- (1999) TV commercial for Panasonic digital cameras (archive sound) (voiceover).
- (1961) Unsold pilot: He and Eddie Hodges starred in a pilot for a prospective series about a grandfather and grandson comedy/variety team, to be called "The Jimmy Durante/Eddie Hodges Show".
- (10/29/36-4/10/37) Stage: Appeared (as "Policy Pinkle") in "Red, Hot and Blue on Brodway. Musical comedy. Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; music / lyrics by Cole Porter; music arranged by Robert Russell Bennett; musical direction by Frank Tours; staged / directed by Howard Lindsay; choreographed by George Hale. Cast: Ethel Merman (as "'Nails' O'Reilly Duquesne"); Bob Hope (as "Bob Hale"); May Abbey (as "Mrs. Peabody"); Betty Allen (as "Betty"); Joanne Allen (as "Guest"); Frank Archer (as "First Marine"); Stella Bailey (as "Guest"); Bill Benner (as "'Ratface' Dugan"); Ruth Bond (as "Guest"); Jeanette Bradley (as "Guest"); Cecile Carey (as "Cecile"); Gloria Clare (as "Girl" / "Guest"); Bruce Covert (as "Second Marine"); Thurston Crane (as "Sonny Hadley"); Prentiss Davis (as "'Sure-Thing' Simpson"); Muriel Downey (as "Guest"); Althea Elder (as "Guest"); Ruth Ernst (as "Debutante"); Geoffrey Errett (as "Reporter" / "First Expressman"); Grace Albertson (as "Guest"); Ruth Gormley (as "Guest"); Grace Hartman (as "Grace"); Paul Hartman (as "Fingers"); Prudence Hayes (as "Guest"); Ethelyne Holt (as "Irene"); Beverly Hosier (as "Guest"); Bill Houston (portraying Reporter); Helen Hudson (portraying Debutante); Dorothy Jackson (portraying Guest); Marguerite James (portraying (as "Guest"), Bernard Jannsen (as "Louie the Louse"); Lucille Johnson (as "Lucille"); Evelyn Kelly (as "Debutante"); Karl Kohrs (as "Reporter" / "Second Expressman"); June Le Roy (as "Guest"); Nancy Lee (as "Guest"); Robert Leonard (as "Sen. Malvinsky"); Norman Lind (as "Reporter" / "Sergeant-at-Arms"); Mary Joan Martin (as "Guest"); Hazel Nevin (as 'Guest"); Marquita Nicolai (as "Debutante"); Annette Nine (as "Debutante"); Peggy Oden (as "Guest"); Forrest Orr (as "Warden of Larks Nest Prison" / "Sen. O'Shaughnessy); Jeanette Owens (as "Louella"); Lew Parker (as "Deputy Warden Mulligan" / "Sen. Musilovitch); Jessica Pepper (as "Debutante"); Kay Picture (as "Kay"); Houston Richards (as "Sen. Del Grasso" / "Decorator"); Leo Schippers (as "'Flap-Ears' Metelli"); Dorothy Schwank (as "Guest"); Jean Scott (as "Guest"); Eve Sorel (as "Debutante"); Frances Stewart (as "Guest"); Charlene Tucker (as "Guest"); Vivian Vance (as "Vivian"); Dorothy Vernon (as "Anne Westcott"); Arnita Wallace (as "Reporter"); Eleanor Wallace (as "Reporter"); Polly Walters (as "Peaches La Fleur:); Anne Wolf (as "Tiny"). Alvin Theatre (renamed the Neil Simon Theatre in 1983), New York City (183 total performances, including unknown previews).
