Don Ameche
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1908-05-31
Deathday 1993-12-06 (85 years old)
Place of Birth Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
Also Known As Дон Амичи, Dominic Felix Amici
Don Ameche
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.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archiveFootage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Grandpa Harry
as Shadow (voice)
as Jake
as Harry Aldrich
as Father Clemente
as G. Paul Siebriese
as Gino
as Art Selwyn
as Mortimer Duke / Homeless Man #2 (uncredited)
as Dr. Wallace Wrightwood
as Fern Stobbs
as Frank Aherne
as Arthur Selwyn
as Brother Martin
as Mortimer Duke
as Self
as Stewart Coolidge
as Henry Dobson
as Hollis Witkin
as Harry Whitehead
as Dr. Norman Marsh
as Otis Ramsey
as Frank Simpson
as Col. Flanders
as Commander Taylor
as Justin Travers
as Host/Ringmaster
as Edward Shelley
as Uncle George
as Whitman Saunders
as Collie McCullough
as Self
as Senator Alex S. Simon
as Self - Co-Host
as Self
as Harry Graves
as Self
as Self
as Sam Waterman
as Self - Mystery Guest
as Self - Panelist
as John Gayle
as Richard W. Courtland
as Self
as Henry Orient
as Joe Grange
as Hiram Stephen Maxim
as Joseph Jefferson 'Joe' Parker
as Don Ameche
as Kenneth Harvey
as Bingo Harper
as Lew Marsh
as Henry Van Cleve
as Ken Douglas
as Pedro Sullivan
as Dwight Dawson
as 'Mitch' Mitchell
as John Hathaway
as Lloyd Lloyd
as Phil O'Neil (Credits) / Phil 'Mac' McNeil
as Larry Martin / Baron Manuel Duarte
as Ricardo Quintana
as Chris Bern
as Edward Solomon
as Stephen Foster
as Mike Connors
as Alexander Graham Bell (archive footage)
as Don Ameche
as Alexander Graham Bell
as Tibor Czerny
as D'Artagnan
as Dick Court
as David Brassard Jr.
as Charlie Dwyer
as Jack O'Leary
as Jimmy Hall
as Tracy Egan
as George Macrae
as Peter Nostrand
as Martin J. Canavan
as Bob Harris
as Dr. Rudi Imre
as Alessandro
as Karl Freyman / Mario Signarelli
Director
as Director