Jimmy Durante
Acting
- Born:
- 1893-02-09
- Died:
- 1980-01-29
- Place of birth:
- 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
Filmography
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Vaudeville
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
That's Entertainment! III
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Showbiz Goes to War
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
That's Entertainment, Part II
It's Showtime
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
That's Entertainment!
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
The Pearl Bailey Show
The Don Knotts Show
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Frosty the Snowman
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
The Movie Orgy
The Mothers-in-Law
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Murder at N.B.C.
The Hollywood Palace
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Jerry Lewis Show
Billy Rose's Jumbo
The Lucy Show
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
The Last Judgment
Pepe
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Sunday Showcase
The All-Star Christmas Show
Beau James
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Jimmy Durante Show
Summer Playhouse
The Oscars
The Milkman
Four Star Revue
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Bob Hope Show
The Great Rupert
What's My Line?
The Ed Sullivan Show
On an Island with You
This Time for Keeps
It Happened in Brooklyn
Two Sisters from Boston
Music for Millions
Two Girls and a Sailor
Breakdowns of 1942
You're in the Army Now
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Melody Ranch
Little Miss Broadway
Sally, Irene and Mary
Start Cheering
Land Without Music
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Carnival
Student Tour
Hollywood Party
Strictly Dynamite
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
George White's Scandals
Palooka
Meet the Baron
Broadway to Hollywood
Hell Below
What! No Beer?
Give a Man a Job
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
Plumber in Love
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
The Phantom President
Blondie of the Follies
Speak Easily
Hollywood on Parade
The Wet Parade
The Passionate Plumber
The Christmas Party
The Cuban Love Song
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
The March of Time
Roadhouse Nights