- (1939) Stage: Appeared (as "Bill") in "Stars In Your Eyes" on Broadway. Musical comedy. Music by Arthur Schwartz. Material by J.P. McEvoy. Lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Music orchestrated by Don Walker (as Donald J. Walker) and Al Goodman (also Musical Director). Choreographed by Carl Randall. Directed by Joshua Logan. Majestic Theatre: 9 Feb 1939-27 May 1927 (127 performances). Cast: Ethel Merman (as "Jeanette Adair"), Richard Carlson (as "John Blake"), Mildred Natwick (as "Bess"), Tamara Toumanova, Anthony Albert, Alicia Alonso, Fernando Alonso, Paul Alvin, Savva Andreieff, Richard Barbee, Wally Cassell (billed as Walter Cassel), Gloria Clare, Peggy Conrad, Ambrose Costello, Davis Cunningham, Dan Dailey, Natasha Dana, Maria De Galanta, Sandy Dietz, Jane Everett, Basil Galahoff, Ted Gary, Dwight Godwin, Gail Grant, Marion Haynes, Thekla Horn, Johanne Hoven, Marjorie Johnstone, Edward Kane, Maria Karniloff, Nora Kaye, George Kiddon, Kathryn Mayfield, Rennie McEvoy, David Morris, Russel Protopoff, Frances Rands, Richard Reed, Audrey Reynolds, Newcombe Rice, Jerome Robbins (as "Gentleman of the Ballet"), Dawn Roland, Phyllis Roque, Robert Ross, Robert Shanley, Roger Stearns, Olga Suarez, Clinton Sundberg, Margaret Vasilieff, Walter Wagner, Mary Wickes (as "Voice Coach"), Mary Jane Williams, Nancy Wiman. Produced by Dwight Wiman.
- (1964) Album: "Hello Young Lovers" (Columbial).
- CD: "Jimmy Durante at the Copacabana" (Columbia Records)
- CD: "Club Durante" (USP)
- (1930) Stage: Appeared (as "Jimmie Deegan") in "The New Yorkers" on Broadway. Music / lyrics by Cole Porter. Material by Herbert Fields. Based on a Story by E. Ray Goetz (also producer) and Peter Arno. Music orchestrated by Hans Spialek. Musical Director: Al Goodman. Choreographed by George Hale. Directed by Monty Woolley. B.S. Moss' Broadway Theatre: 8 Dec 1930-2 May 1931 (168 performances). Cast: Iris Adrian (as "Dancing Girl"), Charles Angelo, Marjorie Arnold, Al Atkins, Scott F. Bates, Betty Bowen, Chester Bree, Meta Brewster, Donald Bryan, Fred C. Buck Jr., Lillian Burke, Marie Cahill, Helene Cambridge, Fred C. Campbell, Marian Carew, Josephine Carroll, Martha Carroll, Mary Carroll, Alvina Carson, Stuart Churchill, Lou Clayton, Elton C. Cockerill, Charles Conkling, Melva Cornell, Kathryn Crawford, George A. Culley, Billy Culloo, Vincent Curran, Inez de Plessis, Harry Donnelly, Bill Drewes, Herman Drewes, Frank Ericson, Mildred Espey, Harriet Fink, Francis Foster, Stella Friend, James J. Gilliland, Ralph Glover, Eileen Gorlet, Clare Hanlon, Stanley Harrison, Larry Hart Clayton, Charles E. Henderson, Arthur Horn, Frank W. Hower, Paul Huber, Eddie Jackson, Adele Kay, Nelson A. Keller, Charles King, Betty Knight, Hilda Knight, Don Knoblock, Maurice Lapue (as "Alfredo Gomez"; role eliminated after opening night), Larry Larkin, Evelyn Laurie, Ethel Lawrence, James Libbey, Nat London, Mickey MacKillop, Pansy Manness, Janet Marion, James R. McClintock, Donald McGinnis, Lou Ann Meredith, Marcelle Miller, Norman Moran, Will Morgan, Marion Nevans, Barrie Oliver, Ida Pearson, Ann Pennington, Blanche Poston, Oscar Ragland (as "Mildew"), Muriel Reed, Joseph Rogers, Jack Roth, Evelyn Saether, Blanche Satchell, D. Wade Schlegel, June Shafer, Irving Sherman, Barbara Smith, Paul Sterrett, Norma Taylor, Will I. Townsend, Jack Tucker, Eileen Wenzel, Frances Williams, Hope Williams, Buddy York, Tammany Young (as "Feet McGeehan"). Replacement actors: Richard Carle (as "Dr. Windham Wentworth"), Owen Coll (as "An Interne" / "Dr. Cortlandt Jenks"; Broadway debut), Elisabeth Welch.
