
Elisha Cook Jr.
Acting • Born 1903-12-26 – Died 1995-05-18
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
193 credits
The Killing
Movie • 1956
George Peatty

The Big Sleep
Movie • 1946
Harry Jones

The Maltese Falcon
Movie • 1941
Wilmer Cook

I, the Jury
Movie • 1953

Rosemary's Baby
Movie • 1968
Mr. Nicklas

Shane
Movie • 1953
Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey

The Movie Orgy
Movie • 1968
Self (archive footage)

The Haunted Palace
Movie • 1963
Gideon Smith / Micah Smith

Love Crazy
Movie • 1941
Joe (elevator operator)

1941
Movie • 1979
The Patron (Dexter)

I Wake Up Screaming
Movie • 1941
Harry Williams

Blacula
Movie • 1972
Sam

Don't Bother to Knock
Movie • 1952
Eddie Forbes

Black Zoo
Movie • 1963
Joe

Messiah of Evil
Movie • 1975
Charlie

Carny
Movie • 1980
On-Your-Mark

Electra Glide in Blue
Movie • 1973
Willie

The Gangster
Movie • 1947
Oval

The Outfit
Movie • 1973
Carl

Born to Kill
Movie • 1947
Marty

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Movie • 1972
Bunker (as Elisha Cook)

Dillinger
Movie • 1945
Kirk Otto

Hammett
Movie • 1982
Eli the Taxi Driver

Baby Face Nelson
Movie • 1957
Homer van Meter

Plunder Road
Movie • 1957
Skeets Jonas

Dark Waters
Movie • 1944
Cleeve

Stranger on the Third Floor
Movie • 1940
Joe Briggs

Ball of Fire
Movie • 1941
Waiter

The Lonely Man
Movie • 1957
Willie

Accused of Murder
Movie • 1956
'Whitey' Pollock

Day of the Outlaw
Movie • 1959
Larry Teter, Town Barber

The Night Stalker
Movie • 1972
Mickey Crawford

House on Haunted Hill
Movie • 1959
Watson Pritchard

Phantom Lady
Movie • 1944
Cliff Milburn

A-Haunting We Will Go
Movie • 1942
Frank Lucas

Blonde Alibi
Movie • 1946
Sam Collins

St. Ives
Movie • 1976
Eddie

Fall Guy
Movie • 1947
Joe

The Long Night
Movie • 1947
Frank Dunlap

Voodoo Island
Movie • 1957
Martin Schuyler

Chicago Confidential
Movie • 1957
Candymouth Duggan

The Falcon's Alibi
Movie • 1946
Nick

Flaxy Martin
Movie • 1949
Roper

One-Eyed Jacks
Movie • 1961
Carvey

They Won't Forget
Movie • 1937
Joe Turner

The Great Gatsby
Movie • 1949
Klipspringer

Johnny Cool
Movie • 1963
Underworld Leader

College Confidential
Movie • 1960
Ted Blake

Pigskin Parade
Movie • 1936
Herbert Van Dyke

The Black Bird
Movie • 1975
Wilmer Cook

Dead of Night
Movie • 1977
Karel

The Indian Fighter
Movie • 1955
Briggs

El Condor
Movie • 1970
Old Convict

Two Smart People
Movie • 1946
Fly Feletti

Dark Mountain
Movie • 1944
Whitey

Mad Bull
Movie • 1977
Sweeper

Drum Beat
Movie • 1954
Blaine Crackel

Winterhawk
Movie • 1975
Finley

Danger – Love at Work
Movie • 1937
McBain, the chemist

Platinum High School
Movie • 1960
Harry Nesbit

Behave Yourself!
Movie • 1951
Albert Jonas

He Married His Wife
Movie • 1940
Dicky Brown

They Came from the Attic
Movie • 2022
Watson Pritchard (voice) (Archival)

Why Girls Leave Home
Movie • 1945
Jimmy Lobo

The Glass Cage
Movie • 1964
Ellen's father

Leave 'Em Laughing
Movie • 1981
Jetter

Submarine Patrol
Movie • 1938
Seaman Rutherford Davis Pratt, aka 'The Professor'

Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse
Movie • 1984
Mr. Maps

Thunder Over the Plains
Movie • 1953
Joseph Standish

Newsboys' Home
Movie • 1938
Danny

Night Slaves
Movie • 1970

Wildcat
Movie • 1942
Harold 'Chicopee' Nevins

My Lucky Star
Movie • 1938
Waldo

Timberjack
Movie • 1955
Punky (as Elisha Cook)

The Devil Is Driving
Movie • 1937
Tony Stevens

I, the Jury
Movie • 1953
Bobo

Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Movie • 1937
Glen Wylie

Two in a Crowd
Movie • 1936
Skeeter

Public Deb No. 1
Movie • 1940
Communist

Papa's Delicate Condition
Movie • 1963
Mr. Keith

Terror at Alcatraz
Movie • 1982
Hotel Desk Clerk

Trial
Movie • 1955
Finn

The Movie Murderer
Movie • 1970
Willie Peanuts

Up in Arms
Movie • 1944
Info Jones

Cinderella Jones
Movie • 1946
Oliver S. Patch

Grand Jury Secrets
Movie • 1939
Robert Austin / Norman Hazlitt

The Phantom of Hollywood
Movie • 1974
Studio Engineer (uncredited)

The Outlaw's Daughter
Movie • 1954
Lewis 'Tulsa' Cook

The Champ
Movie • 1979
Georgie

Scarecrow
Movie • 1972
Micah

Night Chase
Movie • 1970
Proprietor

Life Begins in College
Movie • 1937
Oliver ("Ollie") Stearns Jr.

