Donald Cook
Age: 60 | From: Portland, Oregon
Person Details
Birthday: 1901-09-26 12:48:22
Death: 1961-10-01 12:48:22
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: N/A
Place of birth: Portland, Oregon
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 41
TV Involvements: 3
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Most Famous Work
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) Tad Bryson
The Public Enemy
(1931) Mike Powers
Baby Face
(1933) Ned Stevens
Viva Villa!
(1934) Don Felipe de Castillo
Taxi!
(1931) Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)
The Mad Genius
(1931) Fedor Ivanoff
Safe in Hell
(1931) Carl Bergen
The Casino Murder Case
(1935) LynnActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Hunchback of Notre Dame | |
| 1959 | Tom Blake | |
| 1953 | N/A | |
| 1951 | Cassidy | |
| 1950 | Roger | |
| Bruce Wallace | ||
| Tad Bryson | ||
| Fred Macaulay | ||
| 1948 | N/A | |
| 1945 | Pat Donahue Sr. | |
| Duke Randall | ||
| Dean Larry Benson | ||
| 1944 | Dennis Dugan | |
| Steve | ||
| 1943 | N/A | |
| 1937 | Charles Jerome | |
| Bruce Arnold | ||
| 1936 | George Martin | |
| Longstreet Butler | ||
| Gary Curtis | ||
| Steve Baker | ||
| Kenneth Grainger | ||
| Ross Graham | ||
| Dr. Truman Harwell | ||
| 1935 | N/A | |
| Frank Blair | ||
| FBI Agent Dave Elliott | ||
| Ellery Queen | ||
| Don Trevor | ||
| Lieutenant Commander David Tucker | ||
| Barry Webster | ||
| Lynn | ||
| Gregg Emerson | ||
| Toni Berngruber | ||
| Ward Cameron | ||
| 1934 | Jack Howard | |
| Mark Lambert | ||
| Bob Kelsey | ||
| Don Felipe de Castillo | ||
| Bob Andrews | ||
| Jim Daley | ||
| Bill Strong | ||
| 1933 | Richard Nordholm | |
| Wentworth Brown | ||
| 'Lucky' Allen | ||
| Franklin Deane | ||
| Ned Stevens | ||
| Corew | ||
| Lester Kane | ||
| Maria's Lover | ||
| The Great Sebastian | ||
| Lt. John Gregg | ||
| 1932 | Dan Reynolds | |
| Philip Seymour | ||
| Warren Lennox | ||
| John Sutherland | ||
| Milton | ||
| Harold Van Adam | ||
| 1931 | Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited) | |
| Carl Bergen | ||
| Fedor Ivanoff | ||
| Joe Palmer | ||
| Horace Purcell | ||
| Mike Powers | ||
| N/A | ||
| Terry Houston | ||
| 1930 | Jack | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
