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Image info
Artist | NBC Television |
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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 |
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Died | 6 December 1993 in Scottsdale |
Age | 85 years, 7 months |
Cause | prostate cancer |
Sex or gender | male |
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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.
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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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