Elisha Cook Jr.

Acting · Born 1903-12-26 in San Francisco, California, USA

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

Filmography

• The Killing as George Peatty
• The Big Sleep as Harry Jones
• The Maltese Falcon as Wilmer Cook
• I, the Jury
• Rosemary's Baby as Mr. Nicklas
• Shane as Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey
• The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
• The Haunted Palace as Gideon Smith / Micah Smith
• Love Crazy as Joe (elevator operator)
• 1941 as The Patron (Dexter)