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Ameche, Don
(b.
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31 May in Kenosha, Wisconsin; d. 6 December in Scottsdale, Arizona), actor of radio, stage, screen, and television remembered especially for the film The Story of Alexander Graham Bell () and later in life for his Academy Award for Cocoon ().
Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici, the second of eight children of Felix Amici, an Italian-born saloon proprietor, and Barbara Etta Hertle, of German and Scotch-Irish descent.
Sometime after arriving in the United States, his father changed the family name to “Ameche”; since classmates called Dominic “Don,” he became known as “Don Ameche.” After attending St. Berchman’s Seminary in Marion, Iowa, from to , Ameche attended another Catholic boys’ school, Columbia Academy in Dubuque, Iowa, where he graduated with honors in He entered the academy’s collegiate counterpart, Columbia College (now called Loras College) in Dubuque, where he studied for a year.
His father wanted him to study law, however, so Ameche enrolled as