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

Notable Roles

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Blondie of the Follies

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The Movie Orgy

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

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Palooka

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The Man Who Came to Dinner

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Frosty the Snowman

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Billy Rose's Jumbo

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Speak Easily

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On an Island with You

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Little Miss Broadway

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This Time for Keeps

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The Great Rupert

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It Happened in Brooklyn

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Showbiz Goes to War

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Roadhouse Nights

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Two Girls and a Sailor

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What! No Beer?

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The Passionate Plumber