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Elisha Cook Jr.

Elisha Cook Jr.

Birthday: 1903-12-26 | Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1982
Hammett

as    Eli the Taxi Driver

1981
Leave 'Em Laughing

as    Jetter

1980
Carny

as    On-Your-Mark

1980
Tom Horn

as    Stable Hand

1979
The Champ

as    Georgie

1979
Salem's Lot

as    Gordon 'Weasel' Phillips

1977
Mad Bull

as    Sweeper

1975
Winterhawk

as    Finley

1974
Messiah of Evil

as    Charlie

1973
Emperor of the North

as    Gray Cat

1973
Electra Glide in Blue

as    Willie

1972
The Night Stalker

as    Mickey Crawford

1972
Blacula

as    Sam

1970
El Condor

as    Old Convict

1970
Night Chase

as    Proprietor

1970
The Movie Murderer

as    Willie Peanuts

1968
Rosemary's Baby

as    Mr. Nicklas

1964
The Glass Cage

as    Ellen's father

1963
The Haunted Palace

as    Gideon Smith / Micah Smith

1963
Black Zoo

as    Joe

1961
One-Eyed Jacks

as    Carvey

1959
House on Haunted Hill

as    Watson Pritchard

1957
Chicago Confidential

as    Candymouth Duggan

1957
Baby Face Nelson

as    Homer van Meter

1957
Voodoo Island

as    Martin Schuyler

1957
Plunder Road

as    Skeets Jonas

1957
The Lonely Man

as    Willie

1956
The Killing

as    George Peatty