Jimmy Durante

Known for ActingBorn 1893-02-09Died 1980-01-29New 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".Read more

Movies & web series

Showbiz Goes to War

The Jimmy Durante Show

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

Frosty the evil snowman

Going Hollywood: The '30s

The Don Knotts Show

Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters

Plumber in love

Vaudeville

The Pearl Bailey Show

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults

The Jerry Lewis Show

The Milkman

Carnival

It's Showtime

That's Entertainment!

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

That's Entertainment! III

That's Entertainment, Part II

The Lucy Show

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

Frosty the Snowman

What's My Line?

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

The Oscars

The Bob Hope Show

The Man Who Came to Dinner

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Movie Orgy

The March of Time

Start Cheering

Four Star Revue

Sally, Irene and Mary

The Last Judgment

Music for Millions

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Student Tour

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show

Pepe

Little Miss Broadway

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Land Without Music

Strictly Dynamite

Hollywood on Parade