Jimmy Durante
Also known as Schnozzola, James Francis Durante
American actor, comedian and singer (1893–1980)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1893
- Died
- 1980
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Jimmy Durante and his all-star show
- Jimmy Durante's greatest hits
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Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
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…
Known for
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast — Self - Comedian (archive footage)2019
- JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala — Self2017
- Don Knotts: Tied Up with Laughter — Himself2011
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel — (archive footage)2004
- Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2002
- The Best of Bob Hope: 50 Years of Laughter — Volume 1 — Self (archive footage)
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James Francis Durante (/dəˈrænti/ də-RAN-tee, Italian: [duˈrante]; February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) 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 (Italianization of the American Yiddish slang word schnoz, meaning "big nose"), and the word became his nickname.
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