Jimmy Durante
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican actor, comedian and singer (1893-1980)
James Francis Durante was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s.
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Buster Keaton, Thelma Todd, and Durante in Speak Easily (1932)
With Garry Moore in the Durante-Moore Show (1943-1947)
Durante on The Jumbo Fire Chief Program, 1935
Residence of Jimmy Durante, Beverly Hills, California
Durante in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Jimmy and Margaret Durante's grave at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
Jimmy Durante's noseprint, handprint, and signature in front of the Grauman's Chinese TheatreListen
SpotifyFilmography 40
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Frosty the Snowman
The Man Who Came to Dinner
That's Entertainment!
Pepe
That's Entertainment, Part II
The Last Judgment
That's Entertainment! III
The Great Rupert
Speak Easily
The Movie Orgy
Billy Rose's Jumbo
It Happened in Brooklyn
On an Island with You
Little Miss Broadway
Hollywood Party
Hell Below
Two Girls and a Sailor
What! No Beer?
Blondie of the Follies
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Palooka
The Passionate Plumber
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Start Cheering
The Christmas Party
The Cuban Love Song
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Melody Ranch
George White's Scandals
You're in the Army Now
The Wet Parade
Two Sisters from Boston
Music for Millions
Broadway to Hollywood
This Time for Keeps
Beau James
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Meet the Baron
The Phantom President99 credits on file
Television 18
What's My Line?
The Lucy Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Oscars
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Steve Allen Show
The Bob Hope Show
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
The Hollywood Palace
The Mothers-in-Law
The Jerry Lewis ShowAwards 3
In their orbit 2
Connected to Jimmy 6
About this person
James Francis Durante was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola, and the word became his nickname.
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