
Jimmy Durante
Known for: Acting
Born: February 9, 1893
Died: January 29, 1980
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 1…
Known for

Palooka
1934

Frosty the Snowman
1969

The Great Rupert
1950

Start Cheering
1938

Give a Man a Job
1933

Strictly Dynamite
1934

Land Without Music
1936

Student Tour
1934

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962

You're in the Army Now
1941
Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
1933

Speak Easily
1932

This Time for Keeps
1947

What! No Beer?
1933

The Passionate Plumber
1932

The Milkman
1950

George White's Scandals
1934

Meet the Baron
1933

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932

New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
1931

Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936

Plumber in love
1932

Sunday Showcase
1959

Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962

Little Miss Broadway
1938

The March of Time
1930

The Phantom President
1932

Hollywood Party
1934

Melody Ranch
1940

Carnival
1935

Blondie of the Follies
1932

On an Island with You
1948

It Happened in Brooklyn
1947

Roadhouse Nights
1930

Music for Millions
1944

Hell Below
1933

Two Sisters from Boston
1946

The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941

The Cuban Love Song
1931

Alice Through the Looking Glass
1966

Sally, Irene and Mary
1938

Hollywood on Parade
1932

Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
2000

The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
1959

Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
2011

It's Showtime
1976

Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970

Broadway to Hollywood
1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934

The Wet Parade
1932

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
1997
JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
2017
Murder at N.B.C.
1966

Two Girls and a Sailor
1944
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004

The Christmas Party
1931

Beau James
1957

The Last Judgment
1961

The All-Star Christmas Show
1958

Pepe
1960

Breakdowns of 1942
1942

Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002

The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
2001

Showbiz Goes to War
1982

That's Entertainment!
1974

That's Entertainment! III
1994

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019

Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984

Vaudeville
1997

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
1988
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971

The Lucy Show
1962

The Hollywood Palace
1964
The Don Knotts Show
1970
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
1969

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956

The Steve Allen Show
1956

The Oscars
1953
Summer Playhouse
1954
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954
Four Star Revue
1950

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971

What's My Line?
1950

The Bob Hope Show
1950

The Mothers-in-Law
1967

The Jerry Lewis Show
1963

The Movie Orgy
1968