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".
Filmography (95 titles)
5.0MovieNice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Comedian (archive footage) · 2019
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Self · 2017
MovieDon Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Himself · 2011
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
(archive footage) · 2004
6.5MovieMarlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2002
MovieThe Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Self (archive footage) · 2001
MovieHollywood Musicals of the 40's
Self (archive footage) · 2000
8.0MovieVaudeville
Self (archive footage) · 1997
7.7MovieHidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Self (Archival Footage) · 1997
7.0MovieThat's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) · 1994
MovieHollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited) · 1988
6.0MovieHappy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1988
9.0MovieGoing Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage) · 1984
10.0MovieShowbiz Goes to War
(archive footage) · 1982
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Self (archive footage) · 1976
7.0MovieThat's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage) · 1976
7.5MovieIt's Showtime
Self (archive footage) · 1976
6.3MovieBrother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage) · 1975
7.4MovieThat's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited) · 1974
6.7ShowThe Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self · 1971
The Don Knotts Show
Self · 1970
MovieBrasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage) · 1970
6.9MovieFrosty the Snowman
Narrator (voice) · 1969
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
Self · 1969
6.7MovieThe Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage) · 1968
6.0ShowThe Mothers-in-Law
Jimmy Durante · 1967
6.2MovieAlice Through the Looking Glass
Humpty Dumpty · 1966
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
5.0ShowThe Hollywood Palace
Self · 1964