Jimmy Durante

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1893-02-09

Deathday 1980-01-29 (86 years old)

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

Jimmy Durante

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

Actor

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel

as (archive footage)

2002
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2000
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's

as Self (archive footage)

1994
That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)

1982
Showbiz Goes to War

as (archive footage)

1976
That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1976
It's Showtime

as Self (archive footage)

1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1974
That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage)

1969
Frosty the Snowman

as Narrator (voice)

1968
The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)

1967
The Mothers-in-Law

as Jimmy Durante

1966
1964
The Hollywood Palace

as Self - Singer

1963
1962
Billy Rose's Jumbo

as Anthony ('Pop') Wonder

1962
The Lucy Show

as Jimmy Durante

1961
The Last Judgment

as The man with the large nose

1960
Pepe

as Jimmy Durante

1957
Beau James

as Jimmy Durante

1954
The Jimmy Durante Show

as Self - Host

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1950
The Milkman

as Breezy Albright

1950
The Great Rupert

as Mr. Louie Amendola

1950
1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self - Cameo

1950
1950
What's My Line?

as Self - Mystery Guest

1948
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self - Singer

1947
This Time for Keeps

as Ferdi Farro

1947
It Happened in Brooklyn

as Nick Lombardi

1944
1944
Two Girls and a Sailor

as Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp

1942
1941
You're in the Army Now

as Homer "Jeeper" Smith

1940
Melody Ranch

as Cornelius J. Courtney

1938
Little Miss Broadway

as Jimmy Clayton

1938
Sally, Irene and Mary

as Jefferson Twitchel

1938
Start Cheering

as Willie Gumbatz

1936
Land Without Music

as Jonah J. Whistler

1935
Carnival

as Fingers

1934
Student Tour

as Hank Merman

1934
Hollywood Party

as Jimmy Durante

1934
1934
George White's Scandals

as Happy McGillicuddy

1934
Palooka

as Knobby Walsh

1933
Meet the Baron

as Joe McGoo

1933
Hell Below

as Ptomaine' - Ships Cook

1933
What! No Beer?

as Jimmy Potts

1932
The Phantom President

as Curly Cooney

1932
Speak Easily

as James

1932
The Wet Parade

as Abe Shilling

1932
The Passionate Plumber

as Julius J. McCracken

1931
The Christmas Party

as Santa Claus (uncredited)

1931
The Cuban Love Song

as O.O. Jones

1930
1930
Roadhouse Nights

as Daffy (as Durante)

Sound

1969
Frosty the Snowman

as Theme Song Performance