Don Ameche

ActorDirector May 31 (died age 85) Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA 1936–2009 (73 year career)

6.1 avg rating

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)…

Known For

Film

Trading Places

Mortimer Duke

Film

Coming to America

Mortimer Duke / Homeless Man #2 (uncredited)

Film

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Shadow (voice)

Film

Cocoon

Arthur Selwyn

Film

Cocoon: The Return

Art Selwyn

Film

Corrina, Corrina

Grandpa Harry

Film

Harry and the Hendersons

Dr. Wallace Wrightwood

Film

Oscar

Father Clemente

Filmography

Acting (91)

Movies (68)

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing

2009

as (archive footage)

6.0

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1997

as Self (archive footage)

4.9

Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults

1997

as Self (archiveFootage)

7.0

Corrina, Corrina

1994

as Grandpa Harry

6.7

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

as Shadow (voice)

Folks!

as Harry Aldrich

Sunstroke

as Jake

Oscar

as Father Clemente

Our Shining Moment

Oddball Hall

as G. Paul Siebriese

Coming to America

1988

as Mortimer Duke / Homeless Man #2 (uncredited)

Cocoon: The Return

as Art Selwyn

Things Change

as Gino

Harry and the Hendersons

1987

as Dr. Wallace Wrightwood

6.1

Pals

1987

as Fern Stobbs

3.7

A Masterpiece of Murder

1986

as Frank Aherne

Cocoon

as Arthur Selwyn

Trading Places

as Mortimer Duke

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

The Chinese Typewriter

1979

as Armand Beller

Gidget Gets Married

as Otis Ramsey

The Boatniks

as Commander Taylor

Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

as Col. Flanders

Shadow Over Elveron

as Justin Travers

Rings Around the World

1967

as Host/Ringmaster

Picture Mommy Dead

1966

as Edward Shelley

5.4

A Fever in the Blood

1961

as Senator Alex S. Simon

Slightly French

as John Gayle

Sleep, My Love

as Richard W. Courtland

That's My Man

as Joe Grange

So Goes My Love

as Hiram Stephen Maxim

7.0

Guest Wife

1945

as Joseph Jefferson 'Joe' Parker

It's in the Bag!

as Don Ameche

Wing and a Prayer

as Bingo Harper

Greenwich Village

as Kenneth Harvey

Heaven Can Wait

as Henry Van Cleve

Happy Land

as Lew Marsh

Something to Shout About

as Ken Douglas

The Magnificent Dope

as Dwight Dawson

Girl Trouble

as Pedro Sullivan

The Feminine Touch

as John Hathaway

Confirm or Deny

as 'Mitch' Mitchell

Kiss the Boys Goodbye

1941

as Lloyd Lloyd

5.0

Moon Over Miami

1941

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

6.1

That Night in Rio

1941

as Larry Martin / Baron Manuel Duarte

Four Sons

as Chris Bern

Down Argentine Way

as Ricardo Quintana

Lillian Russell

as Edward Solomon

Midnight

as Tibor Czerny

Hollywood Cavalcade

as Mike Connors

Land of Liberty

as Alexander Graham Bell (archive footage)

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

1939

as Alexander Graham Bell

6.2

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

as Don Ameche

The Three Musketeers

as D'Artagnan

Swanee River

as Stephen Foster

Alexander's Ragtime Band

as Charlie Dwyer

Happy Landing

as Jimmy Hall

In Old Chicago

as Jack O'Leary

Josette

as David Brassard Jr.

Gateway

as Dick Court

Love Is News

as Martin J. Canavan

You Can't Have Everything

as George Macrae

Love Under Fire

as Tracy Egan

Fifty Roads to Town

as Peter Nostrand

One in a Million

as Bob Harris

Ramona

as Alessandro

Ladies in Love

as Dr. Rudi Imre

Sins of Man

as Karl Freyman / Mario Signarelli

Television (23)

The Golden Girls

1985

as Brother Martin

7.6

The Kennedy Center Honors

as Self

The Love Boat

as Henry Dobson

Quincy, M.E.

as Harry Whitehead

Good Heavens

Ellery Queen

as Dr. Norman Marsh

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

as Self

Columbo

as Frank Simpson

Alias Smith and Jones

McCloud

Petticoat Junction

as Uncle George

Burke's Law

as Whitman Saunders

The Greatest Show on Earth

1963

as Collie McCullough

5.0

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Merv Griffin Show

1962

as Self

6.2

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self - Co-Host

5.4

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

1957

as Self

7.0

DuPont Show of the Month

as Harry Graves

The Lux Show

as Self

Climax!

as Sam Waterman

Coke Time with Eddie Fisher

What's My Line?

as Self

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Crew (1)

Television (1)

Julia

1968

Director

6.0