Cast
Donald Cook
Acting
Cast
Donald Cook
Known for
Acting
Born
1901-09-26
From
Portland, Oregon
Died
1961-10-01
Also known as Дональд Кук
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.
★7.2
MOVIE1933
Baby Face
as Ned Stevens
★6.5
MOVIE1931
Party Husband
as Horace Purcell
★6.0
MOVIE1934
The 9th Guest
as Jim Daley
★4.8
MOVIE1936
Ring Around the Moon
as Ross Graham
★7.3
MOVIE1931
The Public Enemy
as Mike Powers
★5.4
MOVIE1935
Gigolette
as Gregg Emerson
★7.0
MOVIE1936
The Leavenworth Case
as Dr. Truman Harwell
★8.0
MOVIE1934
Fugitive Lady
as Jack Howard
★5.9
MOVIE1932
The Penguin Pool Murder
as Philip Seymour
★6.3
MOVIE1936
Ellis Island
as Gary Curtis
★6.7
MOVIE1931
Safe in Hell
as Carl Bergen
★6.6
MOVIE1935
Murder in the Fleet
as Lieutenant Commander David Tucker
★6.4
MOVIE1931
The Mad Genius
as Fedor Ivanoff
★8.0
MOVIE1935
Ladies Love Danger
★5.9
MOVIE1934
Long Lost Father
as Bill Strong
★6.3
MOVIE1935
Confidential
as FBI Agent Dave Elliott
★5.6
MOVIE1933
The Kiss Before the Mirror
as Maria's Lover
★7.2
MOVIE1932
The Man Who Played God
as Harold Van Adam
MOVIE1948
Oysters and Muscles
★5.5
MOVIE1996
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
as Hunchback of Notre Dame
★6.7
MOVIE1936
Show Boat
as Steve Baker
★6.5
MOVIE1945
Patrick the Great
as Pat Donahue Sr.
★6.7
MOVIE1933
Frisco Jenny
as Dan Reynolds
★4.8
MOVIE1933
The World Changes
as Richard Nordholm
★6.3
MOVIE1935
Motive for Revenge
as Barry Webster
★6.8
MOVIE1932
Taxi!
as Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1944
Bowery to Broadway
as Dennis Dugan
★5.9
MOVIE1950
Our Very Own
as Fred Macaulay
★4.0
MOVIE1933
The Woman I Stole
as Corew
★6.8
MOVIE1935
The Casino Murder Case
as Lynn Llewellyn
★5.7
MOVIE1933
Jennie Gerhardt
as Lester Kane
★6.5
MOVIE1937
Circus Girl
as Charles Jerome
★6.0
MOVIE1935
The Night Is Young
as Toni Berngruber
★10.0
MOVIE1937
Two Wise Maids
as Bruce Arnold
★6.4
MOVIE1934
Whirlpool
as Bob
★5.7
MOVIE1944
Murder in the Blue Room
as Steve
★5.8
MOVIE1934
Most Precious Thing in Life
as Bob Kelsey
★5.6
MOVIE1932
The Conquerors
as Warren Lennox
★7.0
MOVIE1935
Here Comes the Band
as Don Trevor
★5.6
MOVIE1935
The Spanish Cape Mystery
as Ellery Queen
★9.0
MOVIE1932
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
as John Sutherland
★4.7
MOVIE1935
The Calling of Dan Matthews
as Frank Blair
★6.8
MOVIE1932
The Heart of New York
as Milton
★5.5
MOVIE1935
Behind the Evidence
as Ward Cameron
★5.8
MOVIE1945
Here Come the Co-Eds
as Dean Larry Benson
★5.8
MOVIE1934
Jealousy
as Mark Lambert
★3.8
MOVIE1933
Brief Moment
as Franklin Deane
★7.0
MOVIE1931
Unfaithful
as Terry Houston
★8.0
MOVIE1945
Blonde Ransom
as Duke Randall
★5.6
MOVIE1931
Side Show
as Joe Palmer
★6.0
MOVIE1936
Beware Of Ladies
as George Martin
★6.3
MOVIE1934
Viva Villa!
as Don Felipe de Castillo
★9.0
MOVIE1933
Private Jones
as Lt. John Gregg
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Can This Be Dixie?
as Longstreet Butler
★5.0
MOVIE1933
The Circus Queen Murder
as The Great Sebastian
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Freedom Comes High
★4.7
MOVIE1936
The Girl from Mandalay
as Kenneth Grainger
★7.0
MOVIE1933
Fury of the Jungle
as 'Lucky' Allen
★6.8
MOVIE1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
★6.5
MOVIE1933
Fog
as Wentworth Brown
★5.0
MOVIE1930
Roseland
as Jack