Jimmy Durante(1893-1980)

Actor
Music Department
Soundtrack

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The Big Scary 'S' Word (2020)

First wife Jeanne died in 1943. Wed second wife, Marjorie Little after 16 year courtship when she was 39 and he 67 Marjorie Little had been the hatcheck girl at the Copacabana. Durante and his second wife adopted a baby girl, Cecelia Alicia on Christmas day 1961. Durante doted on "CeCe" until his death.

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Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 5 wins & 4 nominations total

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Jimmy Durante and Marion Davies in Blondie of the Follies (1932)

Jimmy Durante and Louise Fazenda in The Cuban Love Song (1931)

Jimmy Durante in It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)

Jimmy Durante, William Cagney, Tom Dugan, and Joseph W. Girard in Palooka (1934)

Jimmy Durante and Stuart Erwin in Palooka (1934)

Jimmy Durante, Jimmy Conlin, Terry Moore, and Queenie Smith in A Christmas Wish (1950)

Jimmy Durante, Fred Kohler, Fuller Mellish Jr., Helen Morgan, and Charles Ruggles in Roadhouse Nights (1930)

Jimmy Durante and Charles Butterworth in Student Tour (1934)

Known for:

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

7.5

Smiler Grogan

1963

The Cuban Love Song

5.5

O.O. Jones

1931

The Man Who Came to Dinner

7.5

Banjo

1942

Sleepless in Seattle

6.8

Soundtrack("As Time Goes By", "Make Someone Happy")

1993

Credits

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Actor

Howdy
- TV Movie
- 1970
Alice Through the Looking Glass
- Humpty Dumpty
- TV Movie
- 1966
The Lucy Show
- Jimmy Durante
- TV Series
- 1966
Summer Playhouse
- Mimmy Banister
- TV Series
- 1964
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Smiler Grogan
- 1963
Billy Rose's Jumbo
- Anthony 'Pop' Wonder
- 1962
Make Room for Daddy
- Uncle Jimmy Durante
- TV Series
- 1961
The Last Judgment
- The man with the large nose
- 1961
Pepe
- Jimmy Durante
- 1960
Beau James
- Jimmy Durante (uncredited)
- 1957
The Milkman
- Breezy Albright
- 1950
A Christmas Wish
- Mr. Louie Amendola
- 1950
On an Island with You
- Buckley
- 1948
This Time for Keeps
- Ferdi Farro
- 1947
It Happened in Brooklyn
- Nick Lombardi
- 1947

Music Department

Soundtrack

Orphan: First Kill
- performer: "The Glory of Love"
- 2022
I Want You Back
- performer: "The Glory of Love"
- 2022
I Know This Much Is True
- performer: "I'll See You In My Dreams" (uncredited)
- TV Mini Series
- 2020
Joker
- performer: "Smile"
- 2019
Veronica Mars
- performer: "Young at Heart" (uncredited)
- TV Series
- 2019
Everything Is Copy
- performer: "Make Someone Happy"
- 2015
Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews
- performer: "Make Someone Happy"
- TV Series
- 2011
Orphan
- performer: "The Glory of Love"
- 2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
- performer: "I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway", "Inka Dinka Doo"
- writer: "I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway", "Inka Dinka Doo" (uncredited)
- Video
- 2009
American Masters
- performer: "The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart"
- TV Series
- 2007
The Notebook
- performer: "I'll Be Seeing You"
- 2004
Jimmy Durante: The Great Schnozzola
- performer: "C'est Magnifique", "You Gotta Start Off Each Day with a Song", "It's Da Nose's Birthday", "I Refuse to Wear a Beret", "Just Put Yourself in My Hands", "September Song"
- writer: "You Gotta Start Off Each Day with a Song", "It's Da Nose's Birthday", "I Refuse to Wear a Beret"
- TV Movie
- 2001
Family Ties
- performer: "As Time Goes By" (uncredited)
- TV Series
- 2000
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
- music: "Toscanini, Stokowski and Me"
- performer: "Hop, Skip, Jump and Slide", "Toscanini, Stokowski and Me"
- TV Movie
- 1997
La grande magia di David Copperfield
- performer: "Young at Heart"
- TV Special
- 1994

In-development projects at IMDbPro

Videos9

The Big Scary 'S' Word

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On an Island with You

Trailer 3:29

It Happened in Brooklyn

Trailer 3:15

The Man Who Came To Dinner

Trailer 0:43

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer/Frosty The Snowman/Santa Claus Is Coming To Town/The Little Drummer Boy

Personal details

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Alternative names
- Jimmy 'Schnozzle' Durante
Height
- 5′ 8¼″ (1.73 m)
Born
- February 10, 1893
- New York City, New York, USA
Died
- January 29, 1980
- Santa Monica, California, USA(pneumonia)
Spouses
Children
- CeCe Durante-Bloum
Other works
TV commercial for Panasonic digital cameras (archive sound) (voiceover).
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Did you know

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Trivia
A legal challenge to his adoption of daughter CeCe late in life, on the grounds that he was too old to care for such a young child, was dismissed by a judge, who said, "I've heard this man sing 'Young at Heart.'".

Quotes
[on his funny looks as a child] I'd go home [from school] and cry. I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, crossed eyes, or their stuttering.