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Elisha Cook Jr.

April 09, 2024

Not to be confused with Elisha Cooke Jr.

Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr. (December 26, 1903 – May 18, 1995) was an American character actor famed for his work in films noir. According to Bill Georgaris of They Shoot Pictures, Don't They,[citation needed] Cook appeared in a total of 21 films noir, more than any other actor or actress. He played cheerful, brainy collegiates until he was cast against type as the bug-eyed baby-faced psychopathic killer Wilmer Cook in the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon. [1] He went on to play deceptively mild-mannered villains. Cook's acting career spanned more than 60 years, with roles in productions including The Big Sleep, Shane, The Killing, House on Haunted Hill, and Rosemary's Baby.

Elisha Cook Jr.
Cook in Dillinger (1945)
Born
Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr.

(1903-12-26)December 26, 1903
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedMay 18, 1995(1995-05-18) (aged 91)
Big Pine, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1926–1988
Spouses
Mary Gertrude Dunckley
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(m. 1928; div. 1941)​
Peggy McKenna
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(m. 1943; div. 1968)​
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(m. 1971)​

Early life, stage, and military service edit

 
Around the table in the Theatre Guild's original 1933 Broadway production of Ah, Wilderness! are (from left) George M. Cohan, Eda Heinemann, Elisha Cook, Jr., Gene Lockhart, Marjorie Marquis, Walter Vonnegut, Jr. and Adelaide Bean.

Cook was born in December 1903 in San Francisco, California, the son of Elisha Vanslyck Cook Sr., a pharmacist, and grew up in Chicago. He first worked in theater lobbies selling programs, but by the age of 14 he was already performing in vaudeville and stock.[2] As a young man, he traveled and honed his acting skills on stages along the East Coast and in the Midwest before arriving in New York City, where in 1926 he debuted on Broadway in Hello, Lola.[citation needed] Some other Broadway productions in which Cook performed were Henry-Behave (1926), Kingdom of God (1928), Her Unborn Child (1928), Many a Slip (1930), Privilege Car (1931), Lost Boy (1932), Merry-Go-Round (1932), and Chrysalis (1932).[citation needed] Then, in 1933, Eugene O'Neill cast him in the role of Richard Miller in his play Ah, Wilderness, which ran on Broadway for two years.[1] Cook continued to appear on stage during the remainder of the 1930s; and although his acting career after that focused increasingly on films and then on television roles, he periodically returned to Broadway, where as late as 1963 he performed as Giuseppe Givola in Bertolt Brecht's play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.[citation needed]

Cook enlisted in the United States Army in Los Angeles, California, on August 15, 1942.[3] According to his enlistment record he stood 5-feet-5-inches tall and weighed 123 pounds.[4] Cook's military record documents his level of education at "3 years of high school."[3] Some online references[citation needed] state that he had attended "St. Albans College," "The Chicago Academy of Dramatic Art," and "The Chicago Academy of Fine Arts," which had been renamed the Art Institute of Chicago in 1882.

Career in film edit

In 1930, Cook traveled to California, where he made his film debut in Hollywood's version of the play Her Unborn Child, a motion picture directed by Albert Ray and produced by Windsor Picture Plays Inc.[5]

At Twentieth Century-Fox, Cook made an impression as a bespectacled college freshman with radical ideas in the musical comedy Pigskin Parade (1936). He was also featured in the unofficial sequel, Life Begins in College (1937). Cook remained at Fox for two years, and then began freelancing at other studios. He did return to Fox occasionally in prominent roles: as a songwriter in the Alice Faye-Betty Grable musical Tin Pan Alley (1940), and as a mobster disguised as an old woman in the Laurel and Hardy feature A-Haunting We Will Go (1942). Typical of his early, bookish roles was his turn as a meek screenwriter in the madcap Olsen and Johnson comedy Hellzapoppin (1941).

