Donald Crisp

He died from a cerebral haemorrhage in Van Nuys, California. Jimmy Durante died in Santa Monica, California of pneumonia, and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. Donald Crisp has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to Motion Pictures, at 1620 Vine St. Durante had a nationally broadcast radio variety show; in the 1950s he had a television show as well. He continued making movie appearances through 1963 and television appearances until 1970. He was married to the screenwriter Jane Murfin from 1932 until 1944. He was featured in a series of comedy motion pictures paired with Buster Keaton. His more than 150 films include Broken Blossoms (1919), The Black Pirate (1926), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Jezebel (1938), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Knute Rockne, All American (1940), Lassie Come Home (1943), The Uninvited (1944), National Velvet (1944)The Valley of Decision (1945) Pollyanna (1960) and Greyfriars Bobby (1961). In the show, a policeman stops him while leading a live elephant and asks "What are you doing with that elephant?" Durante stopped the show by saying "Elephant? What elephant?".

With the advent of talking pictures, Crisp established a career as a versatile character actor, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the Welsh father in How Green Was My Valley (1941). In 1935 he starred in Billy Rose's spectacle, "Jumbo". Although he directed his last film in 1930, the Directors Guild of America voted him a Life Member Award in 1957. He had big hit in 1934 with his composition Inka Dinka Do, a novelty number he sang and played piano on, and which became his signature song. During the silent film era, he also directed comedy films, and dramas such as the 1916 version of Ramona. In the mid 1920s he became a star on Vaudeville and radio with his music & comedy trio Clayton Jackson & Durante (with Lou Clayton and Eddie Jackson); despite third billing Durante was the star of the act. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation in 1915. About 1917 he joined one of the first jazz bands in New York, The Original New Orleans Jazz Band (all other musicians were from New Orleans). Durante's outgoing personality and ability to "sell" a number to the audience started attracting greater attention, and by 1920 the band was renamed Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band.

W. In his youth Durante worked as pianist and entertainer in New York city, nickmaned "Ragtime Jimmy". Born George William Crisp in London, England, he began his film acting career in 1908, and appeared in D. He dropped out of school in eighth-grade to play ragtime piano. Donald Crisp (July 27, 1880 – May 25, 1974) was a film actor and director. Jimmy Durante was born New York City. He was noted for his large nose which he frequently made jokes about, which earned him the nickname Schnozzola.

Durante was a pianist, actor, comedian, as well as a singer with a distinctive hoarse voice with a strong working class New York City accent. James Francis "Jimmy" Durante (February 10, 1893 - January 29, 1980) was an American entertainer, one of the most popular and recognized personalities of the 1920s-1960s.