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

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

The Killing

as George Peatty

1946

The Big Sleep

as Harry Jones

1941

The Maltese Falcon

as Wilmer Cook

1968

Rosemary's Baby

as Mr. Nicklas

1953

Shane

as Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey

1968

The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)

1963

The Haunted Palace

as Gideon Smith / Micah Smith

1941

Love Crazy

as Joe (elevator operator)

1979

1941

as The Patron (Dexter)

1941

I Wake Up Screaming

as Harry Williams

1972

Blacula

as Sam

1952

Don't Bother to Knock

as Eddie Forbes

1963

Black Zoo

as Joe

1975

Messiah of Evil

as Charlie

1980

Carny

as On-Your-Mark

1947

1973

The Outfit

as Carl

1947

Born to Kill

as Marty

1972

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

as Bunker (as Elisha Cook)

1945

Dillinger

as Kirk Otto

1982

Hammett

as Eli the Taxi Driver

1957

Baby Face Nelson

as Homer van Meter

1957

Plunder Road

as Skeets Jonas

1944

Dark Waters

as Cleeve

1941

Ball of Fire

as Waiter

1957

1956

Accused of Murder

as 'Whitey' Pollock

1959

Day of the Outlaw

as Larry Teter, Town Barber

1972

The Night Stalker

as Mickey Crawford

1959

House on Haunted Hill

as Watson Pritchard

1944

Phantom Lady

as Cliff Milburn

1942

A-Haunting We Will Go

as Frank Lucas

1946

Blonde Alibi

as Sam Collins

1976

St. Ives

as Eddie

1947

Fall Guy

as Joe

1947

The Long Night

as Frank Dunlap

1957

Voodoo Island

as Martin Schuyler

1957

Chicago Confidential

as Candymouth Duggan

1949

Flaxy Martin

as Roper

1961

1937

They Won't Forget

as Joe Turner

1949

The Great Gatsby

as Klipspringer

1963

Johnny Cool

as Underworld Leader

1960

1936

Pigskin Parade

as Herbert Van Dyke

1975

The Black Bird

as Wilmer Cook

1977

1955

The Indian Fighter

as Briggs (as Elisha Cook)

1970

El Condor

as Old Convict

1946

Two Smart People

as Fly Feletti

1944

Dark Mountain

as Whitey

1977

Mad Bull

as Sweeper

1954

Drum Beat

as Blaine Crackel

1975

Winterhawk

as Finley

1937

Danger – Love at Work

as McBain, the chemist

1960

Platinum High School

as Harry Nesbit

1951

Behave Yourself!

as Albert Jonas

1940

He Married His Wife

as Dicky Brown

2022

They Came from the Attic

as Watson Pritchard (voice) (Archival)

1986

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as Self (from Don't Bother to Knock [1952]) (archive footage)

1945

1964

The Glass Cage

as Ellen's father

1981

1938

Submarine Patrol

as Seaman Rutherford Davis Pratt, aka 'The Professor'

1953

Thunder Over the Plains

as Joseph Standish

1938

1942

Wildcat

as Harold 'Chicopee' Nevins

1938

1955

Timberjack

as Punky (as Elisha Cook)

1937

The Devil Is Driving

as Tony Stevens

1953

1937

1936

Two in a Crowd

as Skeeter

1940

Public Deb No. 1

as Communist

1982

Terror at Alcatraz

as Hotel Desk Clerk

1955

Trial

as Finn

1970

The Movie Murderer

as Willie Peanuts

1944

Up in Arms

as Info Jones

1946

Cinderella Jones

as Oliver S. Patch

1939

Grand Jury Secrets

as Robert Austin / Norman Hazlitt

1974

The Phantom of Hollywood

as Studio Engineer (uncredited)

1954

The Outlaw's Daughter

as Lewis 'Tulsa' Cook

1979

The Champ

as Georgie

1972

Scarecrow

as Micah

1970

Night Chase

as Proprietor

1937

Life Begins in College

as Oliver ("Ollie") Stearns Jr.

1940

Tin Pan Alley

as Joe Codd

1941

Man at Large

as Hotel Clerk

1930

Chills and Fever

as Member of the Glee Club

1942

Manila Calling

as Gillman

1937

Love Is News

as Egbert Eggleston

1941

Sergeant York

as Piano Player (uncredited)

1960

The Fatal Impulse

as Harry Elser

1980

Tom Horn

as Stable Hand

1938

Three Blind Mice

as Boy on Bench (uncredited)

1941

Hellzapoppin'

as Harry Selby

1942

1931

Honor Among Lovers

as Office Boy (uncredited)

1983

1946

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1973

1975

Senior Power

as Mr. Boyle

1981

Harry's War

as Sgt. Billy

1982

National Lampoon's Movie Madness

as Mousy ("Municipalians")

1943

Baptism of Fire

as Bill (uncredited)

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