After The Maltese Falcon, Cook became typecast again, as weaklings or sadistic losers and hoodlums, who in the plots were usually murdered, either being strangled, poisoned or shot. In Universal's Phantom Lady (1944), he portrays a slimy, intoxicated nightclub-orchestra drummer to memorable effect. He received excellent notices for his portrayal of a happy, breezy disc jockey who turns out to be a homicidal maniac in The Falcon's Alibi (1946). He also had a substantial, though uncredited role as Bobo in the 1953 film noir production I, the Jury.[citation needed]

 
Cook in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
 
Cook meeting a typical sticky end at the hands of Lawrence Tierney in Born to Kill (1947)

In addition to his performance as Wilmer in The Maltese Falcon (1941), some of Cook's other notable roles include the doomed informant Harry Jones in The Big Sleep (1946), the henchman (Marty Waterman) of the murderous title character in Born to Kill (1947), the pugnacious ex-Confederate soldier 'Stonewall' Torrey who is gunned down by Jack Palance in Shane (1953), and George Peatty, the shady, cuckolded husband in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956). Other films in which he appeared are William Castle's horror film House on Haunted Hill (1959), One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Papa's Delicate Condition (1963), Blood on the Arrow (1964), Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Great Bank Robbery (1969), El Condor (1970), Blacula (1972), The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), The Outfit (1973), Tom Horn (1980), and Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse (1984).[citation needed]

Television edit

Cook appeared on a wide variety of American television series from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. He played a private detective, Homer Garrity, in an episode of Adventures of Superman television series titled "Semi-Private Eye," airing for the first time on January 16, 1954. That same year, on April 12, he guest-starred on NBC's The Dennis Day Show. In 1960, he was cast in the episode "The Hermit" of the ABC sitcom The Real McCoys with Walter Brennan. He appeared too in 1960 as Jeremy Hake in the episode "The Bequest" of the ABC western series The Rebel, which starred Nick Adams. He also portrayed the character Gideon McCoy in the 1966 episode "The Night of the Bars of Hell" on The Wild Wild West. He performed as well in the second episode of ABC's crime drama The Fugitive.

Cook made two guest appearances on the CBS courtroom drama series Perry Mason. In 1958, he played Art Crowley in "The Case of the Pint-Sized Client", and in 1964 he played Reelin' Peter Rockwell in "The Case of the Reckless Rockhound". Cook portrayed lawyer Samuel T. Cogley in the Star Trek 1967 episode "Court Martial", Isaac Isaacson on the Batman television series, Weasel Craig in Salem's Lot, and later had a long-term recurring role as Honolulu crime lord "Ice Pick" on CBS's Magnum, P.I. In October 1969 Cook appeared as Frankie in episode 33 of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir. In 1974 he made a surprise guest appearance on The Odd Couple as government agent Eliot Ness. He appeared too in The Bionic Woman episode "Once a Thief" in 1977.[citation needed]

Toward the end of his life, Cook often played dimwitted or cranky elderly characters. He played a bum in an episode of The A-Team as well as an elderly uncle in an episode of Alf, which was one of his last roles prior to his retirement entirely from acting in 1988, followed by his death seven years later.

Personal life edit

Cook was married to singer Mary Gertrude Dunckley (known professionally as Mary Lou Cook of the popular vocal quartet The Merry Macs) from 1928 until their divorce on November 4, 1941.[6] He then married Illinois native Elvira Ann (Peggy) McKenna in 1943. The couple were married for twenty-five years until they formally divorced in Inyo County, California, in February 1968. They remarried on December 30, 1971.[7] Their second marriage lasted another nineteen years until Peggy's death on December 23, 1990. Various references about Cook state that he had no children from his marriages; yet, his army enlistment record of 1942 documents his marital status as "Divorced, with dependents," which suggests he may have had a child or children with his first wife, or been responsible for the well-being of others.[3]

Cook never became part of the Hollywood social scene, which he held in low regard. His slight build and calm demeanor belied his offscreen status as a rugged outdoorsman. He resided for many years in Bishop, California, but he typically spent his summers at Lake Sabrina in the Sierra Nevada.[1] According to John Huston, who in 1941 directed him in The Maltese Falcon:

[Cook] lived alone up in the High Sierra, tied flies and caught golden trout between films. When he was wanted in Hollywood, they sent word up to his mountain cabin by courier. He would come down, do a picture, and then withdraw again to his retreat.[8]

