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