Elisha Cook Jr.
Elisha Cook Jr. news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Elisha Cook Jr. performances. According to Wikipedia: Character actor Elisha Cook, Jr. made a career playing cowardly villains and neurotics, earning the nickname... [more]
Elisha Cook Jr. news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Elisha Cook Jr. performances. According to Wikipedia: Character actor Elisha Cook, Jr. 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 Wilmer the gunsel in The Maltese Falcon, "pug ugly" Marty Waterman in Born to Kill, Harry Jones in The Big Sleep, Torrey in Shane, and George Peatty, the hen-pecked husband to Marie Windsor, in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing.
Posted by A True Noiraholic RKO Pictures, Inc Present, Original running time 64min. The Film that Gave "Birth" to the Style called Film Noir A young reporter name Michael Ward (John McGuire) is haunted by the the knowledge that he may have sent an innocent man to the electric chair for murder and that means the real maniac is still on the loose! Was the wrong man condemned? Then Michael's next door neighbor is also murdered, and in an ironic twist of fate, is Micheal the real maniac? And...
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Posted by A True Noiraholic RKO Pictures, Inc Present, Original running time 64min. The Film that Gave "Birth" to the Style called Film Noir A young reporter name Michael Ward (John McGuire) is haunted by the the knowledge that he may have sent an innocent man to the electric chair for murder and that means the real maniac is still on the loose! Was the wrong man condemned? Then Michael's next door neighbor is also murdered, and in an ironic twist of fate, is Micheal the real maniac? And...
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