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Jimmy Durante
New 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 org…
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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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2021
Frosty the evil snowman
Movie Music
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2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Movie Self - Comedian (archive footage)
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2017
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Movie Self
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2011
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Movie Himself
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2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Movie (archive footage)
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2002
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2001
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2000
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
Vaudeville
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Movie Self (Archival Footage)
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1994
That's Entertainment! III
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1988
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1988
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie (archive footage)
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1982
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie (archive footage)
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1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie (archive footage)
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1976
It's Showtime
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1974
That's Entertainment!
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1971
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
TV show
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1971
The Pearl Bailey Show
TV show Self
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1970
The Don Knotts Show
TV show Self
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1970
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1969
Frosty the Snowman
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1969
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
TV show Self
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1969
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Movie Theme Song Performance
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1968
The Movie Orgy
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1967
The Mothers-in-Law
TV show Jimmy Durante
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1966
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie Humpty Dumpty
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1966
Murder at N.B.C.
Movie
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1964
The Hollywood Palace
TV show Self
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1963
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie Smiler Grogan
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1963
The Jerry Lewis Show
TV show Self
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1962
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Movie Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
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1962
The Lucy Show
TV show Jimmy Durante
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1962
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Movie Self - Host
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1961
The Last Judgment
Movie The man with the large nose
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1960
Pepe
Movie Jimmy Durante
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1959
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Movie Self
