Donald Cook
Born: 1901-09-26 in Portland, Oregon
Died: 1961-10-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
1996
- The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas as Hunchback of Notre Dame
1959
- Too Young to Go Steady as Tom Blake
1953
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Cassidy
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Roger
- Our Very Own as Fred Macaulay
1945
- Patrick the Great as Pat Donahue Sr.
- Here Come the Co-Eds as Dean Larry Benson
- Blonde Ransom as Duke Randall
1944
- Murder in the Blue Room as Steve
- Bowery to Broadway as Dennis Dugan
1943
1937
- Circus Girl as Charles Jerome
- Two Wise Maids as Bruce Arnold
1936
- Show Boat as Steve Baker
- Can This Be Dixie? as Longstreet Butler
- The Leavenworth Case as Dr. Truman Harwell
- Beware Of Ladies as George Martin
- Ring Around the Moon as Ross Graham
- Ellis Island as Gary Curtis
- The Girl from Mandalay as Kenneth Grainger
1935
- Confidential as FBI Agent Dave Elliott
- Murder in the Fleet as Lieutenant Commander David Tucker
- Motive for Revenge as Barry Webster
- The Casino Murder Case as Lynn Llewellyn
- The Night Is Young as Toni Berngruber
- The Calling of Dan Matthews as Frank Blair
- The Spanish Cape Mystery as Ellery Queen
- Gigolette as Gregg Emerson
- Here Comes the Band as Don Trevor
- Ladies Love Danger
- Behind the Evidence as Ward Cameron
1934
- Viva Villa! as Don Felipe de Castillo
- Fugitive Lady as Jack Howard
- Long Lost Father as Bill Strong
- The 9th Guest as Jim Daley
- Most Precious Thing in Life as Bob Kelsey
- Whirlpool as Bob
- Jealousy as Mark Lambert
1933
- Brief Moment as Franklin Deane
- Jennie Gerhardt as Lester Kane
- Fog as Wentworth Brown
- Frisco Jenny as Dan Reynolds
- Baby Face as Ned Stevens
- Private Jones as Lt. John Gregg
- The Kiss Before the Mirror as Maria's Lover
- The Woman I Stole as Corew
- The World Changes as Richard Nordholm
- The Circus Queen Murder as The Great Sebastian
- Fury of the Jungle as 'Lucky' Allen
1932
- Taxi! as Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)
- The Conquerors as Warren Lennox
- The Heart of New York as Milton
- The Trial of Vivienne Ware as John Sutherland
- The Man Who Played God as Harold Van Adam
- The Penguin Pool Murder as Philip Seymour
1931
- Unfaithful as Terry Houston
- The Public Enemy as Mike Powers
- Side Show as Joe Palmer
- The Mad Genius as Fedor Ivanoff
- Safe in Hell as Carl Bergen
- Party Husband as Horace Purcell
- How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
1930
- Roseland as Jack