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Actors - Elisha Cook Jr.


Diminutive character actor Elisha Cook Jr. (born December 26, 1903 in San Francisco, California, USA, died May 18, 1995 in Big Pine, California) made a career playing cowardly villains and neurotics earning the nickname "Hollywood's lightest heavy". Cook started out in vaudeville and then became a Broadway actor. In 1936 he settled in Hollywood and, after playing a series of college-aged parts, began a long stint playing weaklings or sadistic loser-hoods: In Universal's Phantom Lady, he portrays a slimy, intoxicated nightclub-orchestra drummer. Other notable roles include the wannabe gangster in The Maltese Falcon, "pug ugly" Marty Waterman in Born to Kill (1947) , Harry Jones in The Big Sleep
(1946) and George Peatty, the hen-pecked husband to Marie Windsor
, in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing
(1956). His acting career spanned over sixty years.

Cook played a private detective in a 1953 episode of The Adventures of Superman TV series titled Semi-Private Eye. In the series DVD commentary, Jack Larson
describes this as his favorite episode, both for being allowed to play a self-styled Humphrey Bogart
-style shamus, and for the chance to work with "Cookie", who became a good friend.

Cook also had a long-term recurring role as Icepick on Magnum, P.I..

It's been said that Cook has been directed by more successful directors than any other actor:
  • 1982: Wim Wenders (Hammett)
  • 1979: Steven Spielberg
    (1941)
  • 1979: Tobe Hooper
    (Salem's Lot)
  • 1979: Franco Zeffirelli (The Champ)
  • 1976: J. Lee Thompson
    (St. Ives)
  • 1973: Robert Aldrich (Emperor of the North Pole)
  • 1973: Sam Peckinpah (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)
  • 1973: James William Guercio's only direction (Electra Glide in Blue)
  • 1968: Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby)
  • 1966: Richard Donner
    ("The Wild, Wild West" episode "Bars of Hell")
  • 1963: Roger Corman (The Haunted Palace)
  • 1961: Marlon Brando
    's only direction (One-Eyed Jacks)
  • 1960: John Cassavetes
    ("Johnny Staccato" episode "Solomon")
  • 1959: William Castle (House on Haunted Hill)
  • 1957: Don Siegel (Baby Face Nelson)
  • 1956: Stanley Kubrick (The Killing)
  • 1953: George Stevens (Shane)
  • 1947: Robert Wise (Born to Kill)
  • 1946: Howard Hawks (The Big Sleep)
  • 1946: Busby Berkeley (Cinderella Jones)
  • 1941: John Huston
    (The Maltese Falcon)
  • 1938: John Ford (Submarine Patrol)
  • 1937: Otto Preminger
    (Danger-Love at Work)
  • 1937: Mervyn LeRoy
    (They Won't Forget)

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