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person_profile-Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante Died at age: 86

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jimmy Durante

Date of Birth:

Feb 10, 1893

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jan 29, 1980

Biography of

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".

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Filmography of

Jimmy Durante

Found 56 Movies in total

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

Self - Comedian (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2019

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

Self (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 2002

... 2001

That's Entertainment! III

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1988

Going Hollywood: The '30s

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1984

Showbiz Goes to War

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1982

That's Entertainment, Part II

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1976

It's Showtime

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1976

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1975

That's Entertainment!

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1974

The Movie Orgy

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1968

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Humpty Dumpty ( Actor )

... 1966

Hollywood My Home Town

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1965

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Smiler Grogan ( Actor )

... 1963

Billy Rose's Jumbo

Anthony ('Pop') Wonder ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1962

The Last Judgment

The man with the large nose ( Actor )

... 1961

Pepe

Jimmy Durante ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1959

Beau James

Jimmy Durante ( Actor )

... 1957

The Milkman

Breezy Albright ( Actor )

... 1950

The Great Rupert

Mr. Louie Amendola ( Actor )

... 1950

On an Island with You

Buckley ( Actor )

... 1948

This Time for Keeps

Ferdi Farro ( Actor )

... 1947

It Happened in Brooklyn

Nick Lombardi ( Actor )

... 1947

Two Sisters from Boston

'Spike' ( Actor )

... 1946

Music for Millions

Andrews ( Actor )

... 1944

Two Girls and a Sailor

Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp ( Actor )

... 1944

You're in the Army Now

Homer "Jeeper" Smith ( Actor )

... 1941

... 1941

Melody Ranch

Cornelius J. Courtney ( Actor )

... 1940

Little Miss Broadway

Jimmy Clayton ( Actor )

... 1938

Sally, Irene and Mary

Jefferson Twitchel ( Actor )

... 1938

Start Cheering

Willie Gumbatz ( Actor )

... 1938

Land Without Music

Jonah J. Whistler ( Actor )

... 1936

Carnival

Fingers ( Actor )

... 1935

Student Tour

Hank Merman ( Actor )

... 1934

Hollywood Party

Jimmy Durante ( Actor )

... 1934

Strictly Dynamite

Moxie ( Actor )

... 1934

George White's Scandals

Happy McGillicuddy ( Actor )

... 1934

Palooka

Knobby Walsh ( Actor )

... 1934

Meet the Baron

Joe McGoo ( Actor )

... 1933

Broadway to Hollywood

Jimmy ( Actor )

... 1933

Hell Below

Ptomaine' - Ships Cook ( Actor )

... 1933

What! No Beer?

Jimmy Potts ( Actor )

... 1933

The Phantom President

Curly Cooney ( Actor )

... 1932

Blondie of the Follies

Jimmy ( Actor )

... 1932

Speak Easily

James ( Actor )

... 1932

The Wet Parade

Abe Shilling ( Actor )

... 1932

The Passionate Plumber

Julius J. McCracken ( Actor )

... 1932

The Cuban Love Song

O.O. Jones ( Actor )

... 1931

... 1931

The March of Time

Self ( Actor )

... 1930

Roadhouse Nights

Daffy (as Durante) ( Actor )

... 1930