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Don Ameche (/ ə ˈ m iː tʃ i /; born Dominic Felix Amici; May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor, comedian and vaudevillian. After playing in college shows, repertory theatre , 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.
Don Ameche 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.
Don Ameche 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.
Dec 8, 1993 · Don Ameche, who was one of Hollywood's busiest and most versatile stars in the 1930's and 40's and who saw his fame triumphantly rekindled when he won an Oscar for his work in the comedy "Cocoon"...
Dec 6, 1993 · 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.
Dec 8, 1993 · Don Ameche, the dapper, debonair, devilish leading man of such quality 1930s hits as “Midnight” and “The Story of Alexander Graham Bell” who dazzled audiences anew and won an Academy Award in...
Dec 8, 1993 · Don Ameche, the dapper, debonair, devilish leading man of such quality 1930s hits as “Midnight” and “The Story of Alexander Graham Bell” who dazzled audiences anew and won an Academy Award in...
DON AMECHE. A native of Kenosha, Wisconsin, Don Ameche started his radio career in 1930 on Empire Builders, a program broadcast from Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. By 1932, Ameche had become the leading man on two other Chicago-based programs: the dramatic anthology First Nighter and Betty and Bob, considered by many to be the forerunner of the ...
Dec 5, 2013 · Ameche toured with vaudeville acts and became a versatile radio personality, announcer and entertainer, perhaps most memorably as a beleaguered husband in the 1940s comedy...
Dec 6, 1993 · With his good looks and trademark pencil thin moustache, Don Ameche specialized in musicals and comedies during the 1930s and 1940s, often cast as likeable, upper-class sophisticates.
