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".
Known for
ActingBirthday
February 9, 1893Deathday
January 29, 1980Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
67Place of birth
New York City, New York, USAAlso known as
James Francis Durante, The Schnoz , Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante, Durante, Джимми Дюранте, Джимми ДурантеCast credits
Blondie of the Follies
JimmyIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Smiler GroganPalooka
Knobby WalshThe Man Who Came to Dinner
BanjoFrosty the Snowman
Narrator (voice)Billy Rose's Jumbo
Anthony ('Pop') WonderSpeak Easily
JamesOn an Island with You
BuckleyLittle Miss Broadway
Jimmy ClaytonThis Time for Keeps
Ferdi FarroThe Great Rupert
Mr. Louie AmendolaIt Happened in Brooklyn
Nick LombardiRoadhouse Nights
Daffy (as Durante)Two Girls and a Sailor
Billy Kipp / Julian KippThe Passionate Plumber
Julius J. McCrackenWhat! No Beer?
Jimmy PottsPepe
Jimmy DuranteBroadway to Hollywood
JimmyThe Cuban Love Song
O.O. JonesStart Cheering
Willie GumbatzThe Wet Parade
Abe Shilling