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1908 – 1993Don Ameche (1908-1993)Died 6 December 1993, aged 85Don Ameche was an American actor whose career spanned six decades, from 1930s radio and film through a career resurgence with "Trading Places" and an Oscar-winning role in "Cocoon." He was famously, if inaccurately, credited by the public with inventing the telephone due to his role in a 1939 biopic of Alexander Graham Bell. He died of prostate cancer in Scottsdale, Arizona.