Jimmy Durante
Acting
🎂 1893-02-09
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".
Cast credits(90)
Self
1948
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Self
1950
Self - Cameo
1950
Self
1950
Self (uncredited)
1950
Self
1956
Self - Singer
1964
Jimmy Durante
1962
Self
1956
Self - Host
1954
Self
1953
Jimmy Durante
1967
1971
Smiler Grogan
1963
Self
1969
Self
1963
Self (archive footage)
1975
Host
1950
Self
1970
Mr. Louie Amendola
1950
1954
Self
1971
Jimmy Durante
1960
Narrator (voice)
1969
Self (archive footage)
2014
(archive footage)
1976
(archive footage)
1994
(archive footage)
1974
Self (archive footage)
1968
Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
1962
Jimmy Durante
1934
Banjo
1941
Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
1944
The man with the large nose
1961
Homer "Jeeper" Smith
1941
'Spike'
1946
Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
1933
Jimmy Clayton
1938
Jimmy Potts
1933
(archive footage)
1982
Cornelius J. Courtney
1940
Julius J. McCracken
1932
Buckley
1948
O.O. Jones
1931
Willie Gumbatz
1938
(archive footage)
1984
Daffy (as Durante)
1930
Jimmy Durante
1957
Self (archive footage)
1988
Hank Merman
1934
Self (archive footage)
1976
Abe Shilling
1932
Fingers
1935
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
2019
Jimmy
1933
Jefferson Twitchel
1938
Breezy Albright
1950
Andrews
1944
Moxie
1934
Self (archive footage)
2001
Self
1942
Self (archive footage)
2000
Happy McGillicuddy
1934
Curly
1932
(archive footage)
2004
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
James
1932
Joe McGoo
1933
Jimmy
1932
Nick Lombardi
1947
Knobby Walsh
1934
Schnozzle
1931
Santa Claus (uncredited)
1931
Humpty Dumpty
1966
Self
1959
1966
Self
2017
Jonah J. Whistler
1936
Self
1932
Self
1936
Self
1930
Self - Host
1962
Ferdi Farro
1947
Himself
2011
Self
1934
Self (Archival Footage)
1997
Self
1932
1933
Self
1933