Death edit

Elisha Cook, Jr. died of a stroke at age 91, on May 18, 1995, at a nursing home in Big Pine, California. He was the last surviving member of the main cast of The Maltese Falcon.[1]

Complete filmography edit

Television credits edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Thomas Jr., Robert McG. (May 21, 1995). "Elisha Cook Jr., Villain in Many Films, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Elisha Cook Jr., whose intense, bug-eyed portrayal of Wilmer, the psychotic, baby-faced killer in The Maltese Falcon, made him a cult figure to a generation of moviegoers, died on Thursday at a nursing home in Big Pine, California. He was 91. He was the last surviving cast member of John Huston's 1941 film noir classic, whose company included Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Mary Astor.
  2. ^ Folkart, Burt A. (1995). "Elisha Cook Jr., 91; Classic Movie Villain", Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1995. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938–1946: Cook Jr, Elisha V., enlistment date August 15, 1942, Los Angeles, California, United States; merged database with "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938–1946," Access to Archival Databases (AAD), National Archives and Records Administration (2002), National Archives, College Park, Maryland. Transcription of enlistment record available at FamilySearch, a free online genealogical database by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah. Retrieved July 30, 2017.
  4. ^ WWII US Army Enlistment Records, 1938–46
  5. ^ "Her Unborn Child (1930)", Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc., New York City, New York. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  6. ^ Long Beach Independent; May 30, 1944; Page 10; Find Liver Ailment Causes Singers Death
  7. ^ "California Divorce Index, 1966–1984", divorce of Elvira A. McKenna and Elisha V. Cook, February 1968, Inyo County, California. California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, CA. Transcribed document available on FamilySearch, a free online genealogical database provided as a free public service by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah. Retrieved July 30, 2017.
  8. ^ Huston, John (1994). An Open Book. Da Capo Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-306-80573-8.

Further reading edit

  • Young, Jordan R. (1986) [First published 1975]. "Elisha Cook Jr.". Reel Characters : Great Movie Character Actors (softcover) (Sixth ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Moonstone Press. pp. 13–28. ISBN 978-0-940410-79-4.

