Imogene Coca
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 18, 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- June 2, 2001
- Movies
- 24
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.
Best-Known Movies
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983
Under the Yum Yum Tree
1963
Nothing Lasts Forever
1984
Rabbit Test
1978
Promises! Promises!
1963
Buy & Cell
1989
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
1981
Ten from Your Show of Shows
1973
Filmography
| 2018 | Mel Brooks: Unwrapped | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | In the Beginning: The Caesar Years | Self |
| 1999 | Television: The First Fifty Years | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Caesar's Writers | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Hollywood: The Movie | Roxy |
| 1989 | Buy & Cell | Reggie's Mother |
| 1987 | The Little Match Girl | Self - Host |
| 1986 | Papa Was a Preacher | Missy B |
| 1984 | Nothing Lasts Forever | Daisy Schackman |
| 1983 | National Lampoon's Vacation | Aunt Edna |
| 1981 | Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner | Molly - Bag Lady |
| 1981 | The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies | Granny's Maw |
| 1978 | A Special Sesame Street Christmas | Self |
| 1978 | Rabbit Test | Madam Marie |
| 1975 | Too Easy to Kill | Mrs. Bradshaw |
| 1973 | Ten from Your Show of Shows | |
| 1972 | The Emperor's New Clothes | Princess Jane Klockenlocher (voice) |
| 1963 | The Sound of Laughter | Miss Klutz (Ballerina) |
| 1963 | Under the Yum Yum Tree | Dorkus Murphy |
| 1963 | Promises! Promises! | Woman Under Hair Dryer (uncredited) |
| 1956 | Made in Heaven | Elsa Meredith |
| 1937 | Dime a Dance | Esmeralda |
| 1937 | Bashful Ballerina | Miss Klutz |
| 1936 | Imogene Coca Screen Test |
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