Donald Cook
Acting
Born September 26, 1901, Portland, Oregon
Donald Cook (September 26, 1901 – October 1, 1961) was an American stage and film actor. Born in Portland, Oregon, he originally studied farming but later started business with a lumber company. He joined the Kansas Community Players and through this received an offer of stage work. He started screen work in "shorts" before going on to films. Cook was known for his portrayal of Mike Powers in the film The Public Enemy. He also was one of the first film actors to portray Ellery Queen, in The Spanish Cape Mystery. He played opposite Helen Morgan in the 1936 film adaptation of Show Boat was one of the suspects in the Philo Vance mystery The Casino Murder Case, starred as an heroic immigration inspector in Ellis Island. Other film credits include The Man Who Played God, Our Very Own and The Penguin Pool Murder (1932). Cook made his Broadway debut in 1926 as Donn Cook, and his New York theatrical career continued until 1959. His credits included a 1948 revival of Private Lives. Cook was married to Princess Gioia Tasca di Cuto from 1937 until his death from a heart attack in New Haven. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Cook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
- 1996The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas — Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Too Young to Go Steady — Tom Blake
- ABC Album
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Cassidy
- Lux Video Theatre — Roger, Bruce Wallace, Tad Bryson
- 1950Our Very Own — Fred Macaulay
- 1948Oysters and Muscles
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- 1945Blonde Ransom — Duke Randall
- 1945Here Come the Co-Eds — Dean Larry Benson
- 1945Patrick the Great — Pat Donahue Sr.
- 1944Bowery to Broadway — Dennis Dugan
- 1944Murder in the Blue Room — Steve
- 1943Freedom Comes High
- 1937Circus Girl — Charles Jerome
- 1937Two Wise Maids — Bruce Arnold
- 1936Beware Of Ladies — George Martin
- 1936Can This Be Dixie? — Longstreet Butler
- 1936Ellis Island — Gary Curtis
- 1936Ring Around the Moon — Ross Graham
- 1936Show Boat — Steve Baker
- 1936The Girl from Mandalay — Kenneth Grainger
- 1936The Leavenworth Case — Dr. Truman Harwell
- 1935Behind the Evidence — Ward Cameron
- 1935Confidential — FBI Agent Dave Elliott
- 1935Gigolette — Gregg Emerson
- 1935Here Comes the Band — Don Trevor
- 1935Ladies Love Danger
- 1935Motive for Revenge — Barry Webster
- 1935Murder in the Fleet — Lieutenant Commander David Tucker
- 1935The Calling of Dan Matthews — Frank Blair
- 1935The Casino Murder Case — Lynn Llewellyn
- 1935The Night Is Young — Toni Berngruber
- 1935The Spanish Cape Mystery — Ellery Queen
- 1934Fugitive Lady — Jack Howard
- 1934Jealousy — Mark Lambert
- 1934Long Lost Father — Bill Strong
- 1934Most Precious Thing in Life — Bob Kelsey
- 1934The 9th Guest — Jim Daley
- 1934Viva Villa! — Don Felipe de Castillo
- 1934Whirlpool — Bob
- 1933Baby Face — Ned Stevens
- 1933Brief Moment — Franklin Deane
- 1933Fog — Wentworth Brown
- 1933Frisco Jenny — Dan Reynolds
- 1933Fury of the Jungle — 'Lucky' Allen
- 1933Jennie Gerhardt — Lester Kane
- 1933Private Jones — Lt. John Gregg
- 1933The Circus Queen Murder — The Great Sebastian
- 1933The Kiss Before the Mirror — Maria's Lover
- 1933The Woman I Stole — Corew
- 1933The World Changes — Richard Nordholm
- 1932Taxi! — Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)
- 1932The Conquerors — Warren Lennox
- 1932The Heart of New York — Milton
- 1932The Man Who Played God — Harold Van Adam
- 1932The Penguin Pool Murder — Philip Seymour
- 1932The Trial of Vivienne Ware — John Sutherland
- 1931How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
- 1931Party Husband — Horace Purcell
- 1931Safe in Hell — Carl Bergen
- 1931Side Show — Joe Palmer
- 1931The Mad Genius — Fedor Ivanoff
- 1931The Public Enemy — Mike Powers
- 1931Unfaithful — Terry Houston
- 1930Roseland — Jack