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Baby Elisha Cook Jr Cook in Dillinger 1945 BornElisha Vanslyck Cook Jr 1903 12 26 December 26 1903San Francisco California U S DiedMay 18 1995 1995 05 18 aged 91 Big Pine California U S OccupationActorYears active1926 1988SpousesMary Gertrude Dunckley m 1928 div 1941 wbr Peggy McKenna m 1943 div 1968 wbr m 1971 wbr Contents 1 Early life stage and military service 2 Career in film 3 Television 4 Personal life 5 Death 6 Complete filmography 7 Television credits 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External linksEarly life stage and military service edit nbsp Around the table in the Theatre Guild s original 1933 Broadway production of Ah Wilderness are from left George M Cohan Eda Heinemann Elisha Cook Jr Gene Lockhart Marjorie Marquis Walter Vonnegut Jr and Adelaide Bean Cook was born in December 1903 in San Francisco California the son of Elisha Vanslyck Cook Sr a pharmacist and grew up in Chicago He first worked in theater lobbies selling programs but by the age of 14 he was already performing in vaudeville and stock 2 As a young man he traveled and honed his acting skills on stages along the East Coast and in the Midwest before arriving in New York City where in 1926 he debuted on Broadway in Hello Lola citation needed Some other Broadway productions in which Cook performed were Henry Behave 1926 Kingdom of God 1928 Her Unborn Child 1928 Many a Slip 1930 Privilege Car 1931 Lost Boy 1932 Merry Go Round 1932 and Chrysalis 1932 citation needed Then in 1933 Eugene O Neill cast him in the role of Richard Miller in his play Ah Wilderness which ran on Broadway for two years 1 Cook continued to appear on stage during the remainder of the 1930s and although his acting career after that focused increasingly on films and then on television roles he periodically returned to Broadway where as late as 1963 he performed as Giuseppe Givola in Bertolt Brecht s play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui citation needed Cook enlisted in the United States Army in Los Angeles California on August 15 1942 3 According to his enlistment record he stood 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 123 pounds 4 Cook s military record documents his level of education at 3 years of high school 3 Some online references citation needed state that he had attended St Albans College The Chicago Academy of Dramatic Art and The Chicago Academy of Fine Arts which had been renamed the Art Institute of Chicago in 1882 Career in film editIn 1930 Cook traveled to California where he made his film debut in Hollywood s version of the play Her Unborn Child a motion picture directed by Albert Ray and produced by Windsor Picture Plays Inc 5 At Twentieth Century Fox Cook made an impression as a bespectacled college freshman with radical ideas in the musical comedy Pigskin Parade 1936 He was also featured in the unofficial sequel Life Begins in College 1937 Cook remained at Fox for two years and then began freelancing at other studios He did return to Fox occasionally in prominent roles as a songwriter in the Alice Faye Betty Grable musical Tin Pan Alley 1940 and as a mobster disguised as an old woman in the Laurel and Hardy feature A Haunting We Will Go 1942 Typical of his early bookish roles was his turn as a meek screenwriter in the madcap Olsen and Johnson comedy Hellzapoppin 1941 After The Maltese Falcon Cook became typecast again as weaklings or sadistic losers and hoodlums who in the plots were usually murdered either being strangled poisoned or shot In Universal s Phantom Lady 1944 he portrays a slimy intoxicated nightclub orchestra drummer to memorable effect He received excellent notices for his portrayal of a happy breezy disc jockey who turns out to be a homicidal maniac in The Falcon s Alibi 1946 He also had a substantial though uncredited role as Bobo in the 1953 film noir production I the Jury citation needed nbsp Cook in The Maltese Falcon 1941 nbsp Cook meeting a typical sticky end at the hands of Lawrence Tierney in Born to Kill 1947 In addition to his performance as Wilmer in The Maltese Falcon 1941 some of Cook s other notable roles include the doomed informant Harry Jones in The Big Sleep 1946 the henchman Marty Waterman of the murderous title character in Born to Kill 1947 the pugnacious ex Confederate soldier Stonewall Torrey who is gunned down by Jack Palance in Shane 1953 and George Peatty the shady cuckolded husband in Stanley Kubrick s The Killing 1956 Other films