Jimmy Durante
from New York City, New York, USA
from New York City, New York, USA
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".
Music
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
Himself
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
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Bob Hope's World of Comedy
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Narrator (voice)
Theme Song Performance
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Murder at N.B.C.
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Humpty Dumpty
Smiler Grogan
Self - Host
Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
The man with the large nose
Jimmy Durante
Sunday Showcase
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Jimmy Durante
Mr. Louie Amendola
Breezy Albright
Buckley
Nick Lombardi
Ferdi Farro
'Spike'
Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
Andrews
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Banjo
Homer "Jeeper" Smith
Cornelius J. Courtney
Willie Gumbatz
Jefferson Twitchel
Jimmy Clayton
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Jonah J. Whistler
Fingers
Knobby Walsh
Happy McGillicuddy
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Moxie
Jimmy Durante
Hank Merman
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
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Jimmy Potts
Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
Jimmy
Joe McGoo
Julius J. McCracken
Abe Shilling
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James
Jimmy
Curly
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Tony
Schnozzle
O.O. Jones
Santa Claus (uncredited)
Daffy (as Durante)
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