Donald Cook

Born: 1901-09-26

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.


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The Public Enemy

as Mike Powers
Released: 1931-04-23

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum...

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Baby Face

as Ned Stevens
Released: 1933-07-13

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon...

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Here Come the Co-eds

as Dean Larry Benson
Released: 1945-02-02

Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a...

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Murder in the Fleet

as Lieutenant Commander David Tucker
Released: 1935-05-24

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to...

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The World Changes

as Richard Nordholm
Released: 1933-11-25

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as...

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Viva Villa!

as Don Felipe de Castillo
Released: 1934-04-27

In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer...

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Long Lost Father

as Bill Strong
Released: 1934-01-19

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had...

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Frisco Jenny

as Dan Reynolds
Released: 1933-01-14

Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906)....

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The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas

as Hunchback of Notre Dame
Released: 1996-12-17

The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the...

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The Man Who Played God

as Harold Van Adam
Released: 1932-02-09

While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royale is...

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Here Comes the Band

as Don Trevor
Released: 1935-08-30

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by...

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The 9th Guest

as Jim Daley
Released: 1934-01-31

Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find...

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Safe in Hell

as Carl Bergen
Released: 1931-12-12

To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where...

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Show Boat

as Steve Baker
Released: 1936-05-17

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into...

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Fugitive Lady

as Jack Howard
Released: 1934-12-10

In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel...

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Patrick the Great

as Pat Donahue Sr.
Released: 1945-05-04

A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware...

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Taxi!

as Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)
Released: 1931-12-29

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling...

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Ring Around the Moon

as Ross Graham
Released: 1936-02-15

Despite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up...

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Penguin Pool Murder

as Philip Seymour
Released: 1932-12-09

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous...

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Brief Moment

as Franklin Deane
Released: 1933-09-29

A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though...

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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'

as uncredited
Released: 1931-04-15

Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell,...

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The Spanish Cape Mystery

as Ellery Queen
Released: 1935-10-09

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

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The Heart of New York

as Milton
Released: 1932-03-26

A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side...

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The Conquerors

as Warren Lennox
Released: 1932-11-18

A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

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The Trial of Vivienne Ware

as John Sutherland
Released: 1932-05-01

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

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Bowery to Broadway

as Dennis Dugan
Released: 1944-11-03

Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them...

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Private Jones

as Lt. John Gregg
Released: 1933-03-25

After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by...

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Jennie Gerhardt

as Lester Kane
Released: 1933-06-08

This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a...

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The Mad Genius

as Fedor Ivanoff
Released: 1931-09-30

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer....

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The Kiss Before the Mirror

as Maria's Lover
Released: 1933-05-04

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney...

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Confidential

as FBI Agent Dave Elliott
Released: 1935-10-16

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime...

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Fury of the Jungle

as 'Lucky' Allen
Released: 1933-10-23

Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the...

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Unfaithful

as Terry Houston
Released: 1931-03-14

In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in...

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Side Show

as Joe Palmer
Released: 1931-09-19

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

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The Girl from Mandalay

as Kenneth Grainger
Released: 1936-04-19

John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When...

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Fog

as Wentworth Brown
Released: 1933-11-11

The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense...

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Our Very Own

as Fred Macaulay
Released: 1950-07-27

During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is...

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Roseland

as Jack
Released: 1930-09-07

A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.

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The Leavenworth Case

as Dr. Truman Harwell
Released: 1936-01-20

Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly...

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Whirlpool

as Bob Andrews
Released: 1934-04-10

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

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Most Precious Thing in Life

as Bob Kelsey
Released: 1934-06-15

An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's...

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The Calling of Dan Matthews

as Frank Blair
Released: 1935-12-10

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters),...

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Murder in the Blue Room

as Steve
Released: 1944-10-27

A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house...

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The Night Is Young

as Toni Berngruber
Released: 1935-01-11

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the...

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The Woman I Stole

as Corew
Released: 1933-06-29

A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the...

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The Casino Murder Case

as Lynn
Released: 1935-03-15

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes...

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Jealousy

as Mark Lambert
Released: 1934-11-23

Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of...

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Gigolette

as Gregg Emerson
Released: 1935-02-15

Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades...

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Party Husband

as Horace Purcell
Released: 1931-06-06

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern...

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Circus Girl

as Charles Jerome
Released: 1937-03-01

A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.

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Motive for Revenge

as Barry Webster
Released: 1935-05-15

Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually...

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Can This Be Dixie?

as Longstreet Butler
Released: 1936-11-13

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an...

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Two Wise Maids

as Bruce Arnold
Released: 1937-02-15

The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers...

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The Circus Queen Murder

as The Great Sebastian
Released: 1933-04-10

Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and...

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Ladies Love Danger

as uncredited
Released: 1935-12-12

Fox comedy about an adventurous young woman

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The Philco Television Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1948-10-03

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Cassidy
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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