Elisha Cook Jr.(1903-1995)
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Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
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)
House on Haunted Hill
Watson Pritchard(as Elisha Cook)
Mr. Nicklas(as Elisha Cook)
Harry Jones
Wilmer Cook
Francis 'Ice Pick' Hofstetler
Harold W. Farber
Wilmer (as Elisha Cook)
Uncle Albert (as Elisha Cook)
The Man Who Broke 1, 000 Chains
Pappy Glue
Simon & Simon
Bradley Bishop
Dutch Silver
Whitman the Counterfeiter
Weldon (segment "Welcome to Winfield") (as Elisa Cook)
Jim Beam (as Elisha Cook)
Wilbur Posten (as Elisha Cook)
Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse
Mr. Maps
Mr. Bibbs (as Elisha Cook)
Whiz Kids
Sid (as Elisha Cook)
This Girl for Hire
Eddie (as Elisha Cook)
Old Man (as Elisha Cook)
Bring 'Em Back Alive
Wilmer Bass (as Elisha Cook)
Terror at Alcatraz
Hotel desk clerk
Peter Gunn
performer: "Shall We Gather At The River?" (uncredited)
Tin Pan Alley
performer: "You Say The Sweetest Things (Baby)" (1940), "Good-Bye Broadway, Hello France" (1917)
Electra Glide in Blue
The Killing: The Criterion Collection
Elisa Cook
San Francisco, California, USA
Big Pine, California, USA(stroke)
Elvira Ann (Peggy) McKenna December 30, 1971 - December 23, 1990 (her death)
Elisha Vanslyck Cook Sr.
Unknown (No Children)
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.
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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