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Elisha Cook Jr.

Elisha Cook Jr.

Highest Rated: 100% Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

Lowest Rated: 0% National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1981)

Birthday: Dec 26, 1903

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA

Diminutive, wiry character player memorable for his numerous roles as cowardly villians and neurotics. Originally from vaudeville and the Broadway stage, Cook, who briefly entered films in 1929 before returning to the stage, made a strong impression with his definitive sniveling gunsel in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), and followed with similar roles as weaklings or sadistic loser-hoods: Harry Jones in "The Big Sleep" (1946) and George Peatty in Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing" (1956) over a more than sixty-year career.

Highest rated movies

100% Messiah of Evil
100% Don't Bother to Knock
100% Love Crazy
99% The Maltese Falcon
97% Shane 96% Rosemary's Baby 96% The Killing
96% The Big Sleep

Photos

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, Elisha Cook, Jr., 1959 BORN TO KILL, from left: Lawrence Tierney, Elisha Cook Jr., 1947 BEHAVE YOURSELF!, Elisha Cook Jr., Lon Chaney Jr., 1951 HAMMETT, Elisha Cook, 1983, (c)Warner Bros HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, Elisha Cook, Jr., 1959 I WAKE UP SCREAMING, Betty Grable, Elisha Cook, Jr., 1941. TM and Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. TIN PAN ALLEY, Elisha Cook, Jr., 1940, ©20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright TWO SMART PEOPLE, Lucille Ball, Elisha Cook Jr., 1946 CARNY, Elisha Cook Jr., 1980, (c) United Artists THE CHAMP, Elisha Cook, Jr., 1979, (c) MGM CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL, Beverly Tyler, Elisha Cook, Jr., 1957 THE KILLING, Elisha Cook Jr., 1956. BABY FACE NELSON, George E. Stone, Mickey Rooney, Elisha Cook Jr., 1957 TWO SMART PEOPLE, Elisha Cook Jr., Lucille Ball, 1946 TWO IN A CROWD, from left, Elisha Cook, Jr., Joel McCrea, Joan Bennett, 1936 BORN TO KILL, Claire Trevor, Elisha Cook Jr., Lawrence Tierney, 1947 TWO SMART PEOPLE, John Hodiak, Elisha Cook Jr., 1946 TWO SMART PEOPLE, Elisha Cook Jr., John Hodiak, Lloyd Nolan, 1946 STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR, Harry C. Bradley (far back left) Elisha Cook Jr. (left), Oscar O'Shea (off center right), 1940 THE MALTESE FALCON, Sydney Greenstreet, Humphrey Bogart, Elisha Cook, Jr., 1941
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 96% The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains Pappy Glue (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Helltown Goes Bananas Unknown (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Off Sides Novatney (Character) - 1984
77% 62% Hammett Eli (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Leave 'Em Laughing Jetter (Character) - 1981
0% 19% National Lampoon's Movie Madness Mousy (Character) - 1981
71% 70% Tom Horn Stablehand (Character) - 1980
57% 51% Carny On-Your-Mark (Character) - 1980
89% 65% Salem's Lot Gordon "Weasel" Phillips (Character) - 1979
40% 82% The Champ Georgie (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 30% Dead of Night Karel (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mad Bull Sweeper (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 73% Winterhawk Finley (Character) - 1976
100% 57% Messiah of Evil Charlie (Character) - 1975
27% 50% The Black Bird Wilmer Cook (Character) - 1975
64% 74% Electra Glide in Blue Willie (Character) - 1973
63% 85% Emperor of the North Gray Cat (Character) - 1973
73% 44% The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid Bunker (Character) - 1972
88% 77% The Night Stalker Mickey Crawford (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Night Chase Proprietor (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 35% El Condor Old Convict (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Movie Murderer Willie Peanuts (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 29% The Great Bank Robbery Jeb (Character) - 1969
96% 87% Rosemary's Baby Mr. Nicklas (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 42% Welcome to Hard Times Hanson (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blood on the Arrow Tex (Character) - 1964
50% 44% Johnny Cool Undertaker (Character) - 1963
75% 66% The Haunted Palace Peter Smith / Micah Smith (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 79% Papa's Delicate Condition Mr. Keith (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 20% Black Zoo Joe (Character) - 1963
61% 72% One-Eyed Jacks Carvey (Character) - 1961
79% 73% House on Haunted Hill Watson Pritchard (Character) $6.5K 1959
No Score Yet 11% Voodoo Island Martin Schuyler (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 0% Chicago Confidential Candymouth Duggan (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 18% The Lonely Man Willie (Character) - 1957
96% 92% The Killing George Peatty (as Elisha Cook) (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 83% Trial Finn (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 7% Drum Beat Blaine Crackel (Character) - 1954
97% 81% Shane Frank "Stonewall" Torrey (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 40% I, the Jury Bobo (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 55% Thunder Over the Plains Joseph Standish (Character) - 1953
100% 76% Don't Bother to Knock Eddie Forbes (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 33% Behave Yourself Albert Jonas (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 25% Flaxy Martin Roper (Character) - 1949
33% 41% The Great Gatsby Klipspringer (Character) - 1949
83% 75% Born to Kill Marty 'Mart' Waterman (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet 51% The Long Night Frank (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two Smart People Fly Feletti (Character) - 1946
96% 91% The Big Sleep Harry Jones (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 17% The Falcon's Alibi Nick (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 44% Dillinger Kirk Otto (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet Why Girls Leave Home Jimmy Lobo (Character) - 1945
80% 73% Up in Arms Info Jones (Character) - 1944
90% 69% Phantom Lady Cliff Milburn (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Baptism of Fire Bill (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Manila Calling Gillman (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wildcat Harold `'Chicopee'` Nevins (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 55% A-Haunting We Will Go Frank Lucas (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blonde Alibi Sam Collins (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Gentleman at Heart Genius (Character) - 1942
86% 68% I Wake Up Screaming Harry Williams (Character) - 1941
99% 91% The Maltese Falcon Wilmer Cook (Character) - 1941
100% 83% Love Crazy Joe (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 85% Hellzapoppin' Harry Selby (Character) - 1941
86% 64% Stranger on the Third Floor Joe Briggs (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet He Married His Wife Dickie Brown (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet 43% Tin Pan Alley Joe Codd (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Three Blind Mice Boy on Bench (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Submarine Patrol Seaman Rutherford Davis Pratt (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 84% They Won't Forget Joe Turner (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Danger, Love at Work Chemist (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 77% Love Is News Egbert Eggleston (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two in a Crowd Skeeter (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Her Unborn Child Stewart Kennedy (Character) - 1930

