Jimmy Durante

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: Acting

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1893-02-09

Died: 1980-01-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1930	Roadhouse Nights	Daffy (as Durante)	45
2	1930	The March of Time	Self	0
3	1931	New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford	Schnozzle	50
4	1931	The Cuban Love Song	O.O. Jones	43
5	1931	The Christmas Party	Santa Claus (uncredited)	49
6	1932	The Passionate Plumber	Julius J. McCracken	60
7	1932	The Wet Parade	Abe Shilling	58
8	1932	Hollywood on Parade	Self	30
9	1932	Speak Easily	James	58
10	1932	Blondie of the Follies	Jimmy	60
11	1932	The Phantom President	Curly	55
12	1932	Hollywood on Parade No. A-3	Self	0
13	1933	Prohibition Newsreel No. 7	Self	0
14	1933	Give a Man a Job		20
15	1933	What! No Beer?	Jimmy Potts	54
16	1933	Hell Below	Ptomaine' - Ships Cook	63
17	1933	Broadway to Hollywood	Jimmy	46
18	1933	Meet the Baron	Joe McGoo	43
19	1934	Palooka	Knobby Walsh	30
20	1934	George White's Scandals	Happy McGillicuddy	50
21	1934	Hollywood on Parade No. B-9	Self	0
22	1934	Strictly Dynamite	Moxie	53
23	1934	Hollywood Party	Jimmy Durante	58
24	1934	Student Tour	Hank Merman	50
25	1935	Carnival	Fingers	0
26	1936	Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)	Self	60
27	1936	Land Without Music	Jonah J. Whistler	60
28	1938	Start Cheering	Willie Gumbatz	70
29	1938	Sally, Irene and Mary	Jefferson Twitchel	60
30	1938	Little Miss Broadway	Jimmy Clayton	65
31	1940	Melody Ranch	Cornelius J. Courtney	58
32	1941	The Man Who Came to Dinner	Banjo	69
33	1941	You're in the Army Now	Homer "Jeeper" Smith	40
34	1942	Breakdowns of 1942	Self	60
35	1944	Two Girls and a Sailor	Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp	57
36	1944	Music for Millions	Andrews	60
37	1946	Two Sisters from Boston	'Spike'	60
38	1947	It Happened in Brooklyn	Nick Lombardi	60
39	1947	This Time for Keeps	Ferdi Farro	52
40	1948	On an Island with You	Buckley	56
41	1950	The Great Rupert	Mr. Louie Amendola	56
42	1950	The Milkman	Breezy Albright	80
43	1957	Beau James	Jimmy Durante	57
44	1959	The Frank Sinatra Timex Show	Self	0
45	1960	Pepe	Jimmy Durante	62
46	1961	The Last Judgment	The man with the large nose	64
47	1962	The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers	Self - Host	70
48	1962	Billy Rose's Jumbo	Anthony ('Pop') Wonder	56
49	1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Smiler Grogan	70
50	1966	Murder at N.B.C.		0
51	1966	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Humpty Dumpty	60
52	1968	The Movie Orgy	Self (archive footage)	65
53	1969	Frosty the Snowman	Narrator (voice)	70
54	1974	That's Entertainment!	(archive footage)	73
55	1975	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Self (archive footage)	57
56	1976	It's Showtime	Self (archive footage)	70
57	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	69
58	1982	Showbiz Goes to War	(archive footage)	100
59	1984	Going Hollywood: The '30s	(archive footage)	100
60	1988	Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC	Self (archive footage)	60
61	1994	That's Entertainment! III	(archive footage)	70
62	1997	Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults	Self (Archival Footage)	70
63	2000	Hollywood Musicals of the 40's	Self (archive footage)	0
64	2001	The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1	Self (archive footage)	0
65	2002	Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	64
66	2004	Checking Out: Grand Hotel	(archive footage)	70
67	2011	Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter	Himself	0
68	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
69	2017	JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala	Self	0
70	2019	Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast	Self - Comedian (archive footage)	43

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
3	1950	The Bob Hope Show	Self	70
4	1950	The Bob Hope Show	Self (uncredited)	70
5	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
6	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self - Cameo	68
7	1950	Four Star Revue	Host	67
8	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
9	1954	Summer Playhouse		0
10	1954	The Jimmy Durante Show	Self - Host	0
11	1956	The Steve Allen Show	Self	56
12	1956	The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	Self	60
13	1962	The Lucy Show	Jimmy Durante	70
14	1963	The Jerry Lewis Show	Self	70
15	1964	The Hollywood Palace	Self - Singer	45
16	1967	The Mothers-in-Law	Jimmy Durante	58
17	1969	Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters	Self	0
18	1970	The Don Knotts Show	Self	0
19	1971	The Pearl Bailey Show	Self	0
20	1971	The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour		65

Jimmy Durante

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Television