- (1933) Stage: Appeared in "Strike Me Pink" on Broadway. Musical revue. Sketches by Lew Brown (also lyrics) and Ray Henderson (also music). Additional dialogue by Mack Gordon, Jack McGowan and Richard Jerome. Musical Director: Al Goodman. Music orchestrated by Edward Powell. Entire production supervised by Ray Henderson and Lew Brown. Sketches directed by Jack McGowan. Dances and ensembles staged by Seymour Felix. Majestic Theatre: 4 Mar 1933-10 Jun 1933 (122 performances). Cast: The Aber Twins, Mary Ann, Claiborne Arms, Roy Atwell, Gracie Barrie, Emmy Bock, Helane Brown, James Brown, Norma Butler, Barbara Caswell, Mary Chappelle, Hal Clyne, Frank Conlon, Wilma Cox, Dorothy Dare (as "Son's Wife"), Marguerite De Coursey, Ruth Dod, Dorothy Dodge, Bill Douglas, Johnny Downs (as "The Duncans' Son/Speed" -- "Roy Atwell Explains" / "Pat Ultra Modern" / "Strike Me Pink" Performer / "I Hate to Think..." Performer), Elsie Duffy, George Duke, Jimmy Durante (as "An Old Hollywood Custom" Performer / "Mr. Duncan, Speed -- Roy Atwell Explains" / "A Bit of Temperment" Performer / "Dinner at Ten" Performer / "Professor" / "Techno-Crazy" / "Otto" / "Design for Loving" / "Ooh, I'm Thinking" Performer / Husband in "External Triangle" / "Hollywood, Park Avenue and Broadway" Performer / "On Any Street" Performer), Geraldine Dvorak, Mabel Ellis, Louise Estes, Peggy Fish, Alex Fisher, Peggy Gallimore, Eleanor Garden, Eddie Garr, Ruth Grady, Lula Gray, Jack Harcourt, Pearl Harris, Ruth Harrison, David Johns, Daniel Johnson, Charlotte Joslin, Leoda Knapp, Leslie Laurence, Charles Lawrence, Hal Le Roy (as "Bobby"), Betty Lee, Clark Leston, Phyllis Lynd, Diana Lynn (as "Dancer"), Barbara MacDonald, Mary Joan Martin, Earl Mason, Rosalie McCallion, June McNulty, Jack Moore, Mary Moore, Jewel Morse, George Murray, Ricky Newell, Carolyn Nolte, Olaf Olson, Lillian Pertka, Leonore Pettit, Jack Ross, Jean Ryan, Jimmy Ryan, Ted Schultz, Louise Sheldon, Jackie Sherman, Madeline Southworth, Lupe Velez, Matthew Vodnoy, George Dewey Washington, Davenie Watson, Milton Watson, George Weeden, Roberta West, Gil White, Marguerite Wiley, Hope Williams. Produced by Ray Henderson, Lew Brown and Waxey Gordon.
- (1929) Stage: Appeared in (as "Snozzle", "Somber Eyes" / wrote additional musical and lyrics for "Show Girl" on Broadway. Musical comedy. Music by George Gershwin. Material by William Anthony McGuire (also director). Lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn [final Broadway credit during lifetime]. Based the novel by J.P. McEvoy. Musical Director: William Daly. Additional lyrics by Thomas Malie, Sidney Skolsky, W.H. Farrell. Additional music by W.H. Farrell. Featuring songs by J. Little. Ziegfeld Theatre: 2 Jul 1929-5 Oct 1929 (111 performances). Cast: Florence Allen, Virginia Allen, Jean Althan, Selma Althan, Jane Barry, Betty Bassett, Marcia Bell, Eddee Belmont, Caryl Bergman, Hazel Boffinger, Dorothy Bow, Bobby Brodsley, Pamela Bryant, Orine Bryne, Edna Bunte, Emily Burton, Dorothy Carrigan, Doris Carson, Peggy Carthew, Virginia Case, Lew Clayton, Blaine Cordner, Billie Cortez, Cleo Cullen, Dona Desne Curry, Gertrude Dahl, Dolores De Fina, Mildred Defina, Violet Dell, Katherine Downer, Doris Downes, Alma Drange, Sadie Duff, Kay English, Caja Eric, Austin Fairman (as "John Milton"), Eddie Foy Jr. (as "Denny Kerrigan"), Noel Francis (as "Peggy Ritz"), Virginia Frank, Vera Frederick, Janet Gibbard, Dolores Grant, Viola Hage, Ruth Hayden, Althea Heinly, Kathryn Hereford, Harriet Hoctor, Maurine Holmes, Eddie Jackson, Andy Jochim, Agatha Johann, Juliette Jones, Ruby Keeler (as "Dixie Dugan"), Mildred Klaw, Renee Landeau, Ada Landis, Camille Lanier, Ruth Love, Nick Lucas, Joseph Macauley, Mary MacDonald, Lottie Marcy, Doris May, Patricia McGrath, Frank McHugh (as "Jimmy Doyle"), Dorothy Morgan, Howard Morgan, Barbara Newberry, Evelyn Nichols, Dore Nodine, Lucille O'Connor, Pat O'Keefe, Georgia Payne, Lois Peck, Leonia Pennington, Vivian Porter, Beatrice Powers, Dolores Ray, Louise Raymond, Dorothy Ryan, Blanche Satchell, Matthew Smith, Wanda Stevenson, Mildred Swunke, Calvin Thomas, Mildred Turner, Sunny Van, Claire Wayne, Jean Wayne, Virginia Whitmore. Replacement actor: Dorothy Stone (as "Dixie Dugan"). Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. NOTES: (1) This mediocre production was greatly enhanced by pre-Broadway publicity when Al Jolson serenaded his wife, Ruby Keeler, during her dance to the Gershwin tune "Liza" from the audience on its opening night in Boston. This impromptu performance was greeted enthusiastically but Ms. Keeler withdrew from the show soon after it(5/10/44) Rads Broadway opening and replaced by Ms. Stone. (2) This would prove to be the last profitable Ziegfeld production.
