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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 9, 1893
Died
January 29, 1980
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- James Francis Durante
- The Schnoz
- Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante
- Durante
- Джимми Дюранте
- Джимми Дуранте
Jimmy Durante
0.4 Popularity
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".
Known For
5.5
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
🎬
0.0
Self
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017
7.0
Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
🎬
0.0
Himself
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011
🎬
7.0
(archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
6.4
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000
7.0
Self (Archival Footage)
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997
7.0
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
Credits
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
2019
5.5
🎬
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
as Self
2017
0.0
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
2014
7.0
🎬
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
as Himself
2011
0.0
🎬
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as (archive footage)
2004
7.0
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
6.4
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
as Self (archive footage)
2001
0.0
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
as Self (Archival Footage)
1997
7.0
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
1988
6.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
1982
10.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)
1976
7.0
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
5.7
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage)
1974
7.3
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
6.5
🎬
The Pearl Bailey Show
as Self
1971
0.0
🎬
The Don Knotts Show
as Self
1970
0.0
Frosty the Snowman
as Narrator (voice)
1969
7.0
🎬
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
as Self
1969
0.0
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1968
6.5
The Mothers-in-Law
as Jimmy Durante
1967
5.8
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Humpty Dumpty
1966
6.0
🎬
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
0.0
The Hollywood Palace
as Self - Singer
1964
4.5
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Smiler Grogan
1963
7.0
The Jerry Lewis Show
as Self
1963
7.0
Billy Rose's Jumbo
as Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
1962
5.6
The Lucy Show
as Jimmy Durante
1962
7.0
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
as Self - Host
1962
7.0
The Last Judgment
as The man with the large nose
1961
6.4
Pepe
as Jimmy Durante
1960
6.2
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
as Self
1959
0.0
Beau James
as Jimmy Durante
1957
5.7
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
The Steve Allen Show
as Self
1956
5.6
🎬
The Jimmy Durante Show
as Self - Host
1954
0.0
🎬
Summer Playhouse
1954
0.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Milkman
as Breezy Albright
1950
8.0
🎬
Four Star Revue
as Host
1950
6.7
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self - Cameo
1950
6.8
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
The Bob Hope Show
as Self (uncredited)
1950
7.0
The Great Rupert
as Mr. Louie Amendola
1950
5.6
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
On an Island with You
as Buckley
1948
5.6
This Time for Keeps
as Ferdi Farro
1947
5.2
It Happened in Brooklyn
as Nick Lombardi
1947
6.0
Two Sisters from Boston
as 'Spike'
1946
6.0
Music for Millions
as Andrews
1944
6.0
Two Girls and a Sailor
as Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
1944
5.7
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
1942
6.0
You're in the Army Now
as Homer "Jeeper" Smith
1941
3.6
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Banjo
1941
6.9
Melody Ranch
as Cornelius J. Courtney
1940
5.8
Little Miss Broadway
as Jimmy Clayton
1938
6.6
Sally, Irene and Mary
as Jefferson Twitchel
1938
6.0
Start Cheering
as Willie Gumbatz
1938
7.0
Land Without Music
as Jonah J. Whistler
1936
6.0
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
1936
6.0
Carnival
as Fingers
1935
0.0
Student Tour
as Hank Merman
1934
5.0
Hollywood Party
as Jimmy Durante
1934
5.8
Strictly Dynamite
as Moxie
1934
5.3
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
as Self
1934
0.0
George White's Scandals
as Happy McGillicuddy
1934
5.0
Palooka
as Knobby Walsh
1934
3.0
Meet the Baron
as Joe McGoo
1933
4.3
Broadway to Hollywood
as Jimmy
1933
4.6
Hell Below
as Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
1933
6.3
What! No Beer?
as Jimmy Potts
1933
5.4
Give a Man a Job
1933
2.0
🎬
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
as Self
1933
0.0
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
1932
0.0
The Phantom President
as Curly
1932
5.5
Blondie of the Follies
as Jimmy
1932
6.0
Speak Easily
as James
1932
5.8
Hollywood on Parade
as Self
1932
3.0
The Wet Parade
as Abe Shilling
1932
5.8
The Passionate Plumber
as Julius J. McCracken
1932
6.0
The Christmas Party
as Santa Claus (uncredited)
1931
4.9
The Cuban Love Song
as O.O. Jones
1931
4.3
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
as Schnozzle
1931
5.0
The March of Time
as Self
1930
0.0
Roadhouse Nights
as Daffy (as Durante)
1930
4.5