in which he appeared are William Castle s horror film House on Haunted Hill 1959 One Eyed Jacks 1961 Papa s Delicate Condition 1963 Blood on the Arrow 1964 Rosemary s Baby 1968 The Great Bank Robbery 1969 El Condor 1970 Blacula 1972 The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid 1972 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 The Outfit 1973 Tom Horn 1980 and Treasure In Search of the Golden Horse 1984 citation needed Television editCook appeared on a wide variety of American television series from the early 1950s to the late 1980s He played a private detective Homer Garrity in an episode of Adventures of Superman television series titled Semi Private Eye airing for the first time on January 16 1954 That same year on April 12 he guest starred on NBC s The Dennis Day Show In 1960 he was cast in the episode The Hermit of the ABC sitcom The Real McCoys with Walter Brennan He appeared too in 1960 as Jeremy Hake in the episode The Bequest of the ABC western series The Rebel which starred Nick Adams He also portrayed the character Gideon McCoy in the 1966 episode The Night of the Bars of Hell on The Wild Wild West He performed as well in the second episode of ABC s crime drama The Fugitive Cook made two guest appearances on the CBS courtroom drama series Perry Mason In 1958 he played Art Crowley in The Case of the Pint Sized Client and in 1964 he played Reelin Peter Rockwell in The Case of the Reckless Rockhound Cook portrayed lawyer Samuel T Cogley in the Star Trek 1967 episode Court Martial Isaac Isaacson on the Batman television series Weasel Craig in Salem s Lot and later had a long term recurring role as Honolulu crime lord Ice Pick on CBS s Magnum P I In October 1969 Cook appeared as Frankie in episode 33 of The Ghost amp Mrs Muir In 1974 he made a surprise guest appearance on The Odd Couple as government agent Eliot Ness He appeared too in The Bionic Woman episode Once a Thief in 1977 citation needed Toward the end of his life Cook often played dimwitted or cranky elderly characters He played a bum in an episode of The A Team as well as an elderly uncle in an episode of Alf which was one of his last roles prior to his retirement entirely from acting in 1988 followed by his death seven years later Personal life editCook was married to singer Mary Gertrude Dunckley known professionally as Mary Lou Cook of the popular vocal quartet The Merry Macs from 1928 until their divorce on November 4 1941 6 He then married Illinois native Elvira Ann Peggy McKenna in 1943 The couple were married for twenty five years until they formally divorced in Inyo County California in February 1968 They remarried on December 30 1971 7 Their second marriage lasted another nineteen years until Peggy s death on December 23 1990 Various references about Cook state that he had no children from his marriages yet his army enlistment record of 1942 documents his marital status as Divorced with dependents which suggests he may have had a child or children with his first wife or been responsible for the well being of others 3 Cook never became part of the Hollywood social scene which he held in low regard His slight build and calm demeanor belied his offscreen status as a rugged outdoorsman He resided for many years in Bishop California but he typically spent his summers at Lake Sabrina in the Sierra Nevada 1 According to John Huston who in 1941 directed him in The Maltese Falcon Cook lived alone up in the High Sierra tied flies and caught golden trout between films When he was wanted in Hollywood they sent word up to his mountain cabin by courier He would come down do a picture and then withdraw again to his retreat 8 Death editElisha Cook Jr died of a stroke at age 91 on May 18 1995 at a nursing home in Big Pine California He was the last surviving member of the main cast of The Maltese Falcon 1 Complete filmography editHer Unborn Child 1930 as Stewart Kennedy film debut Chills and Fever 1930 short as Member of the Glee Club uncredited Honor Among Lovers 1931 as Office Boy uncredited Two in a Crowd 1936 as Skeeter Pigskin Parade 1936 as Herbert Van Dyke Breezing Home 1937 as Pete Espinosa uncredited Love Is News 1937 as Egbert Eggleston The Devil Is Driving 1937 as Tony Stevens They Won t Forget 1937 as Joe Turner Wife Doctor and Nurse 1937 as Glen Wylie Danger Love at Work 1937 as Chemist Life Begins in College 1937 as Ollie Stearns Thoroughbreds Don t Cry 1937 as Boots Maguire uncredited Three Blind Mice 1938 as Boy on Bench uncredited My Lucky