ACTOR

Jimmy Durante

1893 - 1980

Jimmy Durante

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. He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola (Italianization of the American Yiddish slang word schnoz, meaning "big nose"), and the word became his nickname. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 31 in 2024). Jimmy Durante is the 4,691st most popular actor (down from 4,330th in 2024), the 7,438th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,351st in 2019) and the 2,151st most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jimmy Durante ranks 4,691 out of 13,578. Before him are Rose Leslie, Patrick Kilpatrick, Ben Chaplin, Millie Perkins, May Britt, and Ed Helms. After him are James Darren, Bill Smitrovich, Luke Hemsworth, Irina Alfyorova, Charles Shaughnessy, and Minami Takayama.

Most Popular Actors in Wikipedia

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Rose Leslie
1987 - Present
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 4,686
Patrick Kilpatrick
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 4,687
Ben Chaplin
1969 - Present
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 4,688
Millie Perkins
1938 - Present
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 4,689
May Britt
1933 - Present
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 4,690
Ed Helms
1974 - Present
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 4,691
Jimmy Durante
1893 - 1980
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 4,692
James Darren
1936 - 2024
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 4,693
Bill Smitrovich
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 4,694
Luke Hemsworth
1980 - Present
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 4,695
Irina Alfyorova
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 4,696
Charles Shaughnessy
1955 - Present
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 4,697
Minami Takayama
1964 - Present
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 4,698

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Jimmy Durante ranks 213. Before him are Gabrielle Petit, Romeo Bertini, Georges Buchard, Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, Urho Peltonen, and Harald Cramér. After him are Charley Chase, Tommaso Lequio di Assaba, Blind Blake, Georg Åberg, Gladys Davis, and Stasys Girėnas. Among people deceased in 1980, Jimmy Durante ranks 223. Before him are Sherm Clark, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Fumio Gotō, Rudolf Bürger, Philip Guston, and Tim Hardin. After him are Victor Sen Yung, Enrique Hertzog, Héctor Socorro, Jadwiga Jędrzejowska, Anna Jantar, and László Szollás.

Others Born in 1893

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Gabrielle Petit
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1893 - 1916
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 207
Romeo Bertini
ATHLETE
1893 - 1973
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 208
Georges Buchard
FENCER
1893 - 1987
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 209
Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia
POLITICIAN
1893 - 1917
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 210
Urho Peltonen
ATHLETE
1893 - 1951
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 211
Harald Cramér
MATHEMATICIAN
1893 - 1985
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 212
Jimmy Durante
ACTOR
1893 - 1980
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 213
Charley Chase
ACTOR
1893 - 1940
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 214
Tommaso Lequio di Assaba
ATHLETE
1893 - 1965
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 215
Blind Blake
MUSICIAN
1893 - 1934
HPI: 55.77
Rank: 216
Georg Åberg
ATHLETE
1893 - 1946
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 217
Gladys Davis
ATHLETE
1893 - 1965
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 218
Stasys Girėnas
PILOT
1893 - 1933
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 219