Don Ameche

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-05-31 (85 years old)

Deathday

1993-12-06

Place of Birth

Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Don Ameche

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...

Acting

1983

Trading Places

as Mortimer Duke

1985

Cocoon

as Arthur Selwyn

1988

Cocoon: The Return

as Art Selwyn

1939

Midnight

as Tibor Czerny

1991

Oscar

as Father Clemente

1987

Harry and the Hendersons

as Dr. Wallace Wrightwood

1970

The Boatniks

as Commander Taylor

1941

Moon Over Miami

as Phil O'Neil (Credits) / Phil 'Mac' McNeil

1940

Down Argentine Way

as Ricardo Quintana

1938

Alexander's Ragtime Band

as Charlie Dwyer

1938

Happy Landing

as Jimmy Hall

1941

That Night in Rio

as Larry Martin / Baron Manuel Duarte

1992

Folks!

as Harry Aldrich

1939

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

as Alexander Graham Bell

1943

Heaven Can Wait

as Henry Van Cleve

1944

Wing and a Prayer

as Bingo Harper

1939

Hollywood Cavalcade

as Mike Connors

1988

1937

Love Is News

as Martin J. Canavan

1948

Sleep, My Love

as Richard W. Courtland

1941

The Feminine Touch

as John Hathaway

1941

Confirm or Deny

as 'Mitch' Mitchell

1946

So Goes My Love

as Hiram Stephen Maxim

1938

In Old Chicago

as Jack O'Leary

1943

1966

Picture Mommy Dead

as Edward Shelley

1940

Four Sons

as Chris Bern

1939

1937

One in a Million

as Bob Harris

1945

Guest Wife

as Joseph Jefferson 'Joe' Parker

1937

Love Under Fire

as Tracy Egan

1936

Ramona

as Alessandro

1939

Swanee River

as Stephen Foster

1961

A Fever in the Blood

as Senator Alex S. Simon

1944

Greenwich Village

as Kenneth Harvey

1940

Lillian Russell

as Edward Solomon

1936

Ladies in Love

as Dr. Rudi Imre

1990

Oddball Hall

as G. Paul Siebriese

1972

Gidget Gets Married

as Otis Ramsey

1987

Pals

as Fern Stobbs

1949

Slightly French

as John Gayle

1941

Kiss the Boys Goodbye

as Lloyd Lloyd

1943

Happy Land

as Lew Marsh

1947

That's My Man

as Joe Grange

1942

The Magnificent Dope

as Dwight Dawson

1937

1939

Land of Liberty

as Alexander Graham Bell (archive footage)

1938

Josette

as David Brassard Jr.

1938

Gateway

as Dick Court

1942

Girl Trouble

as Pedro Sullivan

1945

It's in the Bag!

as Don Ameche

1936

Sins of Man

as Karl Freyman / Mario Signarelli

1968

Shadow Over Elveron

as Justin Travers

1988

Coming to America

as Mortimer Duke / Homeless Man #2 (uncredited)

1967

Rings Around the World

as Host/Ringmaster

1986

1937

Fifty Roads to Town

as Peter Nostrand

1994

Corrina, Corrina

as Grandpa Harry

1997

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

as Self (archive footage)

1992

Sunstroke

as Jake

1979

The Chinese Typewriter

as Armand Beller

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