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
- 12 wins & 4 nominations total

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Known for

Spencer Tracy, Peter Falk, Jim Backus, Milton Berle, Norman Fell, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Ben Blue, Joe E. Brown, Sid Caesar, Alan Carney, Chick Chandler, Barrie Chase, Lloyd Corrigan, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Selma Diamond, Paul Ford, Stan Freberg, Ethel Merman, Dorothy Provine, Phil Silvers, and Terry-Thomas in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

7.5

Smiler Grogan

1963

This Time for Keeps

5.7

Ferdi Farro

1947

Roadhouse Nights

5.5

Daffy(as Durante)

1930

The Cuban Love Song

5.5

O.O. Jones

1931

Credits

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Actor

Howdy
7.4
TV Movie
- 1970
Alice Through the Looking Glass
5.9
TV Movie
- Humpty Dumpty
- 1966
The Lucy Show
7.2
TV Series
- Jimmy Durante
- 1966
Summer Playhouse
7.5
TV Series
- Mimmy Banister
- 1964
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
7.5
- Smiler Grogan
- 1963
Billy Rose's Jumbo
6.1
- Anthony 'Pop' Wonder
- 1962
The Danny Thomas Show
7.1
TV Series
- Uncle Jimmy Durante
- 1961
The Last Judgment
6.5
- L'uomo dal grande naso
- 1961
Pepe
5.4
- Jimmy Durante
- 1960
Beau James
6.7
- Jimmy Durante (uncredited)
- 1957
The Milkman
6.6
- Breezy Albright
- 1950
The Great Rupert
6.4
- Mr. Louie Amendola
- 1950
On an Island with You
5.9
- Buckley
- 1948
This Time for Keeps
5.7
- Ferdi Farro
- 1947
It Happened in Brooklyn
6.5
- Nick Lombardi
- 1947

Music Department

Soundtrack

Deadpool & Wolverine
7.6
- performer: "I'll Be Seeing You"
- 2024
Orphan: First Kill
5.9
- performer: "The Glory of Love"
- 2022
I Want You Back
6.5
- performer: "The Glory of Love"
- 2022
New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization
7.6
- writer: "Did You Ever Have the Feeling That You Wanted to Go?"
- 2021
I Know This Much Is True
8.1
TV Mini Series
- performer: "I'll See You In My Dreams" (uncredited)
- 2020
Joker
8.3
- performer: "Smile"
- 2019
Veronica Mars
8.3
TV Series
- performer: "Young at Heart" (uncredited)
- 2019
Everything Is Copy
7.4
- performer: "Make Someone Happy"
- 2015
Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews
6.8
TV Series
- performer: "Make Someone Happy"
- 2011
Orphan
7.0
- performer: "The Glory of Love"
- 2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
8.3
Video
- 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)
- 2009
American Masters
8.2
TV Series
- performer: "The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart"
- 2007
The Notebook
7.8
- performer: "I'll Be Seeing You"
- 2004
Jimmy Durante: The Great Schnozzola
8.1
TV Movie
- 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"
- 2001
Family Ties
7.4
TV Series
- performer: "As Time Goes By" (uncredited)
- 2000

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The Big Scary 'S' Word

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On an Island with You

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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Trivia
Dropped out of school in the eighth grade and a couple of years later played ragtime piano for a living, taking jobs wherever he could, including bars, cabarets and whorehouses. He became known for a time as "Ragtime Jimmy".

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.