
Elisha Cook Jr.
Department: Acting
Biography
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

The Killing
1956

The Big Sleep
1946

The Maltese Falcon
1941

I, the Jury
1953

Rosemary's Baby
1968

Shane
1953

The Movie Orgy
1968

The Haunted Palace
1963

Love Crazy
1941

1941
1979

I Wake Up Screaming
1941

Blacula
1972

Don't Bother to Knock
1952

Black Zoo
1963

Messiah of Evil
1975

Carny
1980

Electra Glide in Blue
1973

The Gangster
1947

The Outfit
1973

Born to Kill
1947

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1972

Dillinger
1945

Hammett
1982

Baby Face Nelson
1957

Plunder Road
1957

Dark Waters
1944

Stranger on the Third Floor
1940

Ball of Fire
1941

The Lonely Man
1957

Accused of Murder
1956

Day of the Outlaw
1959

The Night Stalker
1972

House on Haunted Hill
1959

Phantom Lady
1944

A-Haunting We Will Go
1942

Blonde Alibi
1946

St. Ives
1976

Fall Guy
1947

The Long Night
1947

Voodoo Island
1957

Chicago Confidential
1957

The Falcon's Alibi
1946

Flaxy Martin
1949

One-Eyed Jacks
1961

They Won't Forget
1937

The Great Gatsby
1949

Johnny Cool
1963

College Confidential
1960

Pigskin Parade
1936

The Black Bird
1975

Dead of Night
1977

The Indian Fighter
1955

El Condor
1970

Two Smart People
1946

Dark Mountain
1944

Mad Bull
1977

Drum Beat
1954

Winterhawk
1975

Danger – Love at Work
1937

Platinum High School
1960

Behave Yourself!
1951

He Married His Wife
1940

They Came from the Attic
2022

Why Girls Leave Home
1945

The Glass Cage
1964

Leave 'Em Laughing
1981

Submarine Patrol
1938

Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse
1984

Thunder Over the Plains
1953

Newsboys' Home
1938

Night Slaves
1970

Wildcat
1942

My Lucky Star
1938

Timberjack
1955

The Devil Is Driving
1937

I, the Jury
1953

Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937

Two in a Crowd
1936

Public Deb No. 1
1940

Papa's Delicate Condition
1963

Terror at Alcatraz
1982

Trial
1955

The Movie Murderer
1970

Up in Arms
1944

Cinderella Jones
1946

Grand Jury Secrets
1939

The Phantom of Hollywood
1974

The Outlaw's Daughter
1954

The Champ
1979

Scarecrow
1972

Night Chase
1970

Life Begins in College
1937

A Gentleman at Heart
1942

Tin Pan Alley
1940

Man at Large
1941

Chills and Fever
1930

Manila Calling
1942

Love Is News
1937

Blood on the Arrow
1964

Sergeant York
1941

The Fatal Impulse
1960

Welcome to Hard Times
1967

Tom Horn
1980

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
1987

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973

Three Blind Mice
1938

The Pigs vs. The Freaks
1984

Hellzapoppin'
1941

Cry for Poor Wally
1969

Sleepytime Gal
1942

Kill or Be Killed
1943

Honor Among Lovers
1931

This Girl for Hire
1983

Joe Palooka, Champ
1946

The Big Parade of Comedy
1964

Emperor of the North
1973

Senior Power
1975

Harry's War
1981

National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1982

The Great Bank Robbery
1969

Baptism of Fire
1943

The Spy in the Green Hat
1967

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984

Her Unborn Child
1930

Superman's Peril
1954

Magnum, P.I.
1980

Star Trek
1966

77 Sunset Strip
1958

Burke's Law
1963

Trackdown
1957

Starsky & Hutch
1975

The Odd Couple
1970

The Bionic Woman
1976

Batman
1966

Simon & Simon
1981

The Twilight Zone
1985

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Baretta
1975

Mannix
1967

Surfside 6
1960

Gunsmoke
1955

Perry Mason
1957

General Electric Theater
1953

The Islanders
1960

Johnny Staccato
1959

ALF
1986

Ironside
1967

ALF
1986

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

The Monroes
1966

Outlaws
1960

The Wild Wild West
1965

Rawhide
1959

Cimarron Strip
1967

The Fugitive
1963

Police Story
1973

Switch
1975

The Millionaire
1955

S.W.A.T.
1975

Thriller
1960

Peter Gunn
1958

McCloud
1970

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955

Climax!
1954

Adventures of Superman
1952

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951

The Rebel
1959

The Dakotas
1963

Bat Masterson
1958

Johnny Ringo
1959

Tightrope
1959

Panic!
1957

The Third Man
1959

The Blue Knight
1975

The O. Henry Playhouse
1957

Rawhide
1959

Rawhide
1959

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Gunsmoke
1955

Night Court
1984

General Electric Theater
1953

General Electric Theater
1953

Salem's Lot
1979

Bat Masterson
1958

Perry Mason
1957

Bonanza
1959

The A-Team
1983

The Deputy
1959

Magnum, P.I.
1980

Magnum, P.I.
1980

A Man Called Shenandoah
1965

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964