Jimmy Durante
Acting
Born 1893-02-09 · New York City, New York, USA · Died 1980-01-29
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".
Acting
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Self
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Himself
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
(archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Self (archive footage)
Vaudeville
Self (archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Self (Archival Footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
The Don Knotts Show
Self
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Frosty the Snowman
Narrator (voice)
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
Self
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
The Mothers-in-Law
Jimmy Durante
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Humpty Dumpty
Murder at N.B.C.
The Hollywood Palace
Self
