Acting
Jimmy Durante
EN, PT, IT, FR cinema · 79 credits
Born
9 February 1893
Died
29 January 1980 (aged 86)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as James Francis Durante · The Schnoz · Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante · Durante · Джимми Дюранте · Джимми Дуранте
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
Filmography
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as (archive footage)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
as Self (archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
as Self (Archival Footage)
Vaudeville
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Frosty the Snowman
as Narrator (voice), Theme Song Performance
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Theme Song Performance
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Humpty Dumpty
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Smiler Grogan
Billy Rose's Jumbo
as Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
The Last Judgment
as The man with the large nose
Pepe
as Jimmy Durante
Beau James
as Jimmy Durante
The Great Rupert
as Mr. Louie Amendola
The Milkman
as Breezy Albright
On an Island with You
as Buckley
This Time for Keeps
as Ferdi Farro
It Happened in Brooklyn
as Nick Lombardi
Two Sisters from Boston
as 'Spike'
Two Girls and a Sailor
as Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
Music for Millions
as Andrews
You're in the Army Now
as Homer "Jeeper" Smith
Melody Ranch
as Cornelius J. Courtney
Little Miss Broadway
as Jimmy Clayton
Start Cheering
as Willie Gumbatz
Sally, Irene and Mary
as Jefferson Twitchel
Land Without Music
as Jonah J. Whistler
Carnival
as Fingers
Palooka
as Knobby Walsh
George White's Scandals
as Happy McGillicuddy
Strictly Dynamite
as Moxie
Hollywood Party
as Jimmy Durante
Student Tour
as Hank Merman
What! No Beer?
as Jimmy Potts
Meet the Baron
as Joe McGoo
Hell Below
as Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
Speak Easily
as James
The Passionate Plumber
as Julius J. McCracken
The Wet Parade
as Abe Shilling
Plumber in Love
as Tony
The Cuban Love Song
as O.O. Jones
The Christmas Party
as Santa Claus (uncredited)
Roadhouse Nights
as Daffy (as Durante)
