Elisha Cook Jr.
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1903-12-26 (92 years old)
Deathday
1995-05-18
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also known As
Elisha Cook
Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr.
Элиша Кук
Еліша Кук
الیشا کوک جونیور
Elisha Cook Jr.
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elisha Vanslyck Cook, Jr was an American character actor who made a career out of playing cowardly villains and weedy neurotics in dozens of films. He was perhaps most noted for his portrayal of the "gunsel" Wilmer, who tries to intimidate Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elisha Cook, Jr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Acting
1956
as George Peatty
1946
as Harry Jones
1941
as Wilmer Cook
1953
1968
as Mr. Nicklas
1953
as Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey
1968
as Self (archive footage)
1963
as Gideon Smith / Micah Smith
1941
as Joe (elevator operator)
1979
as The Patron (Dexter)
1941
as Harry Williams
1972
as Sam
1952
as Eddie Forbes
1963
as Joe
1975
as Charlie
1980
as On-Your-Mark
1973
as Willie
1947
as Oval
1973
as Carl
1947
as Marty
1972
as Bunker (as Elisha Cook)
1945
as Kirk Otto
1982
as Eli the Taxi Driver
1957
as Homer van Meter
1957
as Skeets Jonas
1944
as Cleeve
1940
as Joe Briggs
1941
as Waiter
1957
as Willie
1956
as 'Whitey' Pollock
1959
as Larry Teter, Town Barber
1972
as Mickey Crawford
1959
as Watson Pritchard
1944
as Cliff Milburn
1942
as Frank Lucas
1946
as Sam Collins
1976
as Eddie
1947
as Joe
1947
as Frank Dunlap
1957
as Martin Schuyler
1957
as Candymouth Duggan
1946
as Nick
1949
as Roper
1961
as Carvey
1937
as Joe Turner
1949
as Klipspringer
1963
as Underworld Leader
1960
as Ted Blake
1936
as Herbert Van Dyke
1975
as Wilmer Cook
1977
as Karel
1955
as Briggs (as Elisha Cook)
1970
as Old Convict
1946
as Fly Feletti
1944
as Whitey
1977
as Sweeper
1954
as Blaine Crackel
1975
as Finley
1937
as McBain, the chemist
1960
as Harry Nesbit
1951
as Albert Jonas
1940
as Dicky Brown
2022
as Watson Pritchard (voice) (Archival)
1986
as Self (from Don't Bother to Knock [1952]) (archive footage)
1945
as Jimmy Lobo
1964
as Ellen's father
1981
as Jetter
1938
as Seaman Rutherford Davis Pratt, aka 'The Professor'
1984
as Mr. Maps
1953
as Joseph Standish
1938
as Danny
1970
1942
as Harold 'Chicopee' Nevins
1938
as Waldo
1955
as Punky (as Elisha Cook)
1937
as Tony Stevens
1953
as Bobo
1937
as Glen Wylie
1936
as Skeeter
1940
as Communist
1963
as Mr. Keith
1982
as Hotel Desk Clerk
1955
as Finn
1970
as Willie Peanuts
1944
as Info Jones
1946
as Oliver S. Patch
1939
as Robert Austin / Norman Hazlitt
1974
as Studio Engineer (uncredited)
1954
as Lewis 'Tulsa' Cook
1979
as Georgie
1972
as Micah
1970
as Proprietor
1937
as Oliver ("Ollie") Stearns Jr.
1942
as Genius
1940
as Joe Codd
1941
as Hotel Clerk
1930
as Member of the Glee Club
1942
as Gillman
1937
as Egbert Eggleston
1964
as Tex
1941
as Piano Player (uncredited)
1960
as Harry Elser
1967
as Hanson
1987
as Pappy Glue
1980
as Stable Hand
1973
as Cody
1938
as Boy on Bench (uncredited)
1984
as Novatney
1941
as Harry Selby
1942
as Ernie
1931
as Office Boy (uncredited)
1983
as Eddie
1946
as Eugene
1964
as Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1973
as Gray Cat
1975
as Mr. Boyle
1981
as Sgt. Billy
1982
as Mousy ("Municipalians")
1969
as Jeb
1943
as Bill (uncredited)
1967
as Arnold
1984
as Mr. Bibbs
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