Don Ameche

Film and radio actor; announcer on the Bergen-McCarthy Show; Academy Award winner for Cocoon.

Don Ameche was a suave and versatile film and radio actor who served as announcer and regular performer on The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show. He had a distinguished film career at 20th Century Fox in the late 1930s and made a triumphant comeback in the 1980s, winning an Academy Award for Cocoon.

1908Born

1993Died

1Radio credits

Radio Credits — In Our Archive

The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show

Co-star

1937-1942· NBC

Known For

The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show

Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

Cocoon (1985) — Academy Award