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Elvira's 40th Anniversary, Very Scary, Very Special, Special Unknown (Character) 2021
No Score Yet 95% Magnum, P.I. Francis 'Ice Pick' Hofstetler (as Elisha Cook) (Guest Star) 1981 1983 1985-1988
No Score Yet 79% ALF Uncle Albert (Guest Star) 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Simon & Simon Bradley Bishop (Guest Star) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fall Guy Unknown (Guest Star) 1986
No Score Yet 70% The A-Team Jim Beam (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chicago Story Unknown (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bionic Woman Inky (Guest Star) 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Blue Knight Unknown (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Starsky and Hutch Unknown (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Odd Couple Heel (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mannix Herbie (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1966 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cimarron Strip Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
72% 78% Batman Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
80% 88% Star Trek Cogley (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Spy Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
100% No Score Yet The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet 100% The Wild, Wild West Unknown (Guest Star) 1965-1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunsmoke Huggins (Guest Star) 1958-1959 1964-1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perry Mason Art Crowley (Guest Star) 1958 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rawhide Unknown (Guest Star) 1959 1961 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wagon Train Cadge Waldo (Guest Star) 1960-1961 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive Sailor (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dakotas Brinkman (Guest Star) 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Surfside 6 Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet 77 Sunset Strip Alfred 'Pony' Quist (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Deputy Unknown (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Laramie Doc (Guest Star) 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thriller Unknown (Character) 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rebel Unknown (Guest Star) 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Startime Unknown (Character) 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Johnny Staccato Unknown (Guest Star) 1959-1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marshal Dillon Unknown (Guest Star) 1958-1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Johnny Ringo Unknown (Guest Star) 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bat Masterson Pete Sheeley (Guest Star) 1958-1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trackdown Clint Serle (Guest Star) 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Guns McCallum (Guest Star) 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1956
No Score Yet 85% Alfred Hitchcock Presents Shorty (Character) 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Superman Unknown (Guest Star) 1954