Elisha Cook Jr.
Birthday: 1903-12-26
Place of Birth: 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
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The Killing
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a bet...
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The Big Sleep
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involvi...
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The Maltese Falcon
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful li...
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I, the Jury
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to...
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Rosemary's Baby
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...
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Shane
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The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop...
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The Haunted Palace
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Love Crazy
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1941
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I Wake Up Screaming
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Blacula
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Don't Bother to Knock
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Black Zoo
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Messiah of Evil
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Carny
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Electra Glide in Blue
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The Gangster
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sulliva...
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The Outfit
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time cr...
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Born to Kill
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getti...
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, ...
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Dillinger
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934....
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Hammett
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with...
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Baby Face Nelson
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful m...
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Dark Waters
Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover ...
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Stranger on the Third Floor
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Ball of Fire
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The Lonely Man
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Accused of Murder
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Day of the Outlaw
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The Night Stalker
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the cu...
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House on Haunted Hill
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if...
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Phantom Lady
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove he...
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins...
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Blonde Alibi
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspic...
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St. Ives
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers....
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Fall Guy
A drugged man covered in blood is picked up by police. Before the cops can get answers the man escap...
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The Long Night
City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there...
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Voodoo Island
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The Falcon's Alibi
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels....
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Flaxy Martin
Attorney Walter Colby has ties to the mob, but he begins to regret his criminal affiliations. When h...
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One-Eyed Jacks
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the ...
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They Won't Forget
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration D...
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The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...
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Johnny Cool
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S....
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College Confidential
Sociology professor Steve MacInter is conducting a survey at Collins College about the mores and lif...
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Pigskin Parade
Bessie and Winston "Slug" Winters are married coaches whose mission is to whip their college footbal...
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The Black Bird
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the M...
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Dead of Night
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a t...
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The Indian Fighter
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daug...
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El Condor
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Two Smart People
Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his f...
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Dark Mountain
A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a...
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Mad Bull
An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets ...
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Drum Beat
President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and...
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Winterhawk
Smallpox plagues Chief Winterhawk's tribe. He seeks cure from the white men, who in turn, in fear of...
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Danger – Love at Work
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina...
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Platinum High School
At an exclusive military academy on Sabre Island, rich young delinquents think money puts them above...
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He Married His Wife
Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony ...
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They Came from the Attic
A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape,...
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Why Girls Leave Home
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night c...
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The Glass Cage
Two detectives investigate the murder of a local businessman by a mysterious woman....
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Leave 'Em Laughing
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Submarine Patrol
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a m...
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Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse
A young woman follows clues across America, searching for a missing statuette of a golden horse. Vie...
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Thunder Over the Plains
Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, ...
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Newsboys' Home
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys....
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Night Slaves
A man and his wife stumble upon a town whose inhabitants turn into zombies and head for the edge of ...
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Wildcat
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person wh...
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My Lucky Star
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports ...
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Timberjack
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timbe...
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The Devil Is Driving
In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of ...
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I, the Jury
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to...
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him....
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Two in a Crowd
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that indivi...
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Public Deb No. 1
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo...
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Papa's Delicate Condition
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Terror at Alcatraz
Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, r...
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Trial
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom ...
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The Movie Murderer
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist wh...
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Up in Arms
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-b...
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Grand Jury Secrets
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room sess...
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The Phantom of Hollywood
The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its Hollywood ...
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The Outlaw's Daughter
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The Champ
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drink...
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Scarecrow
Just before the Salem Witch Trials, an embittered old woman, who has learned witchcraft, teams up wi...
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Night Chase
A man fleeing the scene after shooting his wife's lover forms an unexpected relationship with the to...
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Life Begins in College
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it th...
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A Gentleman at Heart
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decid...
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Tin Pan Alley
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to Engla...
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Man at Large
FBI agent Bob Grayson works in collaboration with Max, a British agent posing as a fugitive German a...
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Chills and Fever
An amateur theatrical society rehearses in a deserted house which is believed to be haunted by two t...
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Manila Calling
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines ...
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Love Is News
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns th...
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Blood on the Arrow
In this western, the sole survivor of an Apache ambush rides out to save a young boy who has been ca...
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Sergeant York
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the...
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The Fatal Impulse
A man fleeing from an attempt to assassinate a political candidate puts a small bomb in the bag of a...
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Welcome to Hard Times
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its surv...
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Tom Horn
A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial f...
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The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain ga...
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring d...
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Three Blind Mice
Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husb...
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The Pigs vs. The Freaks
In a small town, the hippie faction often clashes with the mainstream. To settle their differences, ...
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Hellzapoppin'
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together...
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Cry for Poor Wally
After committing a crime, fugitive Wally takes a young woman hostage and determines not to return to...
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Sleepytime Gal
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure ...
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Kill or Be Killed
2 GI's about to go into battle in WW2 discuss how to deal with the mental issues of actual combat an...
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Honor Among Lovers
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who...
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This Girl for Hire
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private...
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Joe Palooka, Champ
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Emperor of the North
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free....
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Senior Power
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and North Hollywood Federal Savings and Loan team up to ...
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Harry's War
After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the c...
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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas...
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The Great Bank Robbery
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas...
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Baptism of Fire
Baptism of Fire is a 1943 American documentary, meant to be an Army training film. It was nominated...
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The Spy in the Green Hat
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the sce...
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Retired cop Mike Halligan decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real ...
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Her Unborn Child
'While youthful, innocent love blossoms between bashful Stew Kennedy and Elizabeth Gilbert, Dorothy ...
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Superman's Peril
Compilation of 3 episodes of "The Adventures of Superman" tv series: episode #47 ("The Golden Vultur...
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