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 form ... ed 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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The Lucy Show
as Jimmy Durante
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
The Mothers-in-Law
as Jimmy Durante
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1967
The Jimmy Durante Show
as Self - Host
Episodes: 48
First Aired: Oct 02, 1954
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
Episodes: 14
First Aired: Sep 10, 1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Jun 20, 1948
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Sep 26, 1969
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 05, 1956
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Feb 02, 1950
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Apr 09, 1950
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 01, 1971
The Hollywood Palace
as Self - Singer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 04, 1964
The Don Knotts Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1970
The Steve Allen Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 24, 1956
The Oscars
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 19, 1953
Summer Playhouse
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 06, 1954
Four Star Revue
as Host
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1950
The Pearl Bailey Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 23, 1971
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self - Cameo
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1950
The Bob Hope Show
as Self (uncredited)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 09, 1950
The Jerry Lewis Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 1963
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