Jimmy Durante

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

133

Movies

Born: February 9, 1893 – January 29, 1980
From: New York City, New York, USA

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".

Works

77 films

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

19637.0

Frosty the Snowman

19696.9

That's Entertainment!

19747.4

That's Entertainment! III

19947.0

It Happened in Brooklyn

19475.9

The Movie Orgy

19686.7

Start Cheering

19386.9

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

20195.0

That's Entertainment, Part II

19767.0

The Man Who Came to Dinner

19417.0

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

It's Showtime

19767.5

Two Girls and a Sailor

19445.8

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

20026.5

Pepe

19606.3

Vaudeville

19978.0

Brasileiros em Hollywood

1970

Breakdowns of 1942

19426.0

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

1976

On an Island with You

19485.9

Hell Below

19336.0

Billy Rose's Jumbo

19626.0

Blondie of the Follies

19326.3

The Last Judgment

19616.5

Alice Through the Looking Glass

19666.2

Going Hollywood: The '30s

19849.0

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

The Wet Parade

19326.2

What! No Beer?

19335.7

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10

1934

The Great Rupert

19505.8

The All-Star Christmas Show

19586.0

Two Sisters from Boston

19466.3

Little Miss Broadway

19386.5

Sally, Irene and Mary

19386.8

Meet the Baron

19335.3

Showbiz Goes to War

198210.0

Plumber in love

19329.0

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

19627.0

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

19366.0

Hollywood Party

19345.7

George White's Scandals

19345.4

Melody Ranch

19406.2

The Phantom President

19326.5

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

19886.0

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

20047.0

Hollywood on Parade

19326.5

Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter

2011

Murder at N.B.C.

1966

The Christmas Party

19315.4

The Milkman

19507.0

Sunday Showcase

1959

Hollywood on Parade No. B-9

1934

Hollywood Musicals of the 40's

2000

Broadway to Hollywood

19335.0

The Passionate Plumber

19326.1

You're in the Army Now

19414.4

Music for Millions

19446.7

Beau James

19575.4

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults

19977.7

JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala

2017

Carnival

19358.0

Student Tour

19346.7

This Time for Keeps

19475.8

The Frank Sinatra Timex Show

1959

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

193210.0

The Cuban Love Song

19314.8

Palooka

19343.6

Roadhouse Nights

19306.0

The March of Time

19307.0

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1

2001

Strictly Dynamite

19346.5

Land Without Music

19366.5

Speak Easily

19325.7

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford

19316.0

Give a Man a Job

19334.5

Prohibition Newsreel No. 7

1933