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
On an Island with You
Buckley
This Time for Keeps
Ferdi Farro
It Happened in Brooklyn
Nick Lombardi
Two Sisters from Boston
'Spike'
Music for Millions
Andrews
Two Girls and a Sailor
Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
You're in the Army Now
Homer "Jeeper" Smith
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Banjo
Melody Ranch
Cornelius J. Courtney
Little Miss Broadway
Jimmy Clayton
Sally, Irene and Mary
Jefferson Twitchel
Start Cheering
Willie Gumbatz
Land Without Music
Jonah J. Whistler
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
Carnival
Fingers
Student Tour
Hank Merman
Hollywood Party
Jimmy Durante
Strictly Dynamite
Moxie
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Self
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Self
George White's Scandals
Happy McGillicuddy
Palooka
Knobby Walsh
Meet the Baron
Joe McGoo
Broadway to Hollywood
Jimmy
Hell Below
Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
What! No Beer?
Jimmy Potts
Give a Man a Job
Plumber in love
Tony
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Self
The Phantom President
Curly
Blondie of the Follies
Jimmy
Speak Easily
James
Hollywood on Parade
Self
The Wet Parade
Abe Shilling
The Passionate Plumber
Julius J. McCracken
The Christmas Party
Santa Claus (uncredited)
The Cuban Love Song
O.O. Jones
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Schnozzle
The March of Time
Self
Roadhouse Nights
Daffy (as Durante)