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(91)
Jimmy Durante
1962
Self
1956
Self
1953
Self
1948
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Self
1950
Self - Cameo
1950
Self
1950
Self (uncredited)
1950
Self
1956
Smiler Grogan
1963
Self (archive footage)
2014
Jimmy
1933
1988
Self - Singer
1964
Jimmy Durante
1960
(archive footage)
1982
1971
Jimmy Durante
1967
Self (archive footage)
1975
O.O. Jones
1931
Joe McGoo
1933
Self - Host
1962
(archive footage)
2004
Self (archive footage)
1976
Jimmy Durante
1934
Self
1942
(archive footage)
1974
Self - Host
1954
(archive footage)
1976
Self (archive footage)
1988
Mr. Louie Amendola
1950
Self
1971
Nick Lombardi
1947
Humpty Dumpty
1966
(archive footage)
1994
Narrator (voice)
1969
Self
1936
Cornelius J. Courtney
1940
Self
1970
Self
1934
Self
1932
Breezy Albright
1950
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
2019
Buckley
1948
1954
Self (archive footage)
1968
Happy McGillicuddy
1934
Abe Shilling
1932
Moxie
1934
Julius J. McCracken
1932
Hank Merman
1934
(archive footage)
1984
Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
1944
Jimmy Durante
1957
Self
1932
Jimmy Clayton
1938
James
1932
The man with the large nose
1961
Homer "Jeeper" Smith
1941
Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
1962
Curly
1932
Jimmy
1932
Willie Gumbatz
1938
Ferdi Farro
1947
'Spike'
1946
Self
1963
Jefferson Twitchel
1938
Banjo
1941
Santa Claus (uncredited)
1931
Knobby Walsh
1934
Daffy (as Durante)
1930
1966
Self (Archival Footage)
1997
Host
1950
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Andrews
1944
Schnozzle
1931
Self (archive footage)
2000
Himself
2011
Self
1969
Jonah J. Whistler
1936
Fingers
1935
Jimmy Potts
1933
Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
1933
Self
2017
Self (archive footage)
2001
Self
1930
Self
1959
1933
Self
1933
