Acting
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
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Film · 2019
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Film · 2017
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Film · 2011
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Film · 2004
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Film · 2002
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Film · 2001
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Film · 2000
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Film · 1997
Vaudeville
Film · 1997
That's Entertainment! III
Film · 1994
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Film · 1988
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Film · 1988
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Film · 1984
Showbiz Goes to War
Film · 1982
That's Entertainment, Part II
Film · 1976
It's Showtime
Film · 1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Film · 1976
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Film · 1975
That's Entertainment!
Film · 1974
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
Series · 1971
The Pearl Bailey Show
Series · 1971
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Film · 1970
The Don Knotts Show
Series · 1970
Frosty the Snowman
Film · 1969
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
Series · 1969
The Movie Orgy
Film · 1968
The Mothers-in-Law
Series · 1967
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Film · 1966
Murder at N.B.C.
Film · 1966
The Hollywood Palace
Series · 1964
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Film · 1963
The Jerry Lewis Show
Series · 1963
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Film · 1962
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Film · 1962
The Lucy Show
Series · 1962
The Last Judgment
Film · 1961
Pepe
Film · 1960
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Film · 1959
Sunday Showcase
Film · 1959
The All-Star Christmas Show
Film · 1958
Beau James
Film · 1957
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Series · 1956
The Steve Allen Show
Series · 1956
Summer Playhouse
Series · 1954
The Jimmy Durante Show
Series · 1954
The Oscars
Series · 1953
The Great Rupert
Film · 1950
The Milkman
Film · 1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Series · 1950
Four Star Revue
Series · 1950
What's My Line?
Series · 1950
The Bob Hope Show
Series · 1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Series · 1950
The Bob Hope Show
Series · 1950
On an Island with You
Film · 1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Series · 1948
This Time for Keeps
Film · 1947
It Happened in Brooklyn
Film · 1947
Two Sisters from Boston
Film · 1946
Two Girls and a Sailor
Film · 1944
Music for Millions
Film · 1944
Breakdowns of 1942
Film · 1942
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Film · 1941
You're in the Army Now
Film · 1941
Melody Ranch
Film · 1940
Little Miss Broadway
Film · 1938
Start Cheering
Film · 1938
Sally, Irene and Mary
Film · 1938
Land Without Music
Film · 1936
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Film · 1936
Carnival
Film · 1935
Palooka
Film · 1934
George White's Scandals
Film · 1934
Strictly Dynamite
Film · 1934
Hollywood Party
Film · 1934
Student Tour
Film · 1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Film · 1934
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Film · 1934
What! No Beer?
Film · 1933
Broadway to Hollywood
Film · 1933
Meet the Baron
Film · 1933
Give a Man a Job
Film · 1933
Hell Below
Film · 1933
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
Film · 1933
Blondie of the Follies
Film · 1932
Speak Easily
Film · 1932
The Passionate Plumber
Film · 1932
The Wet Parade
Film · 1932
The Phantom President
Film · 1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Film · 1932
Hollywood on Parade
Film · 1932
Plumber in Love
Film · 1932
The Cuban Love Song
Film · 1931
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Film · 1931
The Christmas Party
Film · 1931
Roadhouse Nights
Film · 1930
The March of Time
Film · 1930