Star 1938 as Waldo Submarine Patrol 1938 as Seaman Rutherford Davis Pratt aka The Professor Newsboys Home 1938 as Danny Grand Jury Secrets 1939 as Robert Austin Norman Hazlitt He Married His Wife 1940 as Dicky Brown Stranger on the Third Floor 1940 as Joe Briggs Public Deb No 1 1940 as Communist Tin Pan Alley 1940 as Joe Codd Love Crazy 1941 as Elevator Man Sergeant York 1941 as Piano Player uncredited Man at Large 1941 as Hotel Clerk The Maltese Falcon 1941 as Wilmer Cook I Wake Up Screaming 1941 as Harry Williams Hellzapoppin 1941 as Harry Selby Ball of Fire 1941 as Waiter A Gentleman at Heart 1942 as Genius Sleepytime Gal 1942 as Ernie A Haunting We Will Go 1942 as Frank Lucas Wildcat 1942 as Harold Chicopee Nevins Manila Calling 1942 as Gillman Kill or Be Killed 1942 Baptism of Fire 1943 documentary as Bill Phantom Lady 1944 as Cliff Up in Arms 1944 as Info Jones Dark Mountain 1944 as Whitey Dark Waters 1944 as Cleeve Dillinger 1945 as Kirk Otto Why Girls Leave Home 1945 as Jimmy Lobo Blonde Alibi 1946 as Sam Collins Cinderella Jones 1946 as Oliver S Patch The Falcon s Alibi 1946 as Nick Joe Palooka Champ 1946 as Eugene Two Smart People 1946 as Fly Feletti The Big Sleep 1946 as Harry Jones Fall Guy 1947 as Joe Born to Kill 1947 as Marty The Long Night 1947 as Frank Dunlap The Gangster 1947 as Oval Flaxy Martin 1949 as Roper The Great Gatsby 1949 as Klipspringer Behave Yourself 1951 as Albert Jonas Don t Bother to Knock 1952 as Eddie Forbes Shane 1953 as Stonewall Torrey I the Jury 1953 as Bobo uncredited Thunder Over the Plains 1953 as Joseph Standish The Outlaw s Daughter 1954 as Lewis Tulsa Cook Drum Beat 1954 as Blaine Crackel Timberjack 1955 as Punky Trial 1955 as Finn The Indian Fighter 1955 as Briggs Indian Agent 1955 TV movie as Pete the Cavalry Scout uncredited The Killing 1956 as George Peatty Accused of Murder 1956 as Whitey Pollock Voodoo Island 1957 as Martin Schuyler The Lonely Man 1957 as Willie Chicago Confidential 1957 as Candymouth Duggan Plunder Road 1957 as Skeets Jonas Baby Face Nelson 1957 as Homer van Meter House on Haunted Hill 1959 as Watson Pritchard Day of the Outlaw 1959 as Larry Teter town barber Platinum High School 1960 as Harry Nesbit College Confidential 1960 as Ted Blake One Eyed Jacks 1961 as Carvey Papa s Delicate Condition 1963 as Mr Keith Black Zoo 1963 as Joe The Haunted Palace 1963 as Peter Smith Micah Smith Johnny Cool 1963 as Undertaker The Judge 1963 TV movie The Glass Cage 1964 as Girl s father Blood on the Arrow 1964 as Tex McNab s Lab 1966 TV movie as Coach The Spy in the Green Hat 1967 as Arnold Welcome to Hard Times 1967 as Hanson Rosemary s Baby 1968 as Mr Nicklas Cry for Poor Wally 1969 as Preacher The Great Bank Robbery 1969 as Jeb The Movie Murderer 1970 TV movie as Willie Peanuts El Condor 1970 as Old Convict Night Slaves 1970 TV movie Night Chase 1970 TV movie as Proprietor The Scarecrow 1972 TV movie as Micah The Night Stalker 1972 TV movie as Mickey Crawford The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid 1972 as Bunker Blacula 1972 as Sam Messiah of Evil 1973 as Charlie Pat Garrett amp Billy the Kid 1973 as Cody Emperor of the North Pole 1973 as Gray Cat Electra Glide in Blue 1973 as Willie The Outfit 1973 as Carl The Phantom of Hollywood 1974 TV movie as Studio Engineer uncredited Winterhawk 1975 as Finley The Black Bird 1975 as Wilmer Cook Senior Power and how to use it 1975 as Henry Boyle St Ives 1976 as Eddie Dead of Night 1977 TV movie as Karel Mad Bull 1977 TV movie as Sweeper The Champ 1979 as Georgie Salem s Lot 1979 TV movie as Gordon Weasel Phillips 1941 1979 as The Patron Dexter Tom Horn 1980 as Stablehand Carny 1980 as On Your Mark Harry s War 1981 as Sgt Billy Leave em Laughing 1981 TV movie as Jetter National Lampoon s Movie Madness 1982 as Mousy Municipalians Hammett 1982 as Eli the Taxi Driver Terror at Alcatraz 1982 TV movie as Hotel Desk Clerk This Girl for Hire 1983 TV movie as Eddie Shadow of Sam Penny 1983 TV movie as Dutch Silver Off Sides Pigs vs Freaks 1984 TV movie as Novatney It Came Upon the Midnight Clear 1984 TV movie as Mr Bibbs Treasure In Search of the Golden Horse 1984 as Mr Maps The Man Who Broke 1 000 Chains 1987 TV movie as Pappy GlueTelevision credits editAdventures of Superman in Semi Private Eye January 16 1954 as Homer Garrity Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955 Season 1 Episode 6 Salvage as Shorty The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Guns McCallum Perry Mason in The Case of the Pint Sized