Elisha Cook Jr.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elisha Vanslyck Cook, Jr. (December 26, 1903 – May 18, 1995) was an American character actor who made a career out of playing cowardly villains and weedy neurotics in dozens of films. He was perhaps most noted for his portrayal of the "gunsel" Wilmer, who tries to intimidate Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elisha Cook, Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For: Acting

Born: San Francisco, California, USA, 1903-12-26

Died: 1995-05-18

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1930	Chills and Fever	Member of the Glee Club	0
2	1931	Honor Among Lovers	Office Boy (uncredited)	57
3	1936	Two in a Crowd	Skeeter	0
4	1936	Pigskin Parade	Herbert Van Dyke	60
5	1937	Love Is News	Egbert Eggleston	60
6	1937	The Devil Is Driving	Tony Stevens	50
7	1937	They Won't Forget	Joe Turner	57
8	1937	Wife, Doctor and Nurse	Glen Wylie	60
9	1937	Danger – Love at Work	McBain, the chemist	73
10	1937	Life Begins in College	Oliver ("Ollie") Stearns Jr.	0
11	1938	Three Blind Mice	Boy on Bench (uncredited)	60
12	1938	My Lucky Star	Waldo	53
13	1938	Submarine Patrol	Seaman Rutherford Davis Pratt, aka 'The Professor'	66
14	1938	Newsboys' Home	Danny	60
15	1939	Grand Jury Secrets	Robert Austin / Norman Hazlitt	0
16	1940	He Married His Wife	Dicky Brown	51
17	1940	Stranger on the Third Floor	Joe Briggs	65
18	1940	Public Deb No. 1	Communist	42
19	1940	Tin Pan Alley	Joe Codd	50
20	1941	Love Crazy	Joe (elevator operator)	71
21	1941	Man at Large	Hotel Clerk	60
22	1941	Sergeant York	Piano Player (uncredited)	72
23	1941	The Maltese Falcon	Wilmer Cook	77
24	1941	I Wake Up Screaming	Harry Williams	68
25	1941	Ball of Fire	Waiter	74
26	1941	Hellzapoppin'	Harry Selby	71
27	1942	A Gentleman at Heart	Genius	60
28	1942	Sleepytime Gal	Ernie	0
29	1942	A-Haunting We Will Go	Frank Lucas	60
30	1942	Wildcat	Harold 'Chicopee' Nevins	60
31	1942	Manila Calling	Gillman	70
32	1943	Kill or Be Killed		0
33	1943	Baptism of Fire	Bill (uncredited)	0
34	1944	Phantom Lady	Cliff Milburn	70
35	1944	Up in Arms	Info Jones	59
36	1944	Dark Mountain	Whitey	53
37	1944	Dark Waters	Cleeve	58
38	1945	Dillinger	Kirk Otto	59
39	1945	Why Girls Leave Home	Jimmy Lobo	50
40	1946	Blonde Alibi	Sam Collins	39
41	1946	Cinderella Jones	Oliver S. Patch	33
42	1946	The Falcon's Alibi	Nick	52
43	1946	Joe Palooka, Champ	Eugene	0
44	1946	Two Smart People	Fly Feletti	64
45	1946	The Big Sleep	Harry Jones	76
46	1947	Fall Guy	Joe	48
47	1947	Born to Kill	Marty	67
48	1947	The Long Night	Frank Dunlap	58
49	1947	The Gangster	Oval	48
50	1949	Flaxy Martin	Roper	57
51	1949	The Great Gatsby	Klipspringer	55
52	1951	Behave Yourself!	Albert Jonas	61
53	1952	Don't Bother to Knock	Eddie Forbes	66
54	1953	Shane	Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey	74
55	1953	I, the Jury		57
56	1953	I, the Jury	Bobo	57
57	1953	Thunder Over the Plains	Joseph Standish	54
58	1954	The Outlaw's Daughter	Lewis 'Tulsa' Cook	0
59	1954	Drum Beat	Blaine Crackel	61
60	1955	Timberjack	Punky (as Elisha Cook)	32
61	1955	Trial	Finn	67
62	1955	The Indian Fighter	Briggs (as Elisha Cook)	62
63	1956	The Killing	George Peatty	76
64	1956	Accused of Murder	'Whitey' Pollock	45
65	1957	Voodoo Island	Martin Schuyler	44
66	1957	The Lonely Man	Willie	60
67	1957	Chicago Confidential	Candymouth Duggan	50
68	1957	Plunder Road	Skeets Jonas	69
69	1957	Baby Face Nelson	Homer van Meter	58
70	1959	House on Haunted Hill	Watson Pritchard	68
71	1959	Day of the Outlaw	Larry Teter, Town Barber	68
72	1960	Platinum High School	Harry Nesbit	60
73	1960	College Confidential	Ted Blake	58
74	1960	The Fatal Impulse	Harry Elser	0
75	1961	One-Eyed Jacks	Carvey	67
76	1963	Papa's Delicate Condition	Mr. Keith	54
77	1963	Black Zoo	Joe	56
78	1963	The Haunted Palace	Gideon Smith / Micah Smith	66
79	1963	Johnny Cool	Underworld Leader	53
80	1964	The Glass Cage	Ellen's father	53
81	1964	The Big Parade of Comedy	Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited)	63
82	1964	Blood on the Arrow	Tex	37
83	1967	The Spy in the Green Hat	Arnold	65
84	1967	Welcome to Hard Times	Hanson	50
85	1968	The Movie Orgy	Self (archive footage)	62
86	1968	Rosemary's Baby	Mr. Nicklas	78
87	1969	The Great Bank Robbery	Jeb	63
88	1969	Cry for Poor Wally		0
89	1970	The Movie Murderer	Willie Peanuts	65
90	1970	El Condor	Old Convict	56
91	1970	Night Slaves		62
92	1970	Night Chase	Proprietor	55
93	1972	Scarecrow	Micah	80
94	1972	The Night Stalker	Mickey Crawford	68
95	1972	The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid	Bunker (as Elisha Cook)	57
96	1972	Blacula	Sam	55
97	1973	Messiah of Evil	Charlie	62
98	1973	Electra Glide in Blue	Willie	69
99	1973	Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid	Cody	72
100	1973	Emperor of the North	Gray Cat	67
101	1973	The Outfit	Carl	68
102	1974	The Phantom of Hollywood	Studio Engineer (uncredited)	51
103	1975	Senior Power	Mr. Boyle	0
104	1975	Winterhawk	Finley	66
105	1975	The Black Bird	Wilmer Cook	46
106	1976	St. Ives	Eddie	57
107	1977	Dead of Night	Karel	63
108	1977	Mad Bull	Sweeper	0
109	1979	The Champ	Georgie	70
110	1979	1941	The Patron (Dexter)	58
111	1980	Tom Horn	Stable Hand	64
112	1980	Carny	On-Your-Mark	64
113	1981	Harry's War	Sgt. Billy	52
114	1981	Leave 'Em Laughing	Jetter	80
115	1982	National Lampoon's Movie Madness	Mousy ("Municipalians")	32
116	1982	Hammett	Eli the Taxi Driver	62
117	1982	Terror at Alcatraz	Hotel Desk Clerk	0
118	1983	This Girl For Hire	Eddie	42
119	1984	Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse	Mr. Maps	50
120	1984	The Pigs vs. The Freaks	Novatney	0
121	1986	Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend	Self (from Don't Bother to Knock [1952]) (archive footage)	75
122	1987	The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains	Pappy Glue	66
123	2022	They Came from the Attic	Watson Pritchard (voice) (Archival)	90

