Person Details

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Aliases: James Francis Durante , The Schnoz , Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante , Durante , Джимми Дюранте , Джимми Дуранте

Gender: Male

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

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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?
Average
7

What's My Line?

(1950) Self - Mystery Guest
The Oscars
Average
7

The Oscars

(1953) Self
Frosty the Snowman
Average
7

Frosty the Snowman

(1969) Narrator (voice)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Average
4
That's Entertainment!
Average
7

That's Entertainment!

(1974) (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
Average
7

That's Entertainment! III

(1994) (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
Average
7

And the Oscar Goes To...

(2014) Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Average
7

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

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