Jimmy Durante
Acting
Born February 9, 1893 · New York City, New York, USA
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".
Films (74)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
It's Showtime
1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
That's Entertainment!
1974
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970
Frosty the Snowman
1969
The Movie Orgy
1968
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962
The Last Judgment
1961
Pepe
1960
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
Beau James
1957
The Milkman
1950
The Great Rupert
1950
On an Island with You
1948
This Time for Keeps
1947
It Happened in Brooklyn
1947
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
Music for Millions
1944
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
You're in the Army Now
1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Melody Ranch
1940
Little Miss Broadway
1938
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938
Start Cheering
1938
Land Without Music
1936
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
Carnival
1935
Student Tour
1934
Hollywood Party
1934
Strictly Dynamite
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934
George White's Scandals
1934
Palooka
1934
Meet the Baron
1933
Broadway to Hollywood
1933
Hell Below
1933
What! No Beer?
1933
Give a Man a Job
1933
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
1933
Plumber in love
1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932
The Phantom President
1932
Blondie of the Follies
1932
Speak Easily
1932
Hollywood on Parade
1932
The Wet Parade
1932
The Passionate Plumber
1932
The Christmas Party
1931
The Cuban Love Song
1931
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931
The March of Time
1930
Roadhouse Nights
1930