Movies starring Don Ameche

Biography: 
Ameche was a versatile and popular 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 rejuven ...  show all 

Trading Places (1983)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Denholm Elliott | Dan Aykroyd | Maurice Woods | Richard D. Fisher Jr. | Jim Gallagher | Anthony DiSabatino | Bonnie Behrend | Sunnie Merrill | James Newell | Mary St. John | Bonnie Tremena | David Schwartz | Ralph Bellamy | Don Ameche | Tom Degidon
Directors: John Landis
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

Oscar (1991)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Riegert | Chazz Palminteri | Joey Travolta | Paul Greco | Sylvester Stallone | Richard Foronjy | Yvonne De Carlo | Don Ameche | Richard Romanus | Arleen Sorkin | Eddie Bracken | Tony Munafo | Robert Lesser | Art LaFleur | Kurtwood Smith
Directors: John Landis
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Angelo “Snaps” Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise. He is faced with numerous problems: henchmen who know nothing but crime, the police who are convinced he is hatching a master plan, and Oscar, who has just got his daughter pregnant.

Cocoon: The Return (1988)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Don Ameche | Wilford Brimley | Courteney Cox | Hume Cronyn | Jack Gilford | Steve Guttenberg | Barret Oliver | Maureen Stapleton | Elaine Stritch | Jessica Tandy | Gwen Verdon | Tahnee Welch | Linda Harrison | Tyrone Power Jr. | Mike Nomad
Directors: Daniel Petrie
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Art, Ben and Joe are back! So are their wives and good friend Bernie in their first adventure since their last! Five years since the senior citizens blasted off into space with the Antareans return to earth because their alien friends have to collect the rest of the cocoons in the ocean, believed to be in danger from an earthquake. Ben and Mary visit their family, while Art and Joe visit Bernie, who’s still hangin’ on. Art, Ben and Joe had forgotten what it was like on earth and immediately begin to feel their weaknesses, except for Art’s wife who’s pregnant! Meanwhile in the ocean, a biologist company snatched a cocoon out of the ocean and are doing research on it…