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Don Ameche
Birthday: May 31, 1908

Birth Place: Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Height: 5' 1"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Don Ameche. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Though his popularity rose and fell during his long career, American actor Don Ameche, born Dominic Amici in Kenosha, WI, was one of Hollywood's most enduring stars. He began his acting career in college, where he had been studying law. He had a natural gift for acting and got his first professional opportunity when he filled in for a missing lead in the stock theater production of Excess Baggage. After that, he forewent his law career and became a full-time theatrical actor. He also worked briefly in vaudeville beside Texas Guinan. Following that he spent five years as a radio announcer. He made his screen debut in a feature short, Beauty at the World's Fair (1933). Following this, Ameche moved to Hollywood where he screen-tested with MGM; they rejected him. In 1935, he managed to obtain a small role in Clive of India and this resulted in his signing a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox. Ameche, with his trim figure, pencil-thin mustache, and rich baritone voice was neither a conventionally handsome leading man nor the dashing hero type. Instead he embodied a wholesomeness and bland honesty that made him the ideal co-lead and foil for the more complex heroes. He played supporting roles for many years before he came into his own playing the leads in light romances and musicals such as Alexander's Rag Time Band (1938), where he demonstrated a real flair for romantic comedy. In 1939, Ameche played the title role in the classic biopic The Story of Alexander Graham Bell. The film was a tremendous success and for years afterward, fans quipped that it was he, not Bell who invented the telephone; for a time the telephone was even called an "ameche." He continued working steadily through the mid-'40s and then his film career ground to an abrupt halt. He returned to radio to play opposite Frances Langford in the long-running and popular series The Bickersons. During the 1950s he worked occasionally on television.He began appearing infrequently in low-budget films during the '60s and '70s, but did not make a comeback proper until 1983, when he was cast as a replacement for the ailing Ray Milland in the comedy Trading Places. The success of this film brought Ameche back in demand. In 1985, the aging actor received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his work as a retirement home Casanova in Cocoon. He followed up that role to even more acclaim in 1988's David Mamet-Shel Silverstein concoction Things Change, in which Ameche played the role of a impish shoemaker chosen to take the fall for a mob hit. Before his death in 1993, Ameche rounded out his career with brief but memorable performances in Oscar (1991) and Corrina, Corrina (1994).

Movie Credits
Corrina, Corrina (1994)
[ Ray Liotta ][ Brent Spiner ][ Larry Miller ][ Courtland Mead ]
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
[ Michael J. Fox ][ Frank Welker ][ Robert Hays ]
Sunstroke (1992)
[ Ray Wise ]
Folks! (1992)
[ Jon Favreau ][ Tom Selleck ][ Robert Pastorelli ][ Michael Murphy ]
Our Shining Moment (1991)
[ Jack Black ][ Seth Green ][ Jonathan Brandis ]
Oscar (1991)
[ Sylvester Stallone ][ Tim Curry ][ Kirk Douglas ][ Harry Shearer ][ Kurtwood Smith ]
Oddball Hall (1990)
[ Burgess Meredith ]
Cocoon: The Return (1988)
[ Steve Guttenberg ][ Wilford Brimley ][ Barret Oliver ][ Hume Cronyn ]
Things Change (1988)
[ William H Macy ][ William H. Macy ][ David Mamet ][ J.T. Walsh ][ Joe Mantegna ]
Coming to America (1988)
[ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Eddie Murphy ][ Cuba Gooding Jr. ][ James Earl Jones ][ John Landis ]
Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
[ Steven Spielberg ][ John Lithgow ][ Kevin Peter Hall ][ M. Emmet Walsh ][ David Suchet ]
Pals (1987)
[ George C Scott ][ George C. Scott ]
A Masterpiece of Murder (1986)
[ Bob Hope ]
Cocoon (1985)
[ Steve Guttenberg ][ Clint Howard ][ Wilford Brimley ][ Barret Oliver ][ Hume Cronyn ]
Trading Places (1983)
[ Eddie Murphy ][ Dan Aykroyd ][ Frank Oz ][ James Belushi ][ John Landis ]
Two for Julie/Aunt Hilly/The Duel (1981)
Gopher's Greatest Hits/Vaction, The/One Rose a Day (1979)
The Chinese Typewriter (1979)
[ Tom Selleck ][ William Daniels ]
Gidget Gets Married (1972)
[ Paul Lynde ]
Columbo: Suitable for Framing (1971)
Shepherd's Flock (1971)
[ Kenneth Mars ]
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
[ Ernest Borgnine ][ Tony Curtis ][ Brian Keith ][ John Fiedler ]
The Boatniks (1970)
[ Norman Fell ]
The Grass Is Always Greener (1969)
Shadow Over Elveron (1968)
[ Leslie Nielsen ]
Picture Mommy Dead (1966)
Keep Our Heritage Strong (1963)
A Fever in the Blood (1961)
[ Carroll O'Connor ][ Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ]
Phantom Caravan (1954)
Fire One (1954)
Slightly French (1949)
Sleep, My Love (1948)
[ Raymond Burr ]
That's My Man (1947)
So Goes My Love (1946)
Guest Wife (1945)
It's in the Bag! (1945)
[ Alma Reville ]
Greenwich Village (1944)
[ William Bendix ]
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
[ Harry Morgan ][ Dana Andrews ]
Happy Land (1943)
[ Harry Morgan ]
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Something to Shout About (1943)
Girl Trouble (1942)
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
[ Henry Fonda ]
That Night in Rio (1941)
Confirm or Deny (1941)
[ Roddy McDowall ][ Fritz Lang ]
The Feminine Touch (1941)
[ Robert Ryan ]
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941)
Moon Over Miami (1941)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
Four Sons (1940)
Lillian Russell (1940)
[ Henry Fonda ]
Swanee River (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
[ Henry Fonda ]
Midnight (1939)
[ Billy Wilder ]
The Three Musketeers (1939)
Gateway (1938)
Josette (1938)
[ Lon Chaney Jr. ]
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
[ Tyrone Power ][ Lon Chaney Jr. ][ Irving Berlin ]
Happy Landing (1938)
[ Lon Chaney Jr. ][ Cesar Romero ]
Love Is News (1937)
[ Tyrone Power ][ George Sanders ][ Lon Chaney Jr. ]
In Old Chicago (1937)
[ Tyrone Power ]
Love Under Fire (1937)
You Can't Have Everything (1937)
Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
One in a Million (1936)
Ladies in Love (1936)
[ Tyrone Power ]
Ramona (1936)
Sins of Man (1936)
Dante's Inferno (1935)
[ Spencer Tracy ]
Clive of India (1935)
[ Cesar Romero ]

Trivia

  • Brother of actor Jim Ameche.
  • Interred at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery (formerly St. Philomina's), Dubuque, Iowa. (Grave unmarked).
  • Father of six children: Ronald, Dominic, Thomas, Lonnie, Bonnie and Connie.
  • Portrayed Alexander Graham Bell in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) in 1939. In 1957, his brother, Jim Ameche, portrayed Bell in The Story of Mankind (1957).
  • Inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1992.
  • He became a major star on radio. His teaming with Frances Langford as "The Bickersons" is regarded as classic comedy on radio. "The Bickersons" were revived for a series or record albums.
  • Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald S. Smith, pg. 51-53 (article titled "The Bickersons"). New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
  • Master of ceremonies for the NBC-Red network radio program "The Chase and Sanborn Hour" (later "The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show") from 1937 to 1940.
  • Attended Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa
  • Calling the telephone the "Don Ameche" became popular American Slang in the 1930s and 40s due to his role as Alexander Graham Bell

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