Imogene Coca

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1908-11-18 (93 years old)

Deathday

2001-06-02

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Imogene Coca

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 Pe...

Acting

1963

The Sound of Laughter

as Miss Klutz (Ballerina)

1963

Under the Yum-Yum Tree

as Dorkus Murphy

1987

The Little Match Girl

as Self - Host

1978

Rabbit Test

as Madam Marie

1986

1972

Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes

as Princess Jane Klockenlocher (voice)

1975

Too Easy to Kill

as Mrs. Bradshaw

1984

Nothing Lasts Forever

as Daisy Schackman

1989

Buy & Cell

as Reggie's Mother

1999

Television: The First Fifty Years

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

as Self (archive footage)

1937

Dime a Dance

as Esmeralda

1963

Promises! Promises!

as Woman Under Hair Dryer (uncredited)

1937

Bashful Ballerina

as Miss Klutz

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