Don Ameche
actor, director, soundtrack
- Birth name:
- Dominic Felix Amici
- Born:
- 1908-05-31, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
- Died:
- 1993-12-06, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, soundtrack
Biography
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. 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). Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to Barbara Edda (Hertel) and Felice Amici, a bartender.
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