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Imogene Coca

Imogene Coca

Actor · Born 1908-11-18 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

Imogene Fernandez de Coca (November 18, 1908 – June 2, 2001) was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows. Starting out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, she studied ballet and wished to have a serious career in music and dance, graduating to decades of stage musical revues, cabaret and summer stock. Finally in her 40s she began a celebrated career as a comedienne in television, starring in six series and guesting on successful television programs from the 1940s to the 1990s. She was nominated for five Emmy awards for Your Show of Shows, winning Best Actress in 1951 and singled out for a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting in 1953. Coca was also nominated for a Tony Award in 1978 for On the Twentieth Century and received a sixth Emmy nomination at the age of 80 for an episode of Moonlighting. She possessed a rubbery face capable of the broadest expressions—Life magazine compared her to Beatrice Lillie and Charlie Chaplin, and described her characterizations as taking "people or situations suspended in their own precarious balance between dignity and absurdity, and push(ing) them over the cliff with one single, pointed g…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) — Aunt Edna
  2. Bewitched (1964)
  3. Moonlighting (1985) — Clara DiPesto
  4. Bobby's World (1990)
  5. The Brady Bunch (1969)
  6. Night Gallery (1970) — Wife (segment "The Merciful")
  7. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
  8. The Carol Burnett Show (1967) — Self - Guest
  9. Mama's Family (1983)
  10. Reading Rainbow (1983) — Self - Narrator (voice)
  11. Alice in Wonderland (1985) — Cook
  12. Nothing Lasts Forever (1984) — Daisy Schackman
  13. Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) — Dorkus Murphy
  14. What's My Line? (1950) — Self
  15. Monsters (1988) — The Old Woman
  16. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) — Self
  17. Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
  18. Rabbit Test (1978) — Madam Marie
  19. Love, American Style (1969) — Doctor's wife
  20. Promises! Promises! (1963) — Woman Under Hair Dryer (uncredited)
  21. The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) — Self
  22. This Is Your Life (1952) — Self
  23. Buy & Cell (1989) — Reggie's Mother
  24. The Merv Griffin Show (1962) — Self
  25. The Mike Douglas Show (1961) — Self
  26. Mel Brooks: Unwrapped (2018) — Self (archive footage)
  27. It's About Time (1966) — Shad
  28. A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978) — Self
  29. General Electric Theater (1953) — Virginia Odell
  30. The Steve Allen Show (1956) — Self - Guest Performer
  31. Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) — Miss Clavel
  32. The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981) — Granny's Maw
  33. Ten from Your Show of Shows (1973)
  34. Hollywood: The Movie (1996) — Roxy
  35. The Hollywood Palace (1964) — Self
  36. The Bob Hope Show (1950) — Self
  37. Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner (1981) — Molly - Bag Lady
  38. Your Show of Shows (1950) — Self - Regular Performer
  39. The Danny Kaye Show (1963) — Self
  40. Grindl (1963) — Grindl