Jimmy Durante

Acting

Born Feb 09, 1893

From New York City, New York, USA

Died Jan 29, 1980

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".

Jimmy Durante

Known For

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

The Movie Orgy

Frosty the Snowman

On an Island with You

That's Entertainment!

Pepe

That's Entertainment, Part II

Two Sisters from Boston

Showbiz Goes to War

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

Filmography — Acting

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

The Movie Orgy

Frosty the Snowman

On an Island with You

That's Entertainment!

Pepe

That's Entertainment, Part II

Two Sisters from Boston

Showbiz Goes to War

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

The Last Judgment

Start Cheering

The Great Rupert

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Billy Rose's Jumbo

Blondie of the Follies

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Hell Below

Breakdowns of 1942

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

It Happened in Brooklyn

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Two Girls and a Sailor

The All-Star Christmas Show

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

That's Entertainment! III

Carnival

The Cuban Love Song

Broadway to Hollywood

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

Little Miss Broadway

The Wet Parade

Palooka

Hollywood Party

Beau James

The Phantom President

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

Murder at N.B.C.

Sally, Irene and Mary

George White's Scandals

What! No Beer?

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

Melody Ranch

Speak Easily

You're in the Army Now

JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala

It's Showtime

Strictly Dynamite

Meet the Baron

This Time for Keeps

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults

The Passionate Plumber

Music for Millions

Hollywood on Parade No. B-9

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

Student Tour

The Milkman

The Christmas Party

Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter

The March of Time

Land Without Music

Roadhouse Nights

Hollywood on Parade

Hollywood Musicals of the 40's