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Elisha Cook Jr.(1903-1995)

  • Actor
  • Soundtrack
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Elisha Cook Jr.
Trailer for Electra Glide in Blue
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Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
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99+ Photos
Although this pint-sized actor started out in films often in innocuous college-student roles in mid-30s rah-rahs, playing alongside the likes of a pretty Gloria Stuart or a young, pre-"Oz" Judy Garland, casting directors would soon enough discover his flair for portraying intense neurotics or spineless double-dealers. Thus was he graduated from the innocuous to the noxious. In Warners' They Won't Forget (1937), for example, he plays the role of a student whose social engagement with a young Lana Turner, debuting here in a featured role, seems to have been broken by her whereas, possibly unbeknownst to him, she has quite mysteriously been murdered. Cook becomes so enraged, venting such venom, that the movie audience can only look upon him as a prime suspect in Lana's demise. In Universal's Phantom Lady (1944), he portrays a nightclub-orchestra drummer who, under the intoxicating influence of some substance or other, encounters Ella Raines during an afternoon's band practice. Thoroughly taken with her slinky allure, he enacts a drum-solo piece that is of such crescendo, and played with such innuendo, as to suggest - glaringly - nothing except his own fantasized sexual journey from cymbal foreplay through bass-drum climax.
BornDecember 26, 1903
DiedMay 18, 1995(91)
BornDecember 26, 1903
DiedMay 18, 1995(91)
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Lucille Ball and Elisha Cook Jr. in Two Smart People (1946)
Lucille Ball and Elisha Cook Jr. in Two Smart People (1946)
Elisha Cook Jr. in Two Smart People (1946)
Lucille Ball and Elisha Cook Jr. in Two Smart People (1946)
Elisha Cook Jr. in Two Smart People (1946)
Lucille Ball and Elisha Cook Jr. in Two Smart People (1946)
Lucille Ball and Elisha Cook Jr. in Two Smart People (1946)
Elisha Cook Jr. and John Hodiak in Two Smart People (1946)
Elisha Cook Jr. in Two Smart People (1946)
Elisha Cook Jr. in McCloud (1970)
Elisha Cook Jr. and Dennis Weaver in McCloud (1970)
Elisha Cook Jr. and Robert H. Harris in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)

Known for

Vincent Price and Carolyn Craig in House on Haunted Hill (1959)
House on Haunted Hill
6.8
  • Watson Pritchard(as Elisha Cook)
  • 1959
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Rosemary's Baby
8.0
  • Mr. Nicklas(as Elisha Cook)
  • 1968
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946)
The Big Sleep
7.9
  • Harry Jones
  • 1946
Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon
8.0
  • Wilmer Cook
  • 1941

Credits

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Actor

  • Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I. (1980)
    Magnum, P.I.
    • (as Elisha Cook)
  • Paul Fusco and Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros in ALF (1986)
    ALF
    • (as Elisha Cook)
  • The Man Who Broke 1, 000 Chains (1987)
    The Man Who Broke 1, 000 Chains
  • Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker in Simon & Simon (1981)
    Simon & Simon
  • The Fall Guy (1981)
    The Fall Guy
  • The Twilight Zone (1985)
    The Twilight Zone
    • (as Elisa Cook)
  • George Peppard, Mr. T, Dirk Benedict, and Dwight Schultz in The A-Team (1983)
    The A-Team
    • (as Elisha Cook)
  • Harry Anderson, Selma Diamond, Ellen Foley, John Larroquette, Richard Moll, and Charles Robinson in Night Court (1984)
    Night Court
    • (as Elisha Cook)
  • Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse (1984)
    Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse
  • It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984)
    It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
    • (as Elisha Cook)
  • Andrea Elson and Matthew Labyorteaux in Whiz Kids (1983)
    Whiz Kids
    • (as Elisha Cook)
  • This Girl for Hire (1983)
    This Girl for Hire
    • (as Elisha Cook)
  • Insight (1960)
    Insight
    • (as Elisha Cook)
  • Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982)
    Bring 'Em Back Alive
    • (as Elisha Cook)
  • Diana Muldaur, Dick Smothers, and Tom Smothers in Terror at Alcatraz (1982)
    Terror at Alcatraz

Soundtrack

  • Craig Stevens in Peter Gunn (1958)
    Peter Gunn
    • (uncredited)
  • Betty Grable, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, and John Payne in Tin Pan Alley (1940)
    Tin Pan Alley

Videos3

Electra Glide in Blue
Trailer 3:26
Electra Glide in Blue
Rosemary's Baby
Trailer 1:38
Rosemary's Baby
The Killing: The Criterion Collection
Trailer 1:34
The Killing: The Criterion Collection

Personal details

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    • December 26, 1903
    • San Francisco, California, USA
    • May 18, 1995
    • Big Pine, California, USA(stroke)
    • December 30, 1971 - December 23, 1990 (her death)
    • (No Children)
  • Other works
    Stage: Appeared (as "Joe Bullitt"; credited as Elisha Cook; Broadway debut) in "Hello, Lola" on Broadway. Musical comedy. Book / lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. From "Seventeen" by Booth Tarkington. Based on the stage adaptation of "Seventeen" by Hugh Stanislaus Stange and Stannard Mears. Music by William Kernell. Musical Director: Charles Sieger. Directed by Seymour Felix. Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre: (moved to Maxine Elliott's Theatre from 8 Feb 1926 to close): 12 Jan 1926-20 Feb 1926 (47 performances). Cast: Avis Adair, Earl Atkinson, Edythe Baker, Sylvia Carol, Dorothy Casey, Kittye Casey, Lillian Clerke, Cullen Clewis, George Crouch, Don DeFrancis, Nanette Flack, Jay C. Flippen (as "Genesis"), Ben Franklin, Bert Gardner, Ben Hendricks Jr., Richard Keene, Constance Lahleet, Nancy Lea, Frances Mildern, Albert Miller, Betty Noi, Dorothy Palmer, Virginia Ray, Diddie Read, Beatrice Reiss, Wyn Richmond (as "May Parcher"), Howard Shea, Cora Stephens, Wally Stewart, George E. Stone (credited as Georgie Stone; as "Johnnie Watson"), Margaret Brooke Sullivan, Larry Vale, Katherine Vercelle, Louise Vercelle, Marjorie White, Harry Wood, Emma Wyche. Produced by Lee Shubert and J.J. Shubert.
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    • 1 Article

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    Married to his second wife, Peggy, for 25 years before they divorced. About three years later, they remarried and remained together for another 19 years until she passed away.
    • Intense scared look (usually in his horror movies).

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