Elisha Cook, JrAKA:
Elisha Cook
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
12/26/1903 Birthplace:
San Francisco, California Death Date:
05/18/1995 Celeb News
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biography
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.
Credits
milestones
Year
Milestone
Appeared in vaudeville, joining Frank Balcon in "Lightnin'" from the age 14
1921
Stage actor
1926
Made Broadway debut, "Henry- Behave"
1929
Feature acting debut, "Her Unborn Child"
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