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Don Ameche

Don Ameche

Actor · Born 1908-05-31 · Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

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Biography

Don Ameche born Dominic Felix Amici May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was a versatile and popular American film actor in the 1930s and '40s, usually as the dapper, mustached leading man. He was also popular as a radio master of ceremonies during this time. As his film popularity waned in the 1950s, he continued working in theater and some TV. His film career surged in a comeback in the 1980s with fine work as an aging millionaire in Trading Places (1983) and a rejuvenated oldster in Cocoon (1985). Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning American actor. Ameche, standing in at a height of 5' 11" (1.8 m) was born May 31, 1908 (Gemini) in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA as Dominic Felix Amici to mother, Barbara Edda (Hertel) and father, Felice Amici, a bartender. Has a younger brother Jim Ameche. His father was an Italian immigrant. His mother had German, English, Irish and Scottish ancestry. Americans pronounced his last name incorrectly in Italian ("Ah-mee-see"). So he changed it from "Amici" (correctly pronounced "Ah-mee-chee") into "Ameche", in order to keep the original Italian pronunciation. He had the nickname "The Latin Lover". Married Honore Prendergast on the 6th of December 1932. T…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Coming to America (1988) — Mortimer Duke / Homeless Man #2 (uncredited)
  2. Trading Places (1983) — Mortimer Duke
  3. Cocoon (1985) — Arthur Selwyn
  4. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) — Shadow (voice)
  5. Cocoon: The Return (1988) — Art Selwyn
  6. Columbo (1971) — Frank Simpson
  7. Harry and the Hendersons (1987) — Dr. Wallace Wrightwood
  8. Oscar (1991) — Father Clemente
  9. Corrina, Corrina (1994) — Grandpa Harry
  10. The Golden Girls (1985) — Brother Martin
  11. Heaven Can Wait (1943) — Henry Van Cleve
  12. The Love Boat (1977) — Stewart Coolidge
  13. Quincy, M.E. (1976) — Harry Whitehead
  14. Midnight (1939) — Tibor Czerny
  15. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
  16. Things Change (1988) — Gino
  17. Sleep, My Love (1948) — Richard W. Courtland
  18. McCloud (1970)
  19. In Old Chicago (1938) — Jack O'Leary
  20. Ellery Queen (1975) — Dr. Norman Marsh
  21. Petticoat Junction (1963) — Uncle George
  22. Folks! (1992) — Harry Aldrich
  23. Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) — Charlie Dwyer
  24. Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
  25. The Boatniks (1970) — Commander Taylor
  26. Down Argentine Way (1940) — Ricardo Quintana
  27. What's My Line? (1950) — Self
  28. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
  29. That Night in Rio (1941) — Larry Martin / Baron Manuel Duarte
  30. The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) — Alexander Graham Bell
  31. Moon Over Miami (1941) — Phil O'Neil (Credits) / Phil 'Mac' McNeil
  32. Picture Mommy Dead (1966) — Edward Shelley
  33. The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997) — Self (archive footage)
  34. Wing and a Prayer (1944) — Bingo Harper
  35. Guest Wife (1945) — Joseph Jefferson 'Joe' Parker
  36. Lillian Russell (1940) — Edward Solomon
  37. The Magnificent Dope (1942) — Dwight Dawson
  38. Burke's Law (1963) — Whitman Saunders
  39. Climax! (1954) — Sam Waterman
  40. Love Is News (1937) — Martin J. Canavan

Directed

  1. Julia (1968) — Director