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".
Acted in
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017
as Self
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011
as Himself
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
as (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
It's Showtime
1976
as Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage)
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971
as Self
The Don Knotts Show
1970
as Self
Frosty the Snowman
1969
as Narrator (voice)
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
1969
as Self
The Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
The Mothers-in-Law
1967
as Jimmy Durante
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966
as Humpty Dumpty
The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self - Singer
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
as Smiler Grogan
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962
as Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
The Lucy Show
1962
as Jimmy Durante
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962
as Self - Host
The Last Judgment
1961
as The man with the large nose
Pepe
1960
as Jimmy Durante
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959
as Self
Beau James
1957
as Jimmy Durante
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954
as Self - Host
Summer Playhouse
1954
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Milkman
1950
as Breezy Albright
Four Star Revue
1950
as Host
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self - Cameo
The Great Rupert
1950
as Mr. Louie Amendola
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
On an Island with You
1948
as Buckley
This Time for Keeps
1947
as Ferdi Farro
It Happened in Brooklyn
1947
as Nick Lombardi
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
as 'Spike'
Music for Millions
1944
as Andrews
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
as Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
You're in the Army Now
1941
as Homer "Jeeper" Smith
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
as Banjo
Melody Ranch
1940
as Cornelius J. Courtney
Little Miss Broadway
1938
as Jimmy Clayton
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938
as Jefferson Twitchel
Start Cheering
1938
as Willie Gumbatz
Land Without Music
1936
as Jonah J. Whistler
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
as Self
Carnival
1935
as Fingers
Student Tour
1934
as Hank Merman
Hollywood Party
1934
as Jimmy Durante
Strictly Dynamite
1934
as Moxie
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934
as Self
George White's Scandals
1934
as Happy McGillicuddy
Palooka
1934
as Knobby Walsh
Meet the Baron
1933
as Joe McGoo
Broadway to Hollywood
1933
as Jimmy
Hell Below
1933
as Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
What! No Beer?
1933
as Jimmy Potts
Give a Man a Job
1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932
as Self
The Phantom President
1932
as Curly Cooney
Blondie of the Follies
1932
as Jimmy
Speak Easily
1932
as James
Hollywood on Parade
1932
as Self
The Wet Parade
1932
as Abe Shilling
The Passionate Plumber
1932
as Julius J. McCracken
The Christmas Party
1931
as Santa Claus (uncredited)
The Cuban Love Song
1931
as O.O. Jones
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931
as Schnozzle
The March of Time
1930
as Self
Roadhouse Nights
1930
as Daffy (as Durante)