Donald Cook
Nacimiento : 1901-09-26, Portland, Oregon
Muerte : 1961-10-01
Historia
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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Hunchback of Notre Dame
Película para la televisión con los personajes de la serie de televisión estadounidense "La familia Monster" de 1960. La película está ambientada en la época navideña. Eddie, está muy nostálgico y no le gusta el hecho de no poder pasar la Navidad en Transilvania. Así que a Herman se le ocurre la idea de ayudar a hacer inolvidable la Navidad a Eddie.
Fred Macaulay
Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
Pat Donahue Sr.
Un joven con talento se presenta a una audición y consigue el papel, pero después se entera de que estaba destinado a su padre, y alberga sus dudas.
Duke Randall
Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke Randall needs $63,000 in a hurry, Vicki fakes her own kidnapping to raise the ransom money from her uncle. Things get sticky when the phony abduction turns real.
Dean Larry Benson
Tres amigos, Oliver Quackenbush (Lou Costello), Molly McCarthy (Martha O'Driscoll), y su hermano Slats McCarthy (Bud Abbott) tienen un trabajo en el Salón Miramar como bailarines. Slats publica un artículo falso en el periódico local, con la ambición de Molly para recaudar fondos para asistir a Bixby Colegio. El decano de Bixby (Donald Cook) lee el artículo y le ofrece una beca. Ella está de acuerdo, pero solo si sus dos amigos pueden acompañarla, por lo que son contratados como vigilantes.
Dennis Dugan
Dos actores de vodevil encuentran el éxito produciendo espectáculos en Broadway, pero cuando uno de ellos se pone a trabajar para una hermosa mujer, se enemistan ferozmente.
Steve
A singer, her girlfriends and a mystery writer stay in the house where her father was killed.
A young wife learns that freedom must sometimes be paid for in lives, when her husband's ship is struck during battle.
Charles Jerome
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Bruce Arnold
The two leading ladies are cast as Prudence and Agatha, a pair of old-fashioned schoolteachers in an old-fashioned small town. Disdaining the wimpy theories of "progressive" education, Prudence and Agatha stick to the reliable "Three R's," often teaching to the tune of a hickory stick. Though ridiculed for their so-called outmoded methods, the heroines manage to turn out quite a few prize students, earning the undying gratitude of the local citizenry.
George Martin
An unhappily married newspaper reporter discovers she's being used as a pawn in a scheme to discredit the political candidate she's been assigned to write about.
Longstreet Butler
Withers y su padre Summerville llegan a una mansión sureña y convierten a los recolectores de algodón en animadores para recaudar dinero para salvar el lugar.
Gary Curtis
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended and sent to prison for ten years but the money is not recovered. Flash forward to 1936 when all three men have been released from prison and are about to be deported back to where they came from via the Deportation department at Ellis Island. They arrive by the ferry boat and already on hand to bid them adieu, and possibly learn where they stashed the missing money, is gang leader Dude and his three henchmen, Nails, Moxie and Bugs, and also Kendrich's niece Betty Parker there to bid old Uncle Ted a fond goodbye. Also on Ellis Island is a crook called Solo, who has an upper hand as he has stolen the credentials of a Treasury Agent named Peter James and has access to the prisoners, and has cut a deal with Kendrichs to get him off of Ellis Island.
Steve Baker
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Kenneth Grainger
John Foster and Kenneth Grainger are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor, writes him that their engagement is off, he goes off to Mandalay.
Ross Graham
Ring Around the Moon was based on the once-popular novel by Vera Hobart. The story endeavors to invite comparisons between the high-toned romantic adventures of wealthy Gloria Endicott and more earthy amours of low-born Kay Duncan. Caught between both ladies is confused hero Ross Graham.
Dr. Truman Harwell
Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he plans to change his will and give away his fortune.
Fox comedy about an adventurous young woman
Frank Blair
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
FBI Agent Dave Elliott
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
Ellery Queen
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
Don Trevor
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Lieutenant Commander David Tucker
La Secretaria de la Armada informa al capitán Winslow de que va a recibir un nuevo mecanismo de control que revolucionará la guerra en el mar. Pero el mecanismo no tarda en desaparecer...
Barry Webster
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty...
Lynn
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the casino owned by Uncle Kinkaid, Lynn is indeed poisoned under the watchful eye of Philo. However, he recovers, but the same cannot be said for Lynn's wife Virginia, who is at the family home. Only a family member could have poisoned Lynn and Virginia and everyone has their dark motives. Philo will follow the clues and find the perpetrator.
Gregg Emerson
Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New York City clip-joint, which he operates on the theory that if the suckers want it he'll give it to them, albeit he does apply some principles regarding the matter. A Broadway playboy, Greg Emerson, falls in love with Kay and proposes but his high-society parents object strongly. Terry. although he also has fallen in love with Kay and doesn't realize she feels the same about him, sets out to provide a happy ending for the couple.
