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
Blondie of the Follies
The Movie Orgy
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Palooka
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Frosty the Snowman
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Speak Easily
On an Island with You
Little Miss Broadway
This Time for Keeps
The Great Rupert
It Happened in Brooklyn
Showbiz Goes to War
Roadhouse Nights
Two Girls and a Sailor
What! No Beer?