Jimmy Durante
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".
Blondie of the Follies
(Jimmy)
The Movie Orgy
(Self (archive footage))
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
(Smiler Grogan)
Palooka
(Knobby Walsh)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(Banjo)
Frosty the Snowman
(Narrator (voice))
Billy Rose's Jumbo
(Anthony ('Pop') Wonder)
Speak Easily
(James)
On an Island with You
(Buckley)
Little Miss Broadway
(Jimmy Clayton)
This Time for Keeps
(Ferdi Farro)
The Great Rupert
(Mr. Louie Amendola)
It Happened in Brooklyn
(Nick Lombardi)
Showbiz Goes to War
((archive footage))
Roadhouse Nights
(Daffy (as Durante))
Two Girls and a Sailor
(Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp)
What! No Beer?
(Jimmy Potts)
The Passionate Plumber
(Julius J. McCracken)
Pepe
(Jimmy Durante)
Broadway to Hollywood
(Jimmy)
The Cuban Love Song
(O.O. Jones)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
(Self (archive footage))
Start Cheering
(Willie Gumbatz)
The March of Time
(Self)
The Wet Parade
(Abe Shilling)
The Milkman
(Breezy Albright)
George White's Scandals
(Happy McGillicuddy)
Meet the Baron
(Joe McGoo)
The Phantom President
(Curly)
Give a Man a Job
Strictly Dynamite
(Moxie)
Hollywood Party
(Jimmy Durante)
Alice Through the Looking Glass
(Humpty Dumpty)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
(Self)
Land Without Music
(Jonah J. Whistler)
Melody Ranch
(Cornelius J. Courtney)
Music for Millions
(Andrews)
Hell Below
(Ptomaine' - Ships Cook)
Student Tour
(Hank Merman)
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
(Himself)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
((archive footage))
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
(Schnozzle)
Sally, Irene and Mary
(Jefferson Twitchel)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
((archive footage))
Two Sisters from Boston
('Spike')
The Christmas Party
(Santa Claus (uncredited))
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
(Self - Host)
Hollywood on Parade
(Self)
That's Entertainment!
((archive footage))
Beau James
(Jimmy Durante)
Carnival
(Fingers)
You're in the Army Now
(Homer "Jeeper" Smith)
The Last Judgment
(The man with the large nose)
That's Entertainment! III
((archive footage))
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
(Self)
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
(Self (archive footage))
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(Self (archive footage))
That's Entertainment, Part II
((archive footage))
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
(Self)
And the Oscar Goes To...
(Self (archive footage))
It's Showtime
(Self (archive footage))
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
(Self (archive footage))
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
(Self)
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
(Self)
Breakdowns of 1942
(Self)
The Rudolph, Frosty & Friends Sing Along
Murder at N.B.C.
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
(Self - Comedian (archive footage))
The Colgate Comedy Hour
(Self)
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
The Lucy Show
(Jimmy Durante)
The Hollywood Palace
(Self - Singer)
The Don Knotts Show
(Self)
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
(Self)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
(Self)
The Steve Allen Show
(Self)
The Oscars
(Self)
Summer Playhouse
The Jimmy Durante Show
(Self - Host)
Four Star Revue
(Host)
The Ed Sullivan Show
(Self)
The Pearl Bailey Show
(Self)
What's My Line?
(Self - Mystery Guest)
The Bob Hope Show
(Self)
The Colgate Comedy Hour
(Self - Cameo)
The Mothers-in-Law
(Jimmy Durante)