Biography: Don Ameche |

Though his popularity rose and fell during his long career, American actor Don Ameche, born Dominic Amici in Kenosha, WI, was one of Hollywood's most enduring stars. He began his acting career in college, where he had been studying law. He had a... more
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Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
Cast: Sally Field   
Tags: Animal Picture Family-Oriented Adventure Adventure Family 
Length: 85min
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Disney's 1993 remake of the 1963 hit The Incredible Journey, follows three household pets as they travel across mountains and plains on their way to find their owners. A misunderstanding leads the animals to...

Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller 
Length: 91min
In this made-for-cable outing, a woman desperately searches the Arizona desert for her kidnapped daughter. Falsely accused of murder and therefore avoiding the cops, she must go it alone until she meets a helpful but enigmatic wanderer who helps her....

Tags: Domestic Comedy Comedy Black Comedy Slapstick 
Length: 109min
In this comedy, stockbroker Jon Aldrich (Tom Selleck) is the man who has it all, until his ill, aging parents (Don Ameche and Anne Jackson) move in with him. As his perfect life begins to disintegrate bit by bit, Jon becomes more and more depressed...

Tags: Comedy Drama Sci-Fi Comedy Science Fiction 
Length: 116min
Cocoon 2: The Return, like most sequels, relies a bit too heavily on one's familiarity with the first film. Without dwelling too long on Cocoon 1, we can observe that it ended with a group of senior citizens heading for the distant planet of Antarea,...

Cast: Sylvester Stallone John Landis Tim Curry   
Tags: Crime Comedy Gangster Film Farce 
Length: 109min
Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the wealthy and powerful head of the Chicago mob, but his ailing father (Kirk Douglas) doesn't approve of his life in crime, and on his...

Cast: Eddie Murphy Denholm Elliott Jamie Lee Curtis Ralph Bellamy   
Tags: Satire Comedy of Manners Comedy 
Length: 118min
The "nature-nurture" theory that motivated so many Three Stooges comedies is the basis of John Landis's hit comedy. The fabulously wealthy but morally bankrupt Duke brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) make a one-dollar bet over heredity vs....

Cast: Jessica Tandy Hume Cronyn Brian Dennehy Gwen Verdon Maureen Stapleton   
Tags: Sci-Fi Comedy Science Fiction 
Length: 117min
Cocoon is a warm-hearted science-fiction fable that avoids becoming overly corny thanks to the performances of its mostly senior cast. Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, and Hume Cronyn are three old-timers who sneak out of their retirement home a few days...

Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy of Manners Satire Crime 
Length: 114min
Perhaps it was his collaborator Shel Silverstein who said to screenwriter David Mamet "Lighten up. Do a comedy." Whatever the case, Things Change was a welcome change of pace for Mamet, both as scenarist and director. Don Ameche also goes against his...

A Masterpiece of Murder (1986)
Cast: Bob Hope Don Ameche   
Tags: Detective Film Mystery 
Length: 100min
Bob Hope makes his first starring film appearance in 14 years in this made-for-TV movie. Hope stars as a seedy private eye, hoping to get one last good case before calling it quits. Don Ameche, a retired art thief reduced to working as a chauffeur,...

Cast: George C. Scott   
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy Crime 
Length: 95min
The "pals" of the title, played by Don Ameche and George C. Scott, are Army chums living a sedentary retirement. Occasionally the twosome becomes a threesome when Scott's mother Sylvia Sidney shows up. All three are resigned to living out their lives...

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