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Elisha Cook Jr.

Elisha Cook Jr.

Birthday: 1903-12-26 | Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2023
Synthwave Horror: House On Haunted Hill

as    Watson Pritchard

1987
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

as    Pappy Glue

1986
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as    Self (from Don't Bother to Knock [1952]) (archive footage)

1982
Hammett

as    Eli the Taxi Driver

1982
Terror at Alcatraz

as    Hotel Desk Clerk

1981
Leave 'Em Laughing

as    Jetter

1981
Harry's War

as    Sgt. Billy

1980
Carny

as    On-Your-Mark

1980
Tom Horn

as    Stable Hand

1979
The Champ

as    Georgie

1979
Salem's Lot

as    Gordon 'Weasel' Phillips

1979
Salem's Lot

as    Gordon 'Weasel' Phillips

1979
Salem's Lot

as    Gordon 'Weasel' Phillips

1979
Salem's Lot

as    Gordon 'Weasel' Phillips

1977
Dead of Night

as    Karel

1977
Mad Bull

as    Sweeper

1975
Winterhawk

as    Finley

1975
The Black Bird

as    Wilmer Cook

1974
Messiah of Evil

as    Charlie

1973
Emperor of the North

as    Gray Cat

1973
Electra Glide in Blue

as    Willie

1972
The Night Stalker

as    Mickey Crawford