Imogene Coca
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
Film • 2018
jako Self (archive footage)
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Film • 2012
jako Self
Television: The First Fifty Years
Film • 1999
jako Self (archive footage)
Caesar's Writers
Film • 1996
jako Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Movie
Film • 1996
jako Roxy
Świat Bobbiego
Serial • 1990
Buy & Cell
Film • 1989
jako Reggie's Mother
Monsters
Serial • 1988
jako The Old Woman
The Little Match Girl
Film • 1987
jako Self - Host
Papa Was a Preacher
Film • 1986
jako Missy B
Alice in Wonderland
Serial • 1985
jako Cook
Na wariackich papierach
Serial • 1985
jako Clara DiPesto
Nothing Lasts Forever
Film • 1984
jako Daisy Schackman
W krzywym zwierciadle: Wakacje
Film • 1983
jako Aunt Edna
Reading Rainbow
Serial • 1983
jako Self - Narrator (voice)
Mama's Family
Serial • 1983
Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner
Film • 1981
jako Molly - Bag Lady
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
Film • 1981
jako Granny's Maw
The Big Show
Serial • 1980
jako Self
Trapper John, M.D.
Serial • 1979
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Film • 1978
jako Self
Rabbit Test
Film • 1978
jako Madam Marie
Too Easy to Kill
Film • 1975
jako Mrs. Bradshaw
Ten from Your Show of Shows
Film • 1973
The Emperor's New Clothes
Film • 1972
jako Princess Jane Klockenlocher (voice)
Night Gallery
Serial • 1970
jako Wife (segment "The Merciful")
Love, American Style
Serial • 1969
jako Doctor's wife
The Brady Bunch
Serial • 1969
The Carol Burnett Show
Serial • 1967
jako Self - Guest
It's About Time
Serial • 1966
jako Shad
Ożeniłem się z czarownicą
Serial • 1964
The Hollywood Palace
Serial • 1964
jako Self
The Sound of Laughter
Film • 1963
jako Miss Klutz (Ballerina)
Under the Yum Yum Tree
Film • 1963
jako Dorkus Murphy
The Danny Kaye Show
Serial • 1963
jako Self
Grindl
Serial • 1963
jako Grindl
Promises! Promises!
Film • 1963
jako Woman Under Hair Dryer (uncredited)
The Merv Griffin Show
Serial • 1962
jako Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Serial • 1962
jako Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Serial • 1961
jako Self
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Serial • 1958
jako Miss Clavel
Made in Heaven
Film • 1956
jako Elsa Meredith
The Steve Allen Show
Serial • 1956
jako Self - Guest Performer
Tony Awards
Serial • 1956
jako Self - Nominee / Performer
The Imogene Coca Show
Serial • 1954
jako Host
General Electric Theater
Serial • 1953
jako Virginia Odell
This Is Your Life
Serial • 1952
jako Self
Danger
Serial • 1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Serial • 1950
jako Self
The Bob Hope Show
Serial • 1950
jako Self
Your Show of Shows
Serial • 1950
jako Self - Regular Performer
What's My Line?
Serial • 1950
jako Self
The Admiral Broadway Revue
Serial • 1949
Buzzy Wuzzy
Serial • 1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
Serial • 1948
jako Self
Dime a Dance
Film • 1937
jako Esmeralda
Bashful Ballerina
Film • 1937
jako Miss Klutz
Imogene Coca Screen Test
Film • 1936