Jimmy Durante
Acting
1893-02-09 · 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".
movieNice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Comedian (archive footage) · 2019 · 5.0
movieJFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
as Self · 2017 · 0.0
movieDon Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
as Himself · 2011 · 0.0
movieChecking Out: Grand Hotel
as (archive footage) · 2004 · 7.0
movieMarlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2002 · 6.5
movieThe Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
as Self (archive footage) · 2001 · 0.0
movieHollywood Musicals of the 40's
as Self (archive footage) · 2000 · 0.0
movieVaudeville
as Self (archive footage) · 1997 · 8.0
movieHidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
as Self (Archival Footage) · 1997 · 7.7
movieThat's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage) · 1994 · 7.0
movieHollywood Scandals and Tragedies
as (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1988 · 0.0
movieHappy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1988 · 6.0
movieGoing Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage) · 1984 · 9.0
movieShowbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage) · 1982 · 10.0
movieBob Hope's World of Comedy
as Self (archive footage) · 1976 · 0.0
movieThat's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage) · 1976 · 7.0
movieIt's Showtime
as Self (archive footage) · 1976 · 7.5
movieBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage) · 1975 · 6.3
movieThat's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1974 · 7.4
tvThe Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
as · 1971 · 6.7
tvThe Pearl Bailey Show
as Self · 1971 · 8.0
tvThe Don Knotts Show
as Self · 1970 · 9.0
movieBrasileiros em Hollywood
as Self (archive footage) · 1970 · 0.0
movieFrosty the Snowman
as Narrator (voice) · 1969 · 6.9