Jimmy Durante (Actor)

Reviews of Jimmy Durante Movies

Looking for reviews of Jimmy Durante movies? Cinafilm has a total of 766 reviews across 28 movies.

Movies starring Jimmy Durante have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.

That's Entertainment! III - released in 1994 - is Jimmy Durante's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 24 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Jimmy Durante is Palooka - released in 1934 - with a score of 41% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

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 Girl", "The New Yorkers", "Strike Me Pink", "Jumbo", "Red Hot and Blue", and "Stars in Your Eyes". By 1936, he had appeared at the Palladium in London. Later he had his own radio and television shows, and was a featured headliner in night clubs. Biographer Gene Fowler wrote his biography, "Schnozzola". Joining ASCAP in 1941, he collaborated musically with Jackie Barnett and Ben Ryan, and his other popular song compositions include "I'm Jimmy That Well-Dressed Man", "I Know Darn Well I Can Do Without Broadway", "I Ups to Him and He Ups to Me", "Daddy Your Mamma Is Lonesome For You", "Umbriago", "Any State In the Forty-Eight", "Chidabee Chidabee Chidabee", and "I'm Jimmy's Girl".

Jimmy Durante has acted in films with Buster Keaton, Bess Flowers, Robert Young and Mickey Rooney.

Jimmy Durante has worked with these film directors: Richard Thorpe, Edward Sedgwick, Henry Koster and Gene Kelly.