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Imogene Coca
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Imogene Coca
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1908-11-18,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
Imogene Fernandez de Coca (November 18, 1908 – June 2, 2001) was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows. Starting out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, she studied ballet and wished to have a serious career in music and dance, graduating to decades of stage musical revues, cabaret and summer stock. Finally in her 40s she began a celebrated career as a comedienne in television, starring in six series and guesting on successful television programs from the 1940s to the 1990s. She was nominated for five Emmy awards for Your Show of Shows, winning Best Actress in 1951 and singled out for a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting in 1953. Coca was also nominated for a Tony Award in 1978 for On the Twentieth Century and received a sixth Emmy nomination at the age of 80 for an episode of Moonlighting. She possessed a rubbery face capable of the broadest expressions—Life magazine compared her to Beatrice Lillie and Charlie Chaplin, and described her characterizations as taking "people or situations suspended in their own precarious balance between dignity and absurdity, and push(ing) them over the cliff with one single, pointed gesture"—the magazine noted a "particularly high-brow critic" as observing, "The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. Miss Coca, on the other hand, is the timid woman who, when aroused, can beat a tiger to death with a feather." In addition to vaudeville, cabaret, theater and television, she appeared in film, voiced children's cartoons and was even featured in an MTV video by a New Wave band. Though her fame began late, she worked well into her 80s. Twice a widow, Coca died in 2001. Description above from the Wikipedia article Imogene Coca, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

National Lampoon's Vacation

7.107

National Lampoon's Vacation
1983-07-29

The Sound of Laughter

2

The Sound of Laughter
1963-12-17

Under the Yum-Yum Tree

5.9

Under the Yum-Yum Tree
1963-10-23

The Little Match Girl

0

The Little Match Girl
1987-12-01

Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner

4.8

Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner
1981-11-01

4.2

Rabbit Test
1978-04-09

Papa Was a Preacher

0

Papa Was a Preacher
1986-09-19

Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes

5

Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes
1972-02-21

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

4

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
1981-10-06

Ten from Your Show of Shows

7.5

Ten from Your Show of Shows
1973-02-23

Too Easy to Kill

0

Too Easy to Kill
1975-10-14

Nothing Lasts Forever

6.296

Nothing Lasts Forever
1984-09-06

5.1

Buy & Cell
1989-01-27

Television: The First Fifty Years

0

Television: The First Fifty Years
1999-01-01

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

6.7

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018-02-17

3

Dime a Dance
1937-12-23

A Special Sesame Street Christmas

6

A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978-12-08

Promises! Promises!

4.8

Promises! Promises!
1963-08-01

Hollywood: The Movie

5.5

Hollywood: The Movie
1996-01-01

In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

0

In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
2012-11-13

Bashful Ballerina

0

Bashful Ballerina
1937-09-17

Trapper John, M.D.

6.5

Trapper John, M.D.
1979-09-23

The Colgate Comedy Hour

7

The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950-09-10

The Brady Bunch

6.719

The Brady Bunch
1969-09-26

7.5

Moonlighting
1985-03-03

7.6

Mama's Family
1983-01-22

It's About Time

6

It's About Time
1966-09-11

The Merv Griffin Show

5.6

The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01

7.8

Night Gallery
1970-12-16

7.9

Bewitched
1964-09-17

General Electric Theater

6

General Electric Theater
1953-02-01

The Ed Sullivan Show

6.6

The Ed Sullivan Show
1948-06-20

7

Monsters
1988-10-22

The Hollywood Palace

4.5

The Hollywood Palace
1964-01-04

0

The Big Show
1980-03-04

This Is Your Life

6.3

This Is Your Life
1952-10-01

Your Show of Shows

5.5

Your Show of Shows
1950-02-25

The Admiral Broadway Revue

0

The Admiral Broadway Revue
1949-01-28

5.5

Grindl
1963-09-15

The Steve Allen Show

5

The Steve Allen Show
1956-06-24

0

Buzzy Wuzzy
1948-11-17

Alice in Wonderland

6.8

Alice in Wonderland
1985-12-09

The Imogene Coca Show

0

The Imogene Coca Show
1954-10-02

4.6

Tony Awards
1956-04-01

6.9

Bobby's World
1990-09-08

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

7.4

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01

The Bob Hope Show

7

The Bob Hope Show
1950-04-09

Reading Rainbow

8.4

Reading Rainbow
1983-06-06

The Carol Burnett Show

7.6

The Carol Burnett Show
1967-09-11

The Hollywood Palace

4.5

The Hollywood Palace
1964-01-04

The Mike Douglas Show

5.1

The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11

What's My Line?

6.8

What's My Line?
1950-02-02

The Danny Kaye Show

6.3

The Danny Kaye Show
1963-09-25

Love, American Style

6

Love, American Style
1969-09-29

Shirley Temple's Storybook

5.8

Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958-01-12