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Image info
| Artist | NBC Television |
|---|---|
| Credit | eBay item photo front photo back |
| License | pd |
| Desc | Photo of Don Ameche from the television program International Showtime. |
| Usage | Public domain |
American actor
Don Ameche is ...
Dead
| Born | 31 May 1908 in Kenosha |
|---|---|
| Died | 6 December 1993 in Scottsdale |
| Age | 85 years, 7 months |
| Cause | prostate cancer |
| Sex or gender | male |
|---|---|
| Country of citizenship | United States of America |
| Manner of death | natural causes |
| Occupation | film director, stage actor and film actor |
| Nominated for | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
About Don Ameche
Don Ameche (; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor and voice artist. After playing in college shows, stock, and vaudeville, he became a major radio star in the early 1930s, which led to the offer of a movie contract from 20th Century Fox in 1935. As a handsome, debonaire leading man in 40 films over the next 14 years, he was a popular star in comedies, dramas, and musicals. In the 1950s he worked on Broadway and in television, and was well known as the host of NBC's International Showtime from 1961 to 1965. Returning to film work in his later years, Ameche won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Cocoon (1985). Ameche was married to his wife Honore for 54 years, and they had six children.
About Death
On December 6, 1993, Ameche died at his son Don, Jr.'s house in Scottsdale, Arizona of prostate cancer at age 85. He was cremated and his ashes are buried at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery in Asbury, Iowa.
Films - which cast members have died?
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Trading Places
1983 comedy film
Coming to America
1988 film by John Landis
Cocoon
1985 film by Ron Howard
Oscar
1991 film by John Landis
Down Argentine Way
1940 film by Irving Cummings
Harry and the Hendersons
1987 film by William Dear
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
animal adventure film, 1993 live-action loose adaptation of the novel with voice actors for the animals
Corrina, Corrina
1994 American film
Greenwich Village
1944 film by Walter Lang
In Old Chicago
1937 film by Henry King, Robert D. Webb
Wing and a Prayer
1944 film by Henry Hathaway
That Night in Rio
1941 film by Irving Cummings
Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938 film by Henry King
Cocoon: The Return
1988 film by Daniel Petrie
Midnight
1939 film by Mitchell Leisen
Heaven Can Wait
1943 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Clive of India
1935 film by Richard Boleslawski
Happy Land
1943 film by Irving Pichel
Folks!
1992 film by Ted Kotcheff
The Boatniks
1970 film by Norman Tokar
A Fever in the Blood
1961 film by Vincent Sherman
Swanee River
1940 film by Sidney Lanfield
Sleep, My Love
1948 film by Douglas Sirk
Dante's Inferno
1935 film by Harry Lachman
Moon Over Miami
1941 film by Walter Lang
Lillian Russell
1940 film by Irving Cummings
Love Is News
1937 film by Tay Garnett
So Goes My Love
1946 film by Frank Ryan
The Magnificent Dope
1942 film by Walter Lang
Confirm or Deny
1941 film
One in a Million
1936 film by Sidney Lanfield
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came
1970 film by Hy Averback
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 film by Irving Cummings
Ladies in Love
1936 film by Edward H. Griffith
Girl Trouble
1942 film by Harold D. Schuster
Ramona
1936 film by Henry King
It's in the Bag!
1945 film by Richard Wallace
Things Change
1988 comedy drama film
Guest Wife
1945 film by Sam Wood
The Three Musketeers
1939 film by Allan Dwan
You Can't Have Everything
1937 film by Norman Taurog
The Feminine Touch
1941 film by W. S. Van Dyke
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 American film
That's My Man
1947 film by Frank Borzage
Picture Mommy Dead
1966 film by Bert I. Gordon
Oddball Hall
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
1941 film by Victor Schertzinger
Gateway
1938 film by Alfred L. Werker
Love Under Fire
1937 film by George Marshall
Sins of Man
1936 film by Otto Brower, Gregory Ratoff
Something to Shout About
1943 film by Gregory Ratoff
Josette
1938 film by Allan Dwan
Fifty Roads to Town
1937 film by Norman Taurog
Happy Landing
1938 film by Roy Del Ruth
Four Sons
1940 film by Archie Mayo
Slightly French
1950 film by Douglas Sirk
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