Don Ameche

Ameche has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6101 Hollywood Boulevard. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street. His final scenes for the film Corrina, Corrina (1994) were completed only days before his death in Scottsdale, Arizona from prostate cancer. Lionel Barrymore is entombed in the Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California. Ameche's next role, in Cocoon (1985), won him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he continued working for the rest of his life (including a role in the sequel, Cocoon: The Return). Potter, the miserly banker, in It's a Wonderful Life, 1946. The actors played rich brothers intent on ruining an innocent man for the sake of a bet and the film's great success, and their acclaimed comedic performances, brought them both back into the limelight. He is perhaps currently best known as Mr.

For three decades he was virtually absent from films, until he was cast alongside fellow veteran actor Ralph Bellamy in the film Trading Places in 1983. Years later, after breaking his hip twice, he was confined to a wheelchair, but still acted. By the end of the decade his films had lost appeal, and he turned to radio where he achieved great success during the fifties playing opposite Frances Langford in The Bickersons. He played the irascible Doctor Gillespie in a series of Doctor Kildare and Doctor Gillespie movies in the 1930s and 1940s. He was so associated with his role as Bell that for a time, "Ameche" was slang for telephone. He won an Oscar in 1931 for best actor in Free Soul, after having been nominated in 1930 for best director for Madame X. He appeared successfully in such films as Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), as Alexander Graham Bell in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) and Heaven Can Wait (1943). Barrymore made a name for himself on stage before going to Hollywood in 1924.

He made his film debut in 1935 and by the late thirties had established himself as a leading actor in Hollywood. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died in Van Nuys, California. Born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Ameche began his career in vaudeville with Texas Guinan until Guinan dropped him from the act, dismissing him as "too stiff". Lionel Barrymore (April 28, 1878 - November 15, 1954), original name: Lionel Blythe, was an American actor of stage, radio and film, elder brother of Ethel and John Barrymore. Don Ameche (May 31, 1908 - December 6, 1993) was an American actor. Barrymore family.