Donald Cook

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-09-26 (60 years old)

Deathday

1961-10-01

Place of Birth

Portland, Oregon

Donald Cook

Biography

Donald Cook (September 26, 1901 – October 1, 1961) was an American stage and film actor. Born in Portland, Oregon, he originally studied farming but later started business with a lumber company. He joined the Kansas Community Players and through this received an offer of stage work. He started screen work in "shorts" before going on to films. Cook was known for his portrayal of Mike Powers in the film The Public Enemy. He also was one of the first film actors to portray Ellery Queen, in The Spanish Cape Mystery. He played opposite Helen Morgan in the 1936 film adaptation of Show Boat was one of the suspects in the Philo Vance mystery The Ca...

Acting

1936

Show Boat

as Steve Baker

1933

Baby Face

as Ned Stevens

1934

Viva Villa!

as Don Felipe de Castillo

1931

The Public Enemy

as Mike Powers

1935

1931

Safe in Hell

as Carl Bergen

1996

The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas

as Hunchback of Notre Dame

1933

Frisco Jenny

as Dan Reynolds

1932

The Penguin Pool Murder

as Philip Seymour

1950

Our Very Own

as Fred Macaulay

1931

Party Husband

as Horace Purcell

1935

Confidential

as FBI Agent Dave Elliott

1933

The Circus Queen Murder

as The Great Sebastian

1932

The Man Who Played God

as Harold Van Adam

1931

The Mad Genius

as Fedor Ivanoff

1935

Motive for Revenge

as Barry Webster

1933

1936

The Leavenworth Case

as Dr. Truman Harwell

1936

Beware Of Ladies

as George Martin

1945

Patrick the Great

as Pat Donahue Sr.

1933

Brief Moment

as Franklin Deane

1933

Jennie Gerhardt

as Lester Kane

1933

The World Changes

as Richard Nordholm

1934

The 9th Guest

as Jim Daley

1935

The Night Is Young

as Toni Berngruber

1936

Ellis Island

as Gary Curtis

1931

Side Show

as Joe Palmer

1937

Circus Girl

as Charles Jerome

1934

Long Lost Father

as Bill Strong

1931

Unfaithful

as Terry Houston

1932

The Conquerors

as Warren Lennox

1932

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

as John Sutherland

1934

Whirlpool

as Bob

1933

Fury of the Jungle

as 'Lucky' Allen

1935

Behind the Evidence

as Ward Cameron

1935

Here Comes the Band

as Don Trevor

1935

Murder in the Fleet

as Lieutenant Commander David Tucker

1936

The Girl from Mandalay

as Kenneth Grainger

1937

Two Wise Maids

as Bruce Arnold

1945

Blonde Ransom

as Duke Randall

1944

Bowery to Broadway

as Dennis Dugan

1934

Fugitive Lady

as Jack Howard

1933

1930

Roseland

as Jack

1936

Ring Around the Moon

as Ross Graham

1935

1945

Here Come the Co-Eds

as Dean Larry Benson

1931

Taxi!

as Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)

1934

Jealousy

as Mark Lambert

1935

Gigolette

as Gregg Emerson

1933

Private Jones

as Lt. John Gregg

1933

Fog

as Wentworth Brown

1936

Can This Be Dixie?

as Longstreet Butler

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