- (1940) Stage: Appeared in "Keep Off the Grass", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy/revue. Music by Jimmy McHugh. Lyrics by Al Dubin and Howard Dietz. Sketches by Mort Lewis, Parke Levy, Alan Lipscott, S. Jay Kaufman and Norman Panama & Melvin Frank. Music orchestrated by Don Walker. Vocal arrangements by Anthony R. Morelli. Miss O'Brien's arrangements by Arthur Wilson. Scenic / Costume Design by Nat Karson. Stage Directed by Frederick De Cordova. Book directed by Eddie Dowling. Choreographed by George Balanchine. Broadhurst Theatre: 23 May 1940-29 Jun 1940 (44 performances). Cast: Larry Adler (as "The Old Park Bench" Singer / "Toscanini, Stokowski and Me" Assistant"), Ray Arnett, Billie Bernice, Mimi Berry, Blondie (as "Dorothy Thompson / Misinformation, Please"), Peanuts Bohn, Ray Bolger (as "Crazy as a Loon" Singer / Dancer / Thirsty Man / The Fountain / "A Latin Tune, A Manhattan Moon, and You Singer / "A Latin Tune, A Manhattan Moon, and You" Dancer / "Rhett, Scarlett & Ashley" Singer / "Old Jitterbug" Singer / "Old Jitterbug" Dancer / "Raffles" Dancer / The Tiger / Hormones / "This is Winter" Dancer"), Betty Bruce, Virginia Burke, Martha Burnett, Imogen Carpenter, Ilka Chase (as "She / Romantique / Thirsty Woman / The Fountain / Juliet / Shakespeare's-A-Poppin / "Rhett, Scarlett & Ashley" Singer / Art Lover / Museum Piece"), Gloria Clare, Harriet Clarke, John Coy, Margie Dale, Maude Davis, Bela de Tuscan, Joanna de Tuscan, Fred Deming, Helen Devlin, Henry Dick, La Motte Dodson, Jimmy Durante (as "Dr. Kildare / The Tree Doctor / The Fugitive / A Fugitive From Esquire / Clifton Fadiman / Misinformation, Please / McSwindle / Shakespeare's-A-Poppin / "Rhett, Scarlett & Ashley" Singer / Guide / Museum Piece / "Toscanini, Stokowski and Me" Conductor / Mulligan / Hormones"), Hugh Ellsworth, Esta Elman, Jane Froman, Gloria Gaffey, Peggy Gallimore, Jackie Gleason (as "The Cabby's Serenade" Singer / Dr. Christian / The Tree Doctor / The Cop / The Fountain / The Valet / A Fugitive From Esquire / "The Old Park Bench" Singer / Tybalt / Shakespeare's-A-Poppin / Art Lover / Museum Piece / "Toscanini, Stokowski and Me" Assistant / A Salesman / Hormones"), Jiggs (as "F.P.A. / Misinformation, Please"), Emmett Kelly (as "The Cabby's Serenade" Singer / "The Old Park Bench" Singer / Art Lover / Museum Piece / La Motte Dodson's Monkeys Performer"), Ann Lass, Lynn Lawrence, June Le Roy, 'Jose Limon' (as "Performer"), Peggy Littlejohn, Louie (as "Oscar Levant / Misinformation, Please"), Lois Martin, Mary Joan Martin, John McAuley, Margery Moore, Hal Neiman, Virginia O'Brien, Sunnie O'Dea, Patsy (as "Ann Sheridan / Misinformation, Please"), Percy (as "Gypsy Rose Lee"), Jane Gray Petri, Nan Rae, Jerry Robbins (as "Dancing Young Man"), Robert Shackleton, Jerry Shepherd, Bob Sidney, Jane Starner, Aileen Stone, Sylvia Stone, Arnold Saint Subber (as "Bootblack / The Fountain / Art Lover"), Frances Tannehill (as "Park Stroller / The Fountain / Bird Lover / Birds / The Morelli Singers"), Lee Tannen, The Toreadors, Daphne Vane, Sid Walker, Mimi Walthers, Don Weissmuller. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