A Gentleman at Heart
Movie • 1942
Genius

Tin Pan Alley
Movie • 1940
Joe Codd

Man at Large
Movie • 1941
Hotel Clerk

Chills and Fever
Movie • 1930
Member of the Glee Club

Manila Calling
Movie • 1942
Gillman

Love Is News
Movie • 1937
Egbert Eggleston

Blood on the Arrow
Movie • 1964
Tex

Sergeant York
Movie • 1941
Piano Player (uncredited)

The Fatal Impulse
Movie • 1960
Harry Elser

Welcome to Hard Times
Movie • 1967
Hanson

Tom Horn
Movie • 1980
Stable Hand

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
Movie • 1987
Pappy Glue

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Movie • 1973
Cody

Three Blind Mice
Movie • 1938
Boy on Bench (uncredited)

The Pigs vs. The Freaks
Movie • 1984
Novatney

Hellzapoppin'
Movie • 1941
Harry Selby

Cry for Poor Wally
Movie • 1969

Sleepytime Gal
Movie • 1942
Ernie

Kill or Be Killed
Movie • 1943

Honor Among Lovers
Movie • 1931
Office Boy (uncredited)

This Girl for Hire
Movie • 1983
Eddie

Joe Palooka, Champ
Movie • 1946
Eugene

The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie • 1964
Joe in 'Love Crazy' (archive footage) (uncredited)

Emperor of the North
Movie • 1973
Gray Cat

Senior Power
Movie • 1975
Mr. Boyle

Harry's War
Movie • 1981
Sgt. Billy

National Lampoon's Movie Madness
Movie • 1982
Mousy ("Municipalians")

The Great Bank Robbery
Movie • 1969
Jeb

Baptism of Fire
Movie • 1943
Bill (uncredited)

The Spy in the Green Hat
Movie • 1967
Arnold

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Movie • 1984
Mr. Bibbs

Her Unborn Child
Movie • 1930
Stewart Kennedy

Superman's Peril
Movie • 1954
Homer Garrity

Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Harold W. Farber

Star Trek
TV • 1966
Samuel Cogley

77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958

Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Wyatt

Trackdown
TV • 1957

Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975

The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Heel

The Bionic Woman
TV • 1976

Batman
TV • 1966
Professor Isaacson

Simon & Simon
TV • 1981

The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
(segment "Welcome to Winfield")

Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Mr. Charles Trout Sr.

Baretta
TV • 1975

Mannix
TV • 1967

Surfside 6
TV • 1960

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Huggins

Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Art Crowley

General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Jed

The Islanders
TV • 1960
Tomas

Johnny Staccato
TV • 1959

ALF
TV • 1986
Uncle Albert

Ironside
TV • 1967

ALF
TV • 1986
Uncle Albert (archive footage)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Shorty

The Monroes
TV • 1966

Outlaws
TV • 1960

The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965

Rawhide
TV • 1959
Bain

Cimarron Strip
TV • 1967

The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Sailor

Police Story
TV • 1973

Switch
TV • 1975
Henley

The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Ed Nevins

S.W.A.T.
TV • 1975

Thriller
TV • 1960
Harry Elser

Peter Gunn
TV • 1958

McCloud
TV • 1970

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955

Climax!
TV • 1954
Pop

Adventures of Superman
TV • 1952

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV • 1951

The Rebel
TV • 1959
Jeremy Hake

The Dakotas
TV • 1963

Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Pete Sheeley

Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Maxie Dolan

Tightrope
TV • 1959

Panic!
TV • 1957

The Third Man
TV • 1959

The Blue Knight
TV • 1975

The O. Henry Playhouse
TV • 1957
Fred

Rawhide
TV • 1959
Joel Turner

Rawhide
TV • 1959
Jim Gribble

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Cyrus Tucker

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
George

Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jocko Beal

Night Court
TV • 1984
Wilbur Posten

General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Willy Zucks

General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Lloyd Harwell

Salem's Lot
TV • 1979
Gordon 'Weasel' Phillips

Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Thorn Loomis

Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Reelin' Pete

Bonanza
TV • 1959
John Walker

The A-Team
TV • 1983
Jim Beam

The Deputy
TV • 1959
Miller

Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Francis 'Ice Pick' Hofstetler

Magnum, P.I.
TV • 1980
Wilmer

A Man Called Shenandoah
TV • 1965
Judd

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Arnold