Don was the voice of Shadow, the Golden Retriever, in Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993). [edit]
Don won the Venice Film Festival Best Actor award for Things Change (1988). [edit]
Don served as a ringmaster on the NBC show International Showcase, which traveled worldwide introducing different circus and magic acts every week, from 1961 to 1965. [edit]
Don appeared in 5 films with Loretta Young, including:
Clive Of India (1935) (his screen debut) Ramona (1936) Ladies In Love (1936) Love Under Fire (1937) The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) [edit]
Don appeared with Mae West on "The Chase and Sanborn Hour" on Dec. 12, 1937, in a Hollywood radio studio, in which they
did a comic takeoff on Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Mae's burlesque delivery of her lines and ad-libs caused a nationwide uproar and condemnation from the FCC. West was not allowed to perform on radio after this and Don's career was jeopardized by this. [edit]
Don co-starred in 6 pictures with Alice Faye, including:
In Old Chicago (1937) You Can't Have Eveything (1937) Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) Lillian Russell (1940) That Night In Rio (1941) [edit]
Don and his wife Honore had six children; Ronald, Dominic, Thomas, Lonnie, Bonnie and Connie. [edit]
Don's younger brother, Jim, was also an actor and also played the role of Alexander Graham Bell in The Story Of Mankind (1957). [edit]
Don was married to Honore Prendergast from 1932 until her death in 1986. [edit]
Don apologized to everyone on the set of Trading Places (1983) when he had to read a line containing what he called "the f-word." [edit]
Don co-starred with Zsa Zsa Gabor in the campy horror film Picture Mommy Dead (1966). [edit]
Don finished his scenes in Corinna, Corinna (1994) a few days before his death. [edit]
Don was inducted into the Radio Hall Of Fame in 1992. [edit]
Don's role in The Story Of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) was so popular that many Americans referred to telephones as "Ameches" in the 1940s. [edit]
Don won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Cocoon (1985). [edit]
(about producer Darryl F. Zanuck) Don Ameche: Zanuck never did anything but be nice to me. Oh yeah, maybe he chased Alice Faye around, but a lot of people chased Alice Faye around. [edit]
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