Jimmy Durante
Known for Acting · 94 credits
- Born
- 1893-02-09
- Died
- 1980-01-29
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- James Francis Durante · The Schnoz · Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante · Durante · Джимми Дюранте · Джимми Дуранте
Biography
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
TV Shows (18)
What's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
The Lucy Show
1962
as Jimmy Durante
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
as Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self / Self - Cameo
The Oscars
1953
as Self
The Bob Hope Show
1950
as Self / Self (uncredited)
The Steve Allen Show
1956
as Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
as Self
The Hollywood Palace
1964
as Self
The Mothers-in-Law
1967
as Jimmy Durante
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954
as Self - Host
The Don Knotts Show
1970
as Self
Summer Playhouse
1954
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971
as Self
The Jerry Lewis Show
1963
as Self
Four Star Revue
1950
as Host
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
1969
as Self
Movies (76)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
as Smiler Grogan
Melody Ranch
1940
as Cornelius J. Courtney
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
Frosty the Snowman
1969
as Narrator (voice)
That's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Start Cheering
1938
as Willie Gumbatz
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
as Self (archive footage)
Blondie of the Follies
1932
as Jimmy
Pepe
1960
as Jimmy Durante
Little Miss Broadway
1938
as Jimmy Clayton
Two Sisters from Boston
1946
as 'Spike'
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
It's Showtime
1976
as Self (archive footage)
Beau James
1957
as Jimmy Durante
Student Tour
1934
as Hank Merman
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
as Banjo
Carnival
1935
as Fingers
Showbiz Goes to War
1982
as (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
as Self (archive footage)
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
as Self
Hollywood Party
1934
as Jimmy Durante
The Wet Parade
1932
as Abe Shilling
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Broadway to Hollywood
1933
as Jimmy
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962
as Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
What! No Beer?
1933
as Jimmy Potts
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962
as Self - Host
The Last Judgment
1961
as The man with the large nose
The Great Rupert
1950
as Mr. Louie Amendola
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
as (archive footage)
The Cuban Love Song
1931
as O.O. Jones
Speak Easily
1932
as James
The Milkman
1950
as Breezy Albright
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
as Self
The All-Star Christmas Show
1958
as Self
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997
as Self (Archival Footage)
George White's Scandals
1934
as Happy McGillicuddy
Strictly Dynamite
1934
as Moxie
Palooka
1934
as Knobby Walsh
Hell Below
1933
as Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
It Happened in Brooklyn
1947
as Nick Lombardi
On an Island with You
1948
as Buckley
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017
as Self
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
as Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970
as Self (archive footage)
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938
as Jefferson Twitchel
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931
as Schnozzle
The Passionate Plumber
1932
as Julius J. McCracken
Plumber in love
1932
as Tony
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
You're in the Army Now
1941
as Homer "Jeeper" Smith
Roadhouse Nights
1930
as Daffy (as Durante)
Music for Millions
1944
as Andrews
The March of Time
1930
as Self
This Time for Keeps
1947
as Ferdi Farro
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932
as Self
Meet the Baron
1933
as Joe McGoo
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
as (archive footage)
The Christmas Party
1931
as Santa Claus (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade
1932
as Self
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966
as Humpty Dumpty
The Phantom President
1932
as Curly
Vaudeville
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934
as Self
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959
as Self
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934
as Self
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011
as Himself
Give a Man a Job
1933
Land Without Music
1936
as Jonah J. Whistler
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
1933
as Self
About 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 h… With 94 credits spanning from 1930 to 2019, Jimmy Durante has appeared in 76 films and 18 TV shows.
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Most Popular Jimmy Durante Movies
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) — as Smiler Grogan
- Melody Ranch (1940) — as Cornelius J. Courtney
- Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988) — as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- That's Entertainment! III (1994) — as (archive footage)
- Frosty the Snowman (1969) — as Narrator (voice)
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