Cast & creator
Jimmy Durante
Best known for What's My Line?, The Lucy Show, The Bob Hope Show
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".
Also known as: James Francis Durante, The Schnoz , Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante, Durante, Джимми Дюранте
80
film credits
20
television credits
97
1930–2021 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (100)
Showing 100 of 100 credits
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
The Lucy Show
Jimmy Durante
1962
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950The Bob Hope Show
Self (uncredited)
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self - Cameo
1950
The Steve Allen Show
Self
1956
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
1956
The Oscars
Self
1953
The Mothers-in-Law
Jimmy Durante
1967
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
1971
The Hollywood Palace
Self
1964The Jimmy Durante Show
Self - Host
1954The Don Knotts Show
Self
1970
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Smiler Grogan
1963The Pearl Bailey Show
Self
1971Summer Playhouse
1954
The Jerry Lewis Show
Self
1963
Frosty the Snowman
Narrator (voice)
1969Frosty the Snowman
Theme Song Performance
1969
Two Girls and a Sailor
Billy Kipp / Julian Kipp
1944
Monte Carlo or Bust!
Theme Song Performance
1969
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Anthony ('Pop') Wonder
1962
That's Entertainment, Part II
(archive footage)
1976
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1994
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Banjo
1941Bob Hope's World of Comedy
(archive footage)
1976
Start Cheering
Willie Gumbatz
1938
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
Self
1934
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
2019
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
1936
On an Island with You
Buckley
1948
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
1975
Two Sisters from Boston
'Spike'
1946Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Self
1932Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Self
1934
Showbiz Goes to War
(archive footage)
1982
Blondie of the Follies
Jimmy
1932
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1
Self (archive footage)
2001
It Happened in Brooklyn
Nick Lombardi
1947
Going Hollywood: The '30s
(archive footage)
1984
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Humpty Dumpty
1966Sunday Showcase
1959
Sally, Irene and Mary
Jefferson Twitchel
1938
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
It's Showtime
Self (archive footage)
1976
Breakdowns of 1942
Self
1942Checking Out: Grand Hotel
(archive footage)
2004
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Self - Host
1962
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
1970
Pepe
Jimmy Durante
1960
Little Miss Broadway
Jimmy Clayton
1938
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Self (Archival Footage)
1997
Hollywood Musicals of the 40's
Self (archive footage)
2000
Hell Below
Ptomaine' - Ships Cook
1933
You're in the Army Now
Homer "Jeeper" Smith
1941
This Time for Keeps
Ferdi Farro
1947
Hollywood Party
Jimmy Durante
1934
The Great Rupert
Mr. Louie Amendola
1950
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
1958
Music for Millions
Andrews
1944Four Star Revue
Host
1950Murder at N.B.C.
1966
Vaudeville
Self (archive footage)
1997JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala
Self
2017
Hollywood on Parade
Self
1932
The Cuban Love Song
O.O. Jones
1931Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
Self
1969
The Frank Sinatra Timex Show
Self
1959
George White's Scandals
Happy McGillicuddy
1934
Beau James
Jimmy Durante
1957
The Last Judgment
The man with the large nose
1961
Broadway to Hollywood
Jimmy
1933
New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford
Schnozzle
1931
The Milkman
Breezy Albright
1950
Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter
Himself
2011
What! No Beer?
Jimmy Potts
1933
The Wet Parade
Abe Shilling
1932
Meet the Baron
Joe McGoo
1933
The March of Time
Self
1930
Melody Ranch
Cornelius J. Courtney
1940
Plumber in Love
Tony
1932
The Passionate Plumber
Julius J. McCracken
1932
Student Tour
Hank Merman
1934
Land Without Music
Jonah J. Whistler
1936
The Phantom President
Curly
1932
Give a Man a Job
1933
Strictly Dynamite
Moxie
1934
Speak Easily
James
1932
Roadhouse Nights
Daffy (as Durante)
1930
Palooka
Knobby Walsh
1934
Carnival
Fingers
1935
The Christmas Party
Santa Claus (uncredited)
1931
Frosty the evil snowman
Music
2021Prohibition Newsreel No. 7
Self
1933