Jimmy Durante
Known for: Acting
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
Series
The Lucy Show
Jimmy Durante
1962
Series
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
Series
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self - Cameo
1950
Series
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
Series
The Bob Hope Show
Self (uncredited)
1950
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
The Steve Allen Show
Self
1956
Series
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
Series
The Hollywood Palace
Self
1964
Series
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
Series
The Mothers-in-Law
Jimmy Durante
1967
Film
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Smiler Grogan
1963
The Don Knotts Show
Self
1970
Film
Frosty the Snowman
Narrator (voice)
1969
The Jimmy Durante Show
Self - Host
1954
Film
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Summer Playhouse
1954
Film
Vaudeville
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
1994
Film
Start Cheering
Willie Gumbatz
1938
Film
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
Film
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976
Film
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
2019
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
1971
Film
The Last Judgment
The man with the large nose
1961
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Self (archive footage)
1976
Film
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
1962
Series
The Jerry Lewis Show
Self
1963
Film
Two Girls and a Sailor
Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
1944
Film
Pepe
Jimmy Durante
1960
Film
Hell Below
Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
1933
Film
Hollywood Party
Jimmy Durante
1934
Film
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Film
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
1970
Film
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
1942
Film
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Film
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
1984
Film
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975
Film
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Banjo
1941
Film
The Great Rupert
Mr. Louie Amendola
1950
Film
The Wet Parade
Abe Shilling
1932
Film
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
1982
Film
Sally, Irene and Mary
Jefferson Twitchel
1938
Film
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Self
1934
Film
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
1976
Film
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Self (Archival Footage)
1997
Film
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Film
Two Sisters from Boston
'Spike'
1946
Film
Little Miss Broadway
Jimmy Clayton
1938
Film
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Humpty Dumpty
1966
Film
The Passionate Plumber
Julius J. McCracken
1932
Film
Meet the Baron
Joe McGoo
1933
Film
The Milkman
Breezy Albright
1950
Film
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Self - Host
1962
Film
You're in the Army Now
Homer "Jeeper" Smith
1941
Film
Blondie of the Follies
Jimmy
1932
Film
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
1958
Film
On an Island with You
Buckley
1948
Film
What! No Beer?
Jimmy Potts
1933
Film
Broadway to Hollywood
Jimmy
1933
Film
The March of Time
Self
1930
Film
Carnival
Fingers
1935
Sunday Showcase
1959
Film
The Phantom President
Curly
1932
Film
Music for Millions
Andrews
1944
Film
Student Tour
Hank Merman
1934
Film
It Happened in Brooklyn
Nick Lombardi
1947
Four Star Revue
Host
1950
Film
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
1936
Film
Speak Easily
James
1932
Film
The Cuban Love Song
O.O. Jones
1931
Film
Plumber in love
Tony
1932
Film
George White's Scandals
Happy McGillicuddy
1934
Film
Melody Ranch
Cornelius J. Courtney
1940
Film
Beau James
Jimmy Durante
1957
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
(archive footage)
2004
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Self
2017
Film
Palooka
Knobby Walsh
1934
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
Film
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Self (archive footage)
2000
Film
Strictly Dynamite
Moxie
1934
Film
The Christmas Party
Santa Claus (uncredited)
1931
Film
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Himself
2011
Film
Hollywood on Parade
Self
1932
Film
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Schnozzle
1931
Film
This Time for Keeps
Ferdi Farro
1947
Film
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Self
1959
Film
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
2001
Film
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Self
1932
Film
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Self
1934
Film
Roadhouse Nights
Daffy (as Durante)
1930
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
Self
1969
Film
Land Without Music
Jonah J. Whistler
1936
Film
Give a Man a Job
1933
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
Self
1933