Acting
Jimmy Durante
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".
Known for
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Frosty the Snowman
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Oscars
That's Entertainment!
Monte Carlo or Bust!
The Lucy Show
Pepe
That's Entertainment, Part II
That's Entertainment! III
The Last Judgment
The Great Rupert
What's My Line?
Speak Easily
The Ed Sullivan Show
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Movie credits · 79
Frosty the evil snowman
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Vaudeville
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
That's Entertainment! III
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Showbiz Goes to War
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
That's Entertainment, Part II
It's Showtime
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
That's Entertainment!
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Frosty the Snowman
Monte Carlo or Bust!
The Movie Orgy
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Murder at N.B.C.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Billy Rose's Jumbo
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
The Last Judgment
Pepe
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Sunday Showcase
The All-Star Christmas Show
Beau James
The Milkman
The Great Rupert
On an Island with You
This Time for Keeps
It Happened in Brooklyn
TV credits · 18
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
The Pearl Bailey Show
The Don Knotts Show
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
The Mothers-in-Law
The Hollywood Palace
The Jerry Lewis Show
The Lucy Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Steve Allen Show
The Jimmy Durante Show
Summer Playhouse
The Oscars
Four Star Revue
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Bob Hope Show
What's My Line?
The Ed Sullivan Show
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