Donald Cook
61 movies · 5 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Sep 26, 1901
- Died
- Oct 1, 1961 (age 60)
- Place of birth
- Portland, Oregon
- Also known as
- Дональд Кук
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.
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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.
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Known for
Donald Cook: movies and TV shows
Acting (66)
- 1996 The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
as Hunchback of Notre Dame
- 1959
- 1953
- 1951
- 1950
- 1950 Our Very Own
as Fred Macaulay
- 1948
- 1948
- 1945 Patrick the Great
as Pat Donahue Sr.
- 1945 Blonde Ransom
as Duke Randall
- 1945 Here Come the Co-Eds
as Dean Larry Benson
- 1944 Bowery to Broadway
as Dennis Dugan
- 1944 Murder in the Blue Room
as Steve
- 1943
- 1937 Circus Girl
as Charles Jerome
- 1937 Two Wise Maids
as Bruce Arnold
- 1936 Beware Of Ladies
as George Martin
- 1936 Can This Be Dixie?
as Longstreet Butler
- 1936 Ellis Island
as Gary Curtis
- 1936 Show Boat
as Steve Baker
- 1936 The Girl from Mandalay
as Kenneth Grainger
- 1936 Ring Around the Moon
as Ross Graham
- 1936 The Leavenworth Case
as Dr. Truman Harwell
- 1935 The Calling of Dan Matthews
as Frank Blair
- 1935 Confidential
as FBI Agent Dave Elliott
- 1935 The Spanish Cape Mystery
as Ellery Queen
- 1935 Here Comes the Band
as Don Trevor
- 1935 Murder in the Fleet
as Lieutenant Commander David Tucker
- 1935 Motive for Revenge
as Barry Webster
- 1935
- 1935 The Casino Murder Case
as Lynn Llewellyn
- 1935 Gigolette
as Gregg Emerson
- 1935 The Night Is Young
as Toni Berngruber
- 1935 Behind the Evidence
as Ward Cameron
- 1934 Fugitive Lady
as Jack Howard
- 1934 Jealousy
as Mark Lambert
- 1934 Most Precious Thing in Life
as Bob Kelsey
- 1934 Viva Villa!
as Don Felipe de Castillo
- 1934 Whirlpool
as Bob
- 1934 The 9th Guest
as Jim Daley
- 1934 Long Lost Father
as Bill Strong
- 1933 The World Changes
as Richard Nordholm
- 1933 Fog
as Wentworth Brown
- 1933 Fury of the Jungle
as 'Lucky' Allen
- 1933 Brief Moment
as Franklin Deane
- 1933 Baby Face
as Ned Stevens
- 1933 The Woman I Stole
as Corew
- 1933 Jennie Gerhardt
as Lester Kane
- 1933 The Kiss Before the Mirror
as Maria's Lover
- 1933 The Circus Queen Murder
as The Great Sebastian
- 1933 Private Jones
as Lt. John Gregg
- 1933 Frisco Jenny
as Dan Reynolds
- 1932 The Penguin Pool Murder
as Philip Seymour
- 1932 The Conquerors
as Warren Lennox
- 1932 The Trial of Vivienne Ware
as John Sutherland
- 1932 The Heart of New York
as Milton
- 1932 The Man Who Played God
as Harold Van Adam
- 1932 Taxi!
as Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)
- 1931 Safe in Hell
as Carl Bergen
- 1931 The Mad Genius
as Fedor Ivanoff
- 1931
- 1931 Side Show
as Joe Palmer
- 1931 Party Husband
as Horace Purcell
- 1931 The Public Enemy
as Mike Powers
- 1931 Unfaithful
as Terry Houston
- 1930 Roseland
as Jack