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Jimmy Durante

(1893-1980)
American actor, comedian and singer
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James Francis Durante (də-RAN-tee, 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.

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Born James Francis Durante
10 February 1893
New York City, New York, USA
Died
29 January 1980 (aged 86)
Santa Monica, California, USA
Zodiac Aquarius
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