ACTOR

Jimmy Durante

1893 - 1980

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James Francis Durante ( 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jimmy Durante has received more than 3,618,398 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jimmy Durante is the 4,334th most popular actor (down from 4,141st in 2019), the 6,352nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,239th in 2019) and the 1,940th most popular American Actor.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.67

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  • 4.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jimmy Durante ranks 4,334 out of 13,578. Before him are Anthony Denison, Clint Walker, Connie Britton, Susan Clark, Alan Ritchson, and Nita Naldi. After him are Michael Lerner, Mischa Auer, Leticia Calderón, Freddie Bartholomew, Patrick Malahide, and Jan Nowicki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Jimmy Durante ranks 203. Before him are Marcel Minnaert, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Eduard Čech, Marguerite Broquedis, Aleksei Losev, and Blind Blake. After him are Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk, Frans Blom, Chang Taek-sang, Gummo Marx, Ina Claire, and Nurul Amin. Among people deceased in 1980, Jimmy Durante ranks 204. Before him are Helmut Käutner, Gaetano Belloni, Héctor Socorro, Jim Fouché, Louis Daquin, and Haydée Santamaría. After him are Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Simonne Mathieu, Vicente de la Mata, Willi Forst, Mikhail Lavrentyev, and Heikki Liimatainen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jimmy Durante ranks 6,352 out of 20,380. Before him are Louis Bromfield (1896), Clint Walker (1927), Skeeter Davis (1931), Connie Britton (1967), Alan Ritchson (1982), and Nita Naldi (1894). After him are Paul Anderson (1932), Michael Lerner (1941), Mary McCarthy (1912), Priscilla Lane (1915), Masten Gregory (1932), and Bernard Nathanson (1926).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Jimmy Durante ranks 1,940. Before him are Charmian Carr (1942), Anthony Denison (1949), Clint Walker (1927), Connie Britton (1967), Alan Ritchson (1982), and Nita Naldi (1894). After him are Michael Lerner (1941), Priscilla Lane (1915), Jane Greer (1924), Barbara La Marr (1896), Hunter Tylo (1962), and Lexington Steele (1969).

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Television and Movie Roles

Frosty the Snowman
Narrator (voice)
A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colder climate, Frosty and Karen, a young girl who he befriends, stow away on a freight train headed for the north pole. Little do they know that the magician is following them, and he wants his hat back!
Dec 7th 19697 / 10
The Great Rupert
Mr. Louie Amendola
Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel - not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever.
Mar 1st 19505.8 / 10
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Banjo
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
Dec 24th 19416.844 / 10