Toni Berngruber
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
Ward Cameron
Norman Foster plays a millionaire who takes a job as a reporter after he's wiped out in the Stock Market. Foster's managing editor Samuel S. Hinds considers the young upstart to be a pain in the neck. But all is forgiven-at least until next time-when Foster solves a series of puzzling robberies..
Jack Howard
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
Mark Lambert
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
Bob Kelsey
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Jane Darwell, Mary Forbes and Ward Bond.
Don Felipe de Castillo
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
Bob Andrews
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
Jim Daley
Eight people are invited by an unsigned telegram to a penthouse apartment, where they find themselves locked in and greeted by their unknown host's voice via the radio, who explains that before the night is over each one will be die unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest, Death.
Bill Strong
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
Richard Nordholm
Ambicioso largometraje que engloba a tres generaciones de la familia Nordholm en sesenta años de historia. Una saga que arranca con cierto toque de western, al presentar una granja de Dakota del Sur, donde el joven Orin marcha en busca de mejores oportunidades de vida. Una vez instalado en Chicago alcanza un gran éxito al inventar un sistema de refrigeración para automóviles. Cuando todo parece irle sobre ruedas (nunca mejor dicho), el crack del 29 le golpea duramente.
Wentworth Brown
The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense fog, and many of the passengers come under suspicion before the actual killer is bought to justice with the aid of a very substantial "ghost."
'Lucky' Allen
Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with the beautiful native girl Chita. Chita now feels nothing but hatred for Joan, creating a deadly triangle that leads to an explosive ending.
Franklin Deane
Un joven millonario se casa con una cantante, que ejerce sobre él una influencia inesperada.
Ned Stevens
Lilly Powers es una camarera de una horrible ciudad industrial que trabaja en la cantina de su padre, donde aprende las malas artes de los clientes masculinos. Cuando este muere, se traslada a Nueva York con su criada, donde aprovechará su experiencia y su capacidad de engatusar a los hombres para ir escalando posiciones. En la gran manzana conoce a Jimmy McCoy, un botones de oficina que la ayuda a conseguir un trabajo en la Gotham Trust Company. A partir de entonces seduce y rechaza a varios hombres.
Corew
A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.
Lester Kane
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
Maria's Lover
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.
The Great Sebastian
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a calm oasis, but when a small time circus rolls into town they soon find themselves caught up in a sordid tale of marital infidelity, murder, cruelty to animals, and cannibalism.
Lt. John Gregg
After America enters World War I, young William "Bill" Jones tries to avoid military service by telling the draft board that he is the sole supporter of his family and is employed by businessman Roger Winthrop, his sister Helen's boss.
Dan Reynolds
Jenny está embarazada de un joven que muere en el terremoto de San Francisco de 1906 y, después de dar a luz, decide poner a su hijo bajo la custodia de un matrimonio rico. Años después, gracias a la protección de un político corrupto, se convierte en la principal 'madame' de San Francisco, además de participar en diversas actividades ilegales. Su hijo, ya adulto, se propone acabar con la corrupción y los negocios sucios, sin sospechar que su propia madre está implicada en ellos.
Philip Seymour
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.
Warren Lennox
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
John Sutherland
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
Milton
A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
Harold Van Adam
La oculta providencia cuenta la historia de un ilustre concertista de piano, Montgomery Royale (George Arliss), que se queda sordo al explotar una bomba en París muy cerca de él. Primer papel protagonista de Bette Davis.
Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Carl Bergen
Para evitar los rigores de la ley, Gilda huye de Nueva Orleans y se esconde en una isla caribeña donde los peores criminales pueden pedir asilo. Asediada por indeseables, Gilda descubrirá pronto que ha encontrado refugio en el mismísimo Infierno.
Fedor Ivanoff
Prolongación de "Svengali" (1931), continúa el drama de una figura siniestra que adopta a un adolescente como discípulo. En este caso, se trata de un titiritero lisiado (John Barrymore), que rescata a un abusado niño y lo convierte en un gran bailarín de ballet.
Joe Palmer
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
Horace Purcell
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays the coquette whose intended conquest of the free-thinking hubby (James Rennie) starts to throw the couple’s “understanding” awry.
Mike Powers
Relato del auge y caída de Tom (James Cagney), un criminal de poca monta que asciende rápidamente gracias a la Ley Seca. Con la colaboración de su mejor amigo y cómplice (Edward Woods) Tom, seducido por el poder y el dinero, se involucra en turbios negocios.
Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell, Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, and Louise Fazenda in shooting a golf instruction film. Louise Fazenda however has no knowledge of golf and her ongoing commentary disrupts Jones's attempts to practice. While Cagney and Bushell hold Louise's mouth shut, Jones demonstrates his approach to golf. Later, upon arrival of director George Marshall, Louise is sent off "to practice" alone while the cast and crew go about shooting the film.
Terry Houston
In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.
Jack
A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.
