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 decad ... es 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.
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Grindl
as Grindl
Episodes: 32
First Aired: Sep 15, 1963
It's About Time
as Shad
Episodes: 26
First Aired: Sep 11, 1966
Moonlighting
as Clara DiPesto
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 03, 1985
Night Gallery
as Wife (segment "The Merciful")
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 16, 1970
General Electric Theater
as Virginia Odell
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 01, 1953
Alice in Wonderland
as Cook
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 09, 1985
Love, American Style
as Doctor's wife
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 29, 1969
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Miss Clavel
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 12, 1958
Your Show of Shows
as Self - Regular Performer
Episodes: 136
First Aired: Feb 25, 1950
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Sep 25, 1963
Buzzy Wuzzy
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Nov 17, 1948
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Apr 09, 1950
The Carol Burnett Show
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Sep 11, 1967
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Jun 20, 1948
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Feb 02, 1950
Bewitched
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 17, 1964
The Hollywood Palace
as Self - Host
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 04, 1964
The Admiral Broadway Revue
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 28, 1949
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Dec 11, 1961
Trapper John, M.D.
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 23, 1979
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1950
The Brady Bunch
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 26, 1969
Mama's Family
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 22, 1983
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
Monsters
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 22, 1988
The Big Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 04, 1980
This Is Your Life
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1952
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Guest Performer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 24, 1956
The Imogene Coca Show
as Host
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 02, 1954
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee/Performer
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 01, 1956
Bobby's World
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 08, 1990
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
Reading Rainbow
as Herself - Narrator (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 06, 1983
The Hollywood Palace
as Self - Sketch Actor
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 04, 1964
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