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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 26, 1901
Died
October 1, 1961
Place of Birth
Portland, Oregon
Also Known As
- Дональд Кук
Donald Cook
0.1 Popularity
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Donald Cook, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
5.3
Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
1996
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0.0
Tom Blake
Too Young to Go Steady
1959
🎬
0.0
ABC Album
1953
7.2
Cassidy
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
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6.3
Roger
Lux Video Theatre
1950
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6.3
Bruce Wallace
Lux Video Theatre
1950
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6.3
Tad Bryson
Lux Video Theatre
1950
5.4
Fred Macaulay
Our Very Own
1950
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
4.0
Pat Donahue Sr.
Patrick the Great
1945
Credits
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
as Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996
5.3
🎬
Too Young to Go Steady
as Tom Blake
1959
0.0
🎬
ABC Album
1953
0.0
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Cassidy
1951
7.2
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Roger
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Bruce Wallace
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Tad Bryson
1950
6.3
Our Very Own
as Fred Macaulay
1950
5.4
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
Patrick the Great
as Pat Donahue Sr.
1945
4.0
🎬
Blonde Ransom
as Duke Randall
1945
0.0
Here Come the Co-Eds
as Dean Larry Benson
1945
5.7
Bowery to Broadway
as Dennis Dugan
1944
0.0
Murder in the Blue Room
as Steve
1944
5.0
🎬
Freedom Comes High
1943
0.0
Circus Girl
as Charles Jerome
1937
4.0
Two Wise Maids
as Bruce Arnold
1937
0.0
🎬
Beware Of Ladies
as George Martin
1936
5.0
Can This Be Dixie?
as Longstreet Butler
1936
0.0
🎬
Ellis Island
as Gary Curtis
1936
5.0
Show Boat
as Steve Baker
1936
6.8
The Girl from Mandalay
as Kenneth Grainger
1936
3.0
Ring Around the Moon
as Ross Graham
1936
4.0
The Leavenworth Case
as Dr. Truman Harwell
1936
5.0
The Calling of Dan Matthews
as Frank Blair
1935
3.0
Confidential
as FBI Agent Dave Elliott
1935
5.8
The Spanish Cape Mystery
as Ellery Queen
1935
5.4
Here Comes the Band
as Don Trevor
1935
5.0
Murder in the Fleet
as Lieutenant Commander David Tucker
1935
5.0
Motive for Revenge
as Barry Webster
1935
5.0
Ladies Love Danger
1935
0.0
The Casino Murder Case
as Lynn Llewellyn
1935
6.5
Gigolette
as Gregg Emerson
1935
4.3
The Night Is Young
as Toni Berngruber
1935
5.7
🎬
Behind the Evidence
as Ward Cameron
1935
2.0
Fugitive Lady
as Jack Howard
1934
6.0
Jealousy
as Mark Lambert
1934
4.7
Most Precious Thing in Life
as Bob Kelsey
1934
5.2
Viva Villa!
as Don Felipe de Castillo
1934
6.3
Whirlpool
as Bob
1934
5.9
The 9th Guest
as Jim Daley
1934
5.9
Long Lost Father
as Bill Strong
1934
5.7
The World Changes
as Richard Nordholm
1933
4.3
Fog
as Wentworth Brown
1933
5.0
Fury of the Jungle
as 'Lucky' Allen
1933
0.0
Brief Moment
as Franklin Deane
1933
2.2
Baby Face
as Ned Stevens
1933
7.2
The Woman I Stole
as Corew
1933
2.7
Jennie Gerhardt
as Lester Kane
1933
4.0
The Kiss Before the Mirror
as Maria's Lover
1933
5.4
The Circus Queen Murder
as The Great Sebastian
1933
4.7
Private Jones
as Lt. John Gregg
1933
0.0
Frisco Jenny
as Dan Reynolds
1933
6.3
The Penguin Pool Murder
as Philip Seymour
1932
5.5
The Conquerors
as Warren Lennox
1932
4.8
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
as John Sutherland
1932
0.0
The Heart of New York
as Milton
1932
6.7
The Man Who Played God
as Harold Van Adam
1932
7.2
Taxi!
as Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)
1932
6.6
Safe in Hell
as Carl Bergen
1931
6.6
The Mad Genius
as Fedor Ivanoff
1931
6.3
Side Show
as Joe Palmer
1931
5.0
Party Husband
as Horace Purcell
1931
5.0
The Public Enemy
as Mike Powers
1931
7.2
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
1931
6.3
Unfaithful
as Terry Houston
1931
5.0
Roseland
as Jack
1930
3.8