Imogene Coca
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Imogene Fernandez de Coca (born November 18, 1908 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † June 2, 2001 in Westport , Connecticut ) was an American comedy actress .
Life
She started out as a child acrobat in the vaudeville theater , then studied ballet and wanted to start a serious career in music and dance. Ultimately, she toured for decades through musical revues, cabaret, and seasonal theater performances. In the 1940s she became a celebrated comedian on television, starring in six television series and making regular guest appearances on television programs well into the 1990s. In addition to variety shows, cabaret, theater and television, she starred in films, spoke children's cartoons and appeared in an MTV video for a new wave band. Widowed twice, Coca died in 2001.
Coca was married to actor Robert Burton from 1935 to 1955 and to actor King Donovan from 1960 to 1987.
Awards
She was nominated for five Emmy Awards for Your Show of Shows and won Best Actress in 1951. In 1953 she received a Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting. Coca was also nominated for a Tony Award for On the Twentieth Century in 1978 and for a sixth Emmy at the age of 80 for her role in The Model and the Snoop .
Filmography (selection)
- 1937: Dime a Dance (short film)
- 1937: Bashful Ballerina (short film)
- 1948: Buzzy Wuzzy (TV series)
- 1950–1954: Your Show of Shows (TV series, 25 episodes)
- 1954: The Imogene Coca Show (TV series)
- 1956: Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theater (TV series, an episode)
- 1956: The United States Steel Hour (TV series, episode)
- 1960: Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV series, episode)
- 1963: A marriage bed for rehearsal (Under the Yum Yum Tree)
- 1963–1964: Grindl (TV series, 32 episodes)
- 1966–1967: It's About Time (TV series, 26 episodes)
- 1971: In Love with a Witch ( Bewitched , TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1972: Three Girls and Three Boys ( The Brady Bunch , TV series, an episode)
- 1975: The Wide World of Mystery (TV series, episode)
- 1978: Yes, am I lying? (Rabbit Test)
- 1980: Trapper John, MD (TV series, episode)
- 1981: The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (TV movie)
- 1983: Young and Passionate - As Life Plays ( As the World Turns , TV series, multiple episodes)
- 1983: Fantasy Island (TV series, episode)
- 1983: The shrill four on the move (National Lampoon's Vacation)
- 1983–1984: Love, Lie, Passion ( One Life to Live , television series, several episodes)
- 1984: Nothing Lasts Forever
- 1985: Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie)
- 1987: Two great pikes in jail (Buy & Cell)
- 1988: The Model and the Snoop ( Moonlighting , TV series, an episode)
- 1989: Monsters (TV series, an episode)
- 1994: Garfield and Friends ( Garfield and Friends , TV series, 3 episodes, voice)
Web links
- Imogene Coca in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Imogene Coca in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Actress Imogene Coca dead at 92
- Literature by and about Imogene Coca in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Imogene Coca in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imogene Coca Biography (1908-2001) . filmreference.com. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
- ↑ http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20134691,00.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coca, Imogene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Coca, Imogene Fernandez (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comedy actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 2001 |
| Place of death | Westport , Connecticut , United States |