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