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