Cast
Jimmy Durante
Acting
Cast
Jimmy Durante
Known for
Acting
Born
1893-02-09
From
New York City, New York, USA
Died
1980-01-29
Also known as James Francis Durante, The Schnoz , Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante
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".
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Smiler Grogan
Melody Ranch
as Cornelius J. Courtney
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
Start Cheering
as Willie Gumbatz
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - Comedian (archive footage)
Frosty the Snowman
as Narrator (voice)
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
Pepe
as Jimmy Durante
Student Tour
as Hank Merman
Beau James
as Jimmy Durante
Breakdowns of 1942
as Self
Blondie of the Follies
as Jimmy
Two Sisters from Boston
as 'Spike'
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
The Last Judgment
as The man with the large nose
It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Banjo
Little Miss Broadway
as Jimmy Clayton
Carnival
as Fingers
Hell Below
as Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter β Volume 1
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
as Self (archive footage)
The Cuban Love Song
as O.O. Jones
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
The Wet Parade
as Abe Shilling
Speak Easily
as James
The Great Rupert
as Mr. Louie Amendola
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
Hollywood Party
as Jimmy Durante
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
as Self - Host
Billy Rose's Jumbo
as Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
George White's Scandals
as Happy McGillicuddy
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
It Happened in Brooklyn
as Nick Lombardi
Brasileiros em Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
The Milkman
as Breezy Albright
Broadway to Hollywood
as Jimmy
Two Girls and a Sailor
as Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
On an Island with You
as Buckley
What! No Beer?
as Jimmy Potts
The Passionate Plumber
as Julius J. McCracken
Strictly Dynamite
as Moxie
The All-Star Christmas Show
as Self
You're in the Army Now
as Homer "Jeeper" Smith
Palooka
as Knobby Walsh
Plumber in love
as Tony
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as (archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
as Self (Archival Footage)
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
as Schnozzle
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
as Self
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
as Self (archive footage)
The Christmas Party
as Santa Claus (uncredited)
Murder at N.B.C.
Sally, Irene and Mary
as Jefferson Twitchel
This Time for Keeps
as Ferdi Farro
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Humpty Dumpty
Vaudeville
as Self (archive footage)
The March of Time
as Self
Meet the Baron
as Joe McGoo
Roadhouse Nights
as Daffy (as Durante)
Music for Millions
as Andrews
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
as Self
Hollywood on Parade
as Self
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
as Self
The Phantom President
as Curly
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
as Self
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
as Himself
Give a Man a Job
Land Without Music
as Jonah J. Whistler
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
as Self