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok		45
2	1952	Adventures of Superman		67
3	1953	General Electric Theater	Jed	60
4	1953	General Electric Theater	Willy Zucks	60
5	1953	General Electric Theater	Lloyd Harwell	60
6	1954	Climax!	Pop	30
7	1955	The Millionaire	Ed Nevins	50
8	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp		67
9	1955	Gunsmoke	Huggins	66
10	1955	Gunsmoke	Cyrus Tucker	66
11	1955	Gunsmoke	George	66
12	1955	Gunsmoke	Jocko Beal	66
13	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Shorty	78
14	1957	The O. Henry Playhouse	Fred	0
15	1957	Panic!		0
16	1957	Perry Mason	Art Crowley	77
17	1957	Perry Mason	Reelin' Pete	77
18	1957	Trackdown		64
19	1958	Peter Gunn		65
20	1958	Bat Masterson	Pete Sheeley	63
21	1958	Bat Masterson	Thorn Loomis	63
22	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
23	1959	Rawhide	Bain	72
24	1959	Rawhide	Joel Turner	72
25	1959	Rawhide	Jim Gribble	72
26	1959	Tightrope		55
27	1959	Johnny Staccato		56
28	1959	Bonanza	John Walker	75
29	1959	The Deputy	Miller	62
30	1959	Johnny Ringo	Maxie Dolan	57
31	1959	The Third Man		67
32	1959	The Rebel	Jeremy Hake	53
33	1960	Thriller	Harry Elser	64
34	1960	Outlaws		62
35	1960	The Islanders	Tomas	80
36	1960	Surfside 6		50
37	1963	The Dakotas		57
38	1963	The Fugitive	Sailor	72
39	1963	Burke's Law	Wyatt	60
40	1965	The Wild Wild West		76
41	1966	Batman	Professor Isaacson	73
42	1966	The Monroes		57
43	1966	Star Trek	Samuel Cogley	80
44	1967	Ironside		69
45	1967	Cimarron Strip		50
46	1967	Mannix		67
47	1970	McCloud		71
48	1970	The Odd Couple	Heel	78
49	1973	Police Story		71
50	1975	Baretta		63
51	1975	S.W.A.T.		70
52	1975	The Blue Knight		20
53	1975	Switch	Henley	67
54	1975	Starsky & Hutch		72
55	1976	The Bionic Woman		70
56	1976	Quincy, M.E.	Mr. Charles Trout Sr.	75
57	1979	Salem's Lot	Gordon 'Weasel' Phillips	68
58	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Harold W. Farber	73
59	1981	Simon & Simon		67
60	1983	The A-Team	Jim Beam	75
61	1984	Night Court	Wilbur Posten	73
62	1985	The Twilight Zone		77
63	1986	ALF	Uncle Albert	77
64	1986	ALF	Uncle Albert (archive footage)	77