Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
69
Gender
Male
Birthday
February 09, 1893 ( 87 years old )
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
James Francis Durante
The Schnoz
Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante
Durante
Джимми Дюранте
Джимми Дуранте
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".
Known For
Blondie of the Follies
1932-09-01The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963-11-07Palooka
1934-01-26The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941-12-24Frosty the Snowman
1969-12-07Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962-12-06Speak Easily
1932-08-13On an Island with You
1948-05-03Little Miss Broadway
1938-07-29