Donald Cook
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.
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Known for
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Calling of Dan Matthews
Frank Blair
Safe in Hell
Carl Bergen
Can This Be Dixie?
Longstreet Butler
The Heart of New York
Milton
The Man Who Played God
Harold Van Adam
Murder in the Fleet
Lieutenant Commander David Tucker
Most Precious Thing in Life
Bob Kelsey
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
John Sutherland
The Spanish Cape Mystery
Ellery Queen
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
The Public Enemy
Mike Powers
Beware Of Ladies
George Martin
The Penguin Pool Murder
Philip Seymour
The Casino Murder Case
Lynn Llewellyn
The Circus Queen Murder
The Great Sebastian
Lux Video Theatre
Roger
Lux Video Theatre
Bruce Wallace
Lux Video Theatre
Tad Bryson
Two Wise Maids
Bruce Arnold
The Kiss Before the Mirror
Maria's Lover
Taxi!
Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)
Here Come the Co-Eds
Dean Larry Benson
Viva Villa!
Don Felipe de Castillo
Murder in the Blue Room
Steve
Brief Moment
Franklin Deane
The Conquerors
Warren Lennox
Freedom Comes High
Baby Face
Ned Stevens
The Night Is Young
Toni Berngruber
Confidential
FBI Agent Dave Elliott
The Woman I Stole
Corew
Long Lost Father
Bill Strong
Side Show
Joe Palmer
Patrick the Great
Pat Donahue Sr.
Frisco Jenny
Dan Reynolds
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Cassidy
The Leavenworth Case
Dr. Truman Harwell
Private Jones
Lt. John Gregg
Fury of the Jungle
'Lucky' Allen
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Motive for Revenge
Barry Webster
Fog
Wentworth Brown
Circus Girl
Charles Jerome
Show Boat
Steve Baker
Our Very Own
Fred Macaulay
The 9th Guest
Jim Daley
Ring Around the Moon
Ross Graham
Fugitive Lady
Jack Howard
Party Husband
Horace Purcell
Ellis Island
Gary Curtis
Bowery to Broadway
Dennis Dugan
The Mad Genius
Fedor Ivanoff
Unfaithful
Terry Houston
Too Young to Go Steady
Tom Blake
Jennie Gerhardt
Lester Kane
The World Changes
Richard Nordholm
Ladies Love Danger
Here Comes the Band
Don Trevor
Whirlpool
Bob
The Girl from Mandalay
Kenneth Grainger
Roseland
Jack
Gigolette
Gregg Emerson
Jealousy
Mark Lambert
Behind the Evidence
Ward Cameron
ABC Album
Blonde Ransom
Duke Randall