Jimmy Durante
Acting
Born 1893-02-09
Died 1980-01-29
New York City, New York, USA
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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".
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Filmography
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The Lucy Show
What's My Line?
The Steve Allen Show
The Oscars
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Bob Hope Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Hollywood Palace
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
The Mothers-in-Law
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Jimmy Durante Show
The Movie Orgy
It Happened in Brooklyn
The Don Knotts Show
Start Cheering
Frosty the Snowman
The Pearl Bailey Show
That's Entertainment!
Summer Playhouse
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
That's Entertainment! III
Breakdowns of 1942
Vaudeville
That's Entertainment, Part II
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Two Girls and a Sailor
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Pepe
Billy Rose's Jumbo
It's Showtime
What! No Beer?
Alice Through the Looking Glass
The Great Rupert
The Jerry Lewis Show
The All-Star Christmas Show
Two Sisters from Boston
The Phantom President
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
The Last Judgment
The Wet Parade
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Blondie of the Follies
On an Island with You
Showbiz Goes to War
Hollywood Party
Plumber in love
Meet the Baron
Sally, Irene and Mary
Hell Below
Little Miss Broadway
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Melody Ranch
The Christmas Party
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
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