Actor
Don Ameche
May 31, 1908 · Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
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.
Notable work
6.9Coming to America (1988)
as Mortimer Duke / Homeless Man #2 (uncredited)
7.2Trading Places (1983)
as Mortimer Duke
6.6Cocoon (1985)
as Arthur Selwyn
7Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
as Shadow (voice)
6.5Cocoon: The Return (1988)
as Art Selwyn
8.1Columbo (1971)
as Frank Simpson
6.1Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
as Dr. Wallace Wrightwood
6.4Oscar (1991)
as Father Clemente
6.7Corrina, Corrina (1994)
as Grandpa Harry
7.6The Golden Girls (1985)
as Brother Martin
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