Jim Ameche

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Jim Ameche (born August 6, 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as James Ameche; died February 4, 1983, in Tucson, Arizona) was the younger and probably lesser-known brother of actor Don Ameche.

Jim Ameche was radio's original Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy. When brother Don left his position as the host and announcer for "The Chase & Sanborn Hour" in the early 1940s, Jim took over for the remainder of the show's run.

For many years he was a popular local radio personality in the New York City area. His most famous role was as Alexander Graham Bell in the 1957 film The Story of Mankind, the role his brother Don had played in a film biography of Bell in 1939. The two brothers' faces and voices were a close match. By the late 1960s, he was working as an announcer on New York's WHN and the TV pitchman for a Longines Symphonette Society mail-order record album featuring clips of old-time radio broadcasts.

Jim Ameche died in 1983 of lung cancer.