- (1935) Stage: Appeared (as "Claudius R. Bowers") in "Jumbo", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy / puppets. Music / lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Choreographed by Allan K. Foster and Marjery Fielding. Directed by John Murray Anderson and George Abbott. Hippodrome Theatre: 16 Nov 1935-18 Apr 1936 (233 performances). Cast: Dave Adams, Dave Ballard, Barbette, Jack Barnes, Big Rosie, Donald Black, Tom Breen, Helen Brooks, Willard Dashiell, Charles De Camo, Josie DeMotte, Dr. Ostermeier's "Doheos", Lipman Duckat, Lenze Duo, Sybil Elaine (as "Little Girl"), Lynn Eldredge, William J. Ferry, Roger Gerry, Gloria Grafton (as "Mickey Considine"), Gene Greenlaw, Grace Elizabeth Hanneford, Poodles Hanneford (as "Poodles"), Helen Harvey, Harry Jackson, Mary Jackson, Julius Johnson, Robert Johnson, A.P. Kaye (as "Mr. Jellico"), Tiny Kline, Karl Kosicsky, John Kuebler, Arthur La Fleur, Henry La Marr, Minnie LaPell, Bob Lawrence, Jack Leslie, Walter Lewis, Tom Lomas, Jim Mardy, W.J. McCarthy, Ray Miller, Victoria Miller, Donald Novis, William Parker, Jack Phillips, A. Robins, William Selig, Arthur Sherwood, Arthur Sinclair, Fred Spear, Takayama, The Kimris, The Nazfys, The Stonleys, Lomas Troupe, Olivette Tyana, Frances Van Ritter, George Watts, Solon West (as "Razorback"), Cliff Whitcombe, Philip Wood. Produced by Billy Rose.
- (2010) TV commercial for FarmRich snacks (archive sound: "Make Someone Happy") (voiceover).
- (2010) TV commercial for Vodafone Mobile Ireland (archive sound: "Make Someone Happy") (voiceover).
- (2012) TV commercial for Hotels.com (archive sound: "Make Someone Happy") (voiceover).
- (5/10/44) Radio: Appeared on "The Orson Welles Almanac" (also known as Radio Almanac and The Orson Welles Comedy Show) radio show, which was broadcast from the U.S. Army Air Force Center, Santa Monica, CA, also with Aurora Miranda. The weekly skit was entitled "Woodrow Wilson". This is considered a "lost" episode, as there is no known surviving recording as of 2014.
- (1966) Album: "One of Those Songs" (Warner Bros.).
- (9/10/33-11/12/33) Radio: Regular on Eddie Cantor's "The Chase and Sanborn Hour," on NBC Radio Network.
- (1967) Album: "Songs for Sunday" (Warner Bros.).
- (1943-47) Radio: "The Durante-Moore Show" on the radio with Garry Moore.
- (10/14) TV commercial, "Monopoly® Millionaires Club," for the Florida Lottery (archive sound: "Make Someone Happy") (voiceover).
- (1965) Album: "Jimmy Durante's Way of Life..." (Warner Bros.).
- (1963) Album: "September Song" (Columbia).
- (1959) Album: "At the Piano-In Person" (Columbia Records).
- (October 1, 1947-early 1950) Radio: "The Jimmy Durante Show".
- (2008) TV commercial for the Acura MDX (archive sound: "Make Someone Happy") (voiceover).
- Album: "Jimmy Durante at the Copacabana" (Roulette Records).
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