Jimmy Durante
Born in New York City, New York, USA — Feb 09 1893• Died Jan 29 1980
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Biography
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 h…
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Jimmy Durante's Credits
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The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
The Lucy Show
Jimmy Durante
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
The Steve Allen Show
Self
The Oscars
Self
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
The Hollywood Palace
Self
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
On an Island with You
Buckley
The Mothers-in-Law
Jimmy Durante
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Smiler Grogan
The Don Knotts Show
Self
The Jimmy Durante Show
Self - Host
The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
Summer Playhouse
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
Pepe
Jimmy Durante
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage)
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
Broadway to Hollywood
Jimmy
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
Start Cheering
Willie Gumbatz
Two Sisters from Boston
'Spike'
The Wet Parade
Abe Shilling
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage)
Frosty the Snowman
Narrator (voice)
The Last Judgment
The man with the large nose
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
Beau James
Jimmy Durante
Two Girls and a Sailor
Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
Blondie of the Follies
Jimmy
Hell Below
Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
The Jerry Lewis Show
Self
Sally, Irene and Mary
Jefferson Twitchel
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
The Phantom President
Curly
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Humpty Dumpty
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Hollywood Party
Jimmy Durante
Carnival
Fingers
Student Tour
Hank Merman
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Self - Host
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Self (Archival Footage)
What! No Beer?
Jimmy Potts
It Happened in Brooklyn
Nick Lombardi
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Sound
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Banjo
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
Melody Ranch
Cornelius J. Courtney
Music for Millions
Andrews
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Self
The Milkman
Breezy Albright
Palooka
Knobby Walsh
The Christmas Party
Santa Claus (uncredited)
The Passionate Plumber
Julius J. McCracken
Murder at N.B.C.
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Self
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
Four Star Revue
Host
The Great Rupert
Mr. Louie Amendola
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Speak Easily
James
Little Miss Broadway
Jimmy Clayton
The Cuban Love Song
O.O. Jones
Plumber in love
Tony
Land Without Music
Jonah J. Whistler
Roadhouse Nights
Daffy (as Durante)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Himself
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood on Parade
Self
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
George White's Scandals
Happy McGillicuddy
Strictly Dynamite
Moxie
You're in the Army Now
Homer "Jeeper" Smith
Meet the Baron
Joe McGoo
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Schnozzle
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Self
The March of Time
Self
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Self
This Time for Keeps
Ferdi Farro
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
Self
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Self
Give a Man a Job
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Self (archive footage)
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
Self