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Imogene Coca

Acting

Born November 18, 1908 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Died June 2, 2001

Also known as Emogeane Coca

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Biography

Imogene Coca 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 pursued a serious career in music and dance, graduating to decades of stage musical revues, cabaret, and summer stock. In her 40s, she began a celebrated career as a comedian on television, starring in six series and guest-starring on successful television programs from the 1940s to the '90s.

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Awards & recognition

  • Lucy Award · 1995
  • Peabody Awards
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography20 titles

Caesar's Writers

1996as Self (archive footage)

Reading Rainbow

1983as Self - Narrator (voice)

Bewitched

1964

Night Gallery

1969as Wife (segment "The Merciful")

The Carol Burnett Show

1967as Self - Guest

Moonlighting

1985as Clara DiPesto

Mama's Family

1983

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962as Self

Monsters

1988as The Old Woman

National Lampoon's Vacation

1983as Aunt Edna

What's My Line?

1950as Self - Mystery Guest

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1950as Self

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948as Self

The Brady Bunch

1969

Shirley Temple's Storybook

1958as Miss Clavel

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

1981as Granny's Maw

Buy & Cell

1989as Reggie's Mother

Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner

1981as Molly - Bag Lady

Promises! Promises!

1963as Woman Under Hair Dryer (uncredited)

In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

2012as Self