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