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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

as Self (archive footage)

1997
Corrina, Corrina

as Grandpa Harry

1994
Folks!

as Harry Aldrich

1992
Cocoon: The Return

as Art Selwyn

1988
Things Change

as Gino

1988
Harry and the Hendersons

as Dr. Wallace Wrightwood

1987
Pals

as Fern Stobbs

1987
Cocoon

as Arthur Selwyn

1985
Trading Places

as Mortimer Duke

1983
Gidget Gets Married

as Otis Ramsey

1972
The Boatniks

as Commander Taylor

1970
Shadow Over Elveron

as Justin Travers

1968
Picture Mommy Dead

as Edward Shelley

1966
Slightly French

as John Gayle

1949
Sleep, My Love

as Richard W. Courtland

1948
That's My Man

as Joe Grange

1947
So Goes My Love

as Hiram Stephen Maxim

1946
It's in the Bag!

as Don Ameche

1945
Guest Wife

as Joseph Jefferson 'Joe' Parker

1945
Wing and a Prayer

as Bingo Harper

1944
Heaven Can Wait

as Henry Van Cleve

1943
Something to Shout About

as Ken Douglas

1943
Happy Land

as Lew Marsh

1943
The Magnificent Dope

as Dwight Dawson

1942
That Night in Rio

as Larry Martin / Baron Manuel Duarte

1941
Moon Over Miami

as Phil O'Neil (Credits) / Phil 'Mac' McNeil

1941
Confirm or Deny

as 'Mitch' Mitchell

1941
Don Ameche Don Ameche

Birthday

1908-05-31

Place of Birth

Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA

Biography

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. Ameche, standing in at a height of 5' 11" (1.8 m) was born May 31, 1908 (Gemini) in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA as Dominic Felix Amici to mother, Barbara Edda (Hertel) and father, Felice Amici, a bartender. Has a younger brother Jim Ameche. His father was an Italian immigrant. His mother had German, English, Irish and Scottish ancestry. Americans pronounced his last name incorrectly in Italian ("Ah-mee-see"). So he changed it from "Amici" (correctly pronounced "Ah-mee-chee") into "Ameche", in order to keep the original Italian pronunciation. He had the nickname "The Latin Lover". Married Honore Prendergast on the 6th of December 1932. They had 6 children together. Became a father for the first time at age 25 when his wife Honore gave birth to their son Dominic Felix Ameche--aka Don Ameche Jr. on October 3, 1933. Became a father for the second time at age 27 when his wife Honore gave birth to their son Ronald Ameche on December 30, 1935. He died on January 2, 2001 in Iowa, aged 65. Became a father for the third time at age 31 when his wife Honore gave birth to their son Thomas Anthony Ameche on July 20, 1939. Became a father for the fourth time at age 32 when his wife Honore gave birth to their son Lawrence Michael Ameche on July 20, 1940. Became a father for the fifth time at age 36 when his wife Honore gave birth to their daughter Barbara Balinda Ameche on March 13, 1945. Became a father for the sixth time at age 39 when his wife Honore gave birth to their daughter Constance Victoria Ameche on February 22, 1948. His wife of 54 years, died on the 5th of September 1986. He died on December 6, 1993 at the age of 85 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA from prostate cancer.
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