Jimmy Durante
Age: 86 | From: New York City, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1893-02-10 19:29:37
Death: 1980-01-29 19:29:37
Aliases: James Francis Durante , The Schnoz , Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante , Durante
Gender: Male
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 31
TV Involvements: 3
Most Famous Work
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 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".
Most Famous Work
What's My Line?
(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
The Oscars
(1953) Self
Frosty the Snowman
(1969) Narrator (voice)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(1956) Self
That's Entertainment!
(1974) (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(1994) (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
(2014) Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
(1976) (archive footage)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Self | |
| 2014 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2011 | Himself | |
| 2004 | (archive footage) | |
| 2002 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2001 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2000 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1994 | (archive footage) | |
| 1988 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1984 | (archive footage) | |
| 1982 | (archive footage) | |
| 1976 | (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1975 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1974 | (archive footage) | |
| 1971 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| 1970 | Self | |
| 1969 | Narrator (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| 1968 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1967 | Jimmy Durante | |
| 1966 | Humpty Dumpty | |
| 1965 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1964 | Self - Singer | |
| 1963 | Smiler Grogan | |
| 1962 | Anthony ('Pop') Wonder | |
| N/A | ||
| Self - Host | ||
| 1961 | The man with the large nose | |
| 1960 | Jimmy Durante | |
| 1959 | Self | |
| 1957 | Jimmy Durante | |
| 1956 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 1954 | Self - Host | |
| N/A | ||
| 1953 | Self | |
| 1950 | Breezy Albright | |
| Host | ||
| Self | ||
| Mr. Louie Amendola | ||
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| 1948 | Self | |
| Self - Singer | ||
| Buckley | ||
| 1947 | Ferdi Farro | |
| Nick Lombardi | ||
| 1946 | 'Spike' | |
| 1944 | Andrews | |
| Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp | ||
| 1942 | Self | |
| Banjo | ||
| 1941 | Homer "Jeeper" Smith | |
| 1940 | Cornelius J. Courtney | |
| 1938 | Jimmy Clayton | |
| Jefferson Twitchel | ||
| Willie Gumbatz | ||
| 1936 | Jonah J. Whistler | |
| Self | ||
| 1935 | Fingers | |
| 1934 | Hank Merman | |
| Jimmy Durante | ||
| Moxie | ||
| Self | ||
| Happy McGillicuddy | ||
| Knobby Walsh | ||
| 1933 | Joe McGoo | |
| Jimmy | ||
| Ptomaine' - Ships Cook | ||
| Jimmy Potts | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1932 | Self | |
| Curly Cooney | ||
| Jimmy | ||
| James | ||
| Self | ||
| Abe Shilling | ||
| Julius J. McCracken | ||
| 1931 | Santa Claus (uncredited) | |
| O.O. Jones | ||
| Schnozzle | ||
| 1930 | Self | |
| Daffy (as Durante) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
