Jimmy Durante
Acting
Born February 9, 1893 · New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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, a…
Known For · 40 titles
The Bob Hope Show
The Lucy Show
What's My Line?
The Steve Allen Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Oscars
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
The Mothers-in-Law
The Hollywood Palace
The Jimmy Durante Show
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The Don Knotts Show
Summer Playhouse
The Pearl Bailey Show
Frosty the Snowman
It Happened in Brooklyn
The Movie Orgy
That's Entertainment!
That's Entertainment! III
That's Entertainment, Part II
Two Girls and a Sailor
Start Cheering
The Jerry Lewis Show
Brasileiros em Hollywood
The Last Judgment
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Vaudeville
The Great Rupert
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Little Miss Broadway
What! No Beer?
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Breakdowns of 1942
Blondie of the Follies
It's Showtime
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Pepe
Sunday Showcase