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Frosty the Snowman

as Narrator (voice)

1969
Alice Through the Looking Glass

as Humpty Dumpty

1966
Billy Rose's Jumbo

as Anthony ('Pop') Wonder

1962
The Great Rupert

as Mr. Louie Amendola

1950
The Milkman

as Breezy Albright

1950
On an Island with You

as Buckley

1948
It Happened in Brooklyn

as Nick Lombardi

1947
This Time for Keeps

as Ferdi Farro

1947
Two Sisters from Boston

as 'Spike'

1946
Music for Millions

as Andrews

1944
Melody Ranch

as Cornelius J. Courtney

1940
Little Miss Broadway

as Jimmy Clayton

1938
Palooka

as Knobby Walsh

1934
Hollywood Party

as Jimmy Durante

1934
George White's Scandals

as Happy McGillicuddy

1934
Hell Below

as Ptomaine' - Ships Cook

1933
The Phantom President

as Curly Cooney

1932
The Cuban Love Song

as O.O. Jones

1931
Jimmy Durante Jimmy Durante

Birthday

1893-02-10

Place of Birth

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, 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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