Client 1958 as Art Crowley Gunsmoke in Matt for Murder 1958 as Huggins Gunsmoke in Odd Man Out 1959 as Cyrus Tucker Rawhide 1959 as Bain Bat Masterson in No Funeral For Thorn 1959 as Thorn Loomis playing Bat s long time friend in a rare good guy role The Real McCoys in The Hermit 1960 as Harry Peter Gunn in The Long Long Ride 1960 as Snooker Wagon Train in The Tracy Sadler Story 1960 as Cadge Waldo Tightrope in The Long Odds 1960 as Sam Parker Tombstone Territory in The Witness 1960 as Adam Kirby The Rebel in The Bequest 1960 as Jeremy Hake Thriller in The Fatal Impulse 1960 as The Assassin The Islanders in The Twenty Six Paper 1961 as Tomas Surfside 6 in Witness for the Defense 1961 as Mike Pulaski The Deputy in Brand of Honesty 1961 as Miller Laramie in The Tumbleweed Wagon 1961 as Doc Rawhide 1961 Joel Turner in S3 E22 Incident in the Middle of Nowhere Outlaws in The Dark Sunrise of Griff Kincaid 1962 as Cully The Dakotas in A Nice Girl from Goliath 1963 as Brinkman Gunsmoke in Hung High 1964 as George Gunsmoke in Breckinridge 1965 as Jackie Beal S10E25 The Wild Wild West in The Night of the Double Edged Knife 1965 as Mike McGreavy and The Night of the Bars of Hell 1966 as Gideon McCoy Star Trek in Court Martial 1967 as Samuel T Cogley Esq The Ghost amp Mrs Muir in Not So Desperate Hours as Frankie The Odd Couple in Our Fathers 1974 as Eliot Ness Starsky amp Hutch in Lady Blue 1975 as Polly the snitch The Bionic Woman in Once a Thief 1977 as Inky credited as Elisha Cook Insight in The Trouble with Grandpa 1982 as Grandpa Magnum P I 1980s as Francis Ice Pick Hofstetler in 13 episodes final television appearance Night Court in Married Alive 1985 as Wilbur Posten The Twilight Zone in Welcome to Winfield 1986 as Weldon The A Team 1985 in Season 4 Ep 5 Road To Hope as Jim Beam ALF in We re So Sorry Uncle Albert 1988 as Uncle AlbertReferences edit a b c d Thomas Jr Robert McG May 21 1995 Elisha Cook Jr Villain in Many Films Dies at 91 The New York Times Elisha Cook Jr whose intense bug eyed portrayal of Wilmer the psychotic baby faced killer in The Maltese Falcon made him a cult figure to a generation of moviegoers died on Thursday at a nursing home in Big Pine California He was 91 He was the last surviving cast member of John Huston s 1941 film noir classic whose company included Humphrey Bogart Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre and Mary Astor Folkart Burt A 1995 Elisha Cook Jr 91 Classic Movie Villain Los Angeles Times May 20 1995 Retrieved July 31 2017 a b c United States World War II Army Enlistment Records 1938 1946 Cook Jr Elisha V enlistment date August 15 1942 Los Angeles California United States merged database with Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File ca 1938 1946 Access to Archival Databases AAD National Archives and Records Administration 2002 National Archives College Park Maryland Transcription of enlistment record available at FamilySearch a free online genealogical database by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Salt Lake City Utah Retrieved July 30 2017 WWII US Army Enlistment Records 1938 46 Her Unborn Child 1930 Turner Classic Movies TCM Turner Broadcasting System a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc New York City New York Retrieved July 31 2017 Long Beach Independent May 30 1944 Page 10 Find Liver Ailment Causes Singers Death California Divorce Index 1966 1984 divorce of Elvira A McKenna and Elisha V Cook February 1968 Inyo County California California Department of Health Services Sacramento CA Transcribed document available on FamilySearch a free online genealogical database provided as a free public service by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Salt Lake City Utah Retrieved July 30 2017 Huston John 1994 An Open Book Da Capo Press p 79 ISBN 978 0 306 80573 8 Further reading editYoung Jordan R 1986 First published 1975 Elisha Cook Jr Reel Characters Great Movie Character Actors softcover Sixth ed Beverly Hills CA Moonstone Press pp 13 28 ISBN 978 0 940410 79 4 External links editPortals nbsp Theatre nbsp Film nbsp Television nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elisha Cook Jr Elisha Cook Jr at Memory Alpha Elisha Cook Jr at IMDb Elisha Cook Jr at the Internet Broadway Database nbsp Elisha Cook Jr at Turner Classic Movies Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Elisha Cook Jr amp oldid 1208569181, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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