
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".
94 acting credits
Acting · 94

The Lucy Show
1962

What's My Line?
1950

The Oscars
1953

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950

The Steve Allen Show
1956

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948

The Bob Hope Show
1950

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956

The Mothers-in-Law
1967

The Hollywood Palace
1964

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963
The Don Knotts Show
1970
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954
Summer Playhouse
1954

Frosty the Snowman
1969

The Movie Orgy
1968

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019

The Jerry Lewis Show
1963

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975

That's Entertainment!
1974

Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984

Melody Ranch
1940

Pepe
1960

Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962

That's Entertainment! III
1994

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976

The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941

Two Girls and a Sailor
1944

Showbiz Goes to War
1982

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001

Beau James
1957

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962

It's Showtime
1976

Blondie of the Follies
1932

Two Sisters from Boston
1946

The Milkman
1950

Start Cheering
1938

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936

Carnival
1935

Breakdowns of 1942
1942

The Cuban Love Song
1931

Palooka
1934

Hell Below
1933

Little Miss Broadway
1938
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002

The Great Rupert
1950

Broadway to Hollywood
1933

The Phantom President
1932

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931

Hollywood Party
1934

It Happened in Brooklyn
1947

On an Island with You
1948

Meet the Baron
1933

Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966

The All-Star Christmas Show
1958

Speak Easily
1932

The Last Judgment
1961

This Time for Keeps
1947
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004

Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000

The Wet Parade
1932
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
Four Star Revue
1950

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997

The Passionate Plumber
1932

You're in the Army Now
1941

Strictly Dynamite
1934

Hollywood on Parade
1932

Sally, Irene and Mary
1938

Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011

Roadhouse Nights
1930

The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959

Student Tour
1934

The Christmas Party
1931

Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934

Music for Millions
1944
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
1969
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017

What! No Beer?
1933

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988

Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970

Vaudeville
1997

George White's Scandals
1934

The March of Time
1930

Plumber in love
1932

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934

Land Without Music
1936

Give a Man a Job
1933
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
1933