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