Don Ameche
Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA — May 31 1908• Died Dec 06 1993
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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. A…
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Don Ameche's Credits
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Columbo
Frank Simpson
The Love Boat
Stewart Coolidge
Quincy, M.E.
Harry Whitehead
Climax!
Sam Waterman
The Golden Girls
Brother Martin
Petticoat Junction
Uncle George
Burke's Law
Whitman Saunders
McCloud
What's My Line?
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Alias Smith and Jones
Ellery Queen
Dr. Norman Marsh
Trading Places
Mortimer Duke
The Greatest Show on Earth
Collie McCullough
Coming to America
Mortimer Duke / Homeless Man #2 (uncredited)
Julia
Directing
DuPont Show of the Month
Harry Graves
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Shadow (voice)
Cocoon
Arthur Selwyn
Oscar
Father Clemente
The Lux Show
Self
Good Heavens
Sleep, My Love
Richard W. Courtland
Night of 100 Stars
Self
Corrina, Corrina
Grandpa Harry
Cocoon: The Return
Art Selwyn
Folks!
Harry Aldrich
Harry and the Hendersons
Dr. Wallace Wrightwood
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
Heaven Can Wait
Henry Van Cleve
That's My Man
Joe Grange
Happy Landing
Jimmy Hall
Midnight
Tibor Czerny
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Swanee River
Stephen Foster
Things Change
Gino
Girl Trouble
Pedro Sullivan
Sins of Man
Karl Freyman / Mario Signarelli
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Col. Flanders
Love Is News
Martin J. Canavan
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Charlie Dwyer
Happy Land
Lew Marsh
Moon Over Miami
Phil O'Neil (Credits) / Phil 'Mac' McNeil
You Can't Have Everything
George Macrae
That Night in Rio
Larry Martin / Baron Manuel Duarte
Pals
Art Riddle
Ladies in Love
Dr. Rudi Imre
Greenwich Village
Kenneth Harvey
In Old Chicago
Jack O'Leary
Wing and a Prayer
Bingo Harper
Land of Liberty
Alexander Graham Bell (archive footage)
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Lloyd Lloyd
The Magnificent Dope
Dwight Dawson
The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan
A Fever in the Blood
Senator Alex S. Simon
Hollywood Cavalcade
Mike Connors
Guest Wife
Joseph Jefferson 'Joe' Parker
Josette
David Brassard Jr.
So Goes My Love
Hiram Stephen Maxim
Down Argentine Way
Ricardo Quintana
Picture Mommy Dead
Edward Shelley
The Feminine Touch
John Hathaway
Gidget Gets Married
Otis Ramsey
It's in the Bag!
Don Ameche
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing
(archive footage)
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8
Don Ameche
Rings Around the World
Host/Ringmaster
A Masterpiece of Murder
Frank Aherne
Slightly French
John Gayle
Gateway
Dick Court
Coke Time with Eddie Fisher
Sunstroke
Jake
The Boatniks
Commander Taylor
Something to Shout About
Ken Douglas
Our Shining Moment
John 'Papa' McGuire Sr.
Ramona
Alessandro
Shadow Over Elveron
Justin Travers
Lillian Russell
Edward Solomon
The Chinese Typewriter
Armand Beller
Oddball Hall
G. Paul Siebriese
Four Sons
Chris Bern
Confirm or Deny
'Mitch' Mitchell
Love Under Fire
Tracy Egan
One in a Million
Bob Harris
Fifty Roads to Town
Peter Nostrand
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults
Self (archiveFootage)