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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.152 |
| Birthday | 1901-09-26 |
| Place of Birth | Portland, Oregon |
| Also Known As | Дональд Кук, |
1936
Show Boat
6.756/41
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.
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Show Boat
1933
Baby Face
7.3/120
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her hap...
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Baby Face
1934
Viva Villa!
6.227/22
In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.
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Viva Villa!
1931
The Public Enemy
7.2/343
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blo...
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The Public Enemy
1935
The Spanish Cape Mystery
5.4/10
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
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The Spanish Cape Mystery
1931
Safe in Hell
6.7/39
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the...
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Safe in Hell
1996
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
5.3/30
The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie miss...
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The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
1933
Frisco Jenny
6.3/18
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the...
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Frisco Jenny
1932
Penguin Pool Murder
5.5/10
New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank...
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Penguin Pool Murder
1950
Our Very Own
5.7/10
During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parent...
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Our Very Own
1935
The Casino Murder Case
6.5/10
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...
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The Casino Murder Case
1931
Party Husband
5/1
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its pr...
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Party Husband
1935
Confidential
5.6/5
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.
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Confidential
1934
Most Precious Thing in Life
5.2/5
An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald...
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Most Precious Thing in Life
1933
The Circus Queen Murder
5/5
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...
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The Circus Queen Murder
1932
The Man Who Played God
7.4/7
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royale is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to ass...
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The Man Who Played God
1931
The Mad Genius
6.3/20
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer fa...
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The Mad Genius
1935
Motive for Revenge
5/1
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...
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Motive for Revenge
1944
Murder in the Blue Room
5/5
A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.
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Murder in the Blue Room
1933
The Kiss Before the Mirror
5.5/15
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.
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The Kiss Before the Mirror
1932
The Heart of New York
6.7/3
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.
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The Heart of New York
1936
The Leavenworth Case
5/1
Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly tycoon, who is murdered shortly after announcing he p...
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The Leavenworth Case
1936
Beware Of Ladies
5/1
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 w...
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Beware Of Ladies
1945
Patrick the Great
4/1
A famous stage actor hopes to land the lead role in a big new Broadway musical, but he's unaware his teenage son has already been given the part.
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Patrick the Great
1933
Brief Moment
2.7/3
A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying...
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Brief Moment
1933
Jennie Gerhardt
4/1
This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.
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Jennie Gerhardt
1933
The World Changes
4.8/6
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr....
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The World Changes
1934
The 9th Guest
5.7/17
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 v...
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The 9th Guest
1935
The Night Is Young
5/2
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 balle...
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The Night Is Young
1936
Ellis Island
5/2
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 m...
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Ellis Island
1935
Ladies Love Danger
0/0
A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoon mistakenly entering the apartm...
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Ladies Love Danger
1931
Side Show
5/3
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
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Side Show
1937
Circus Girl
4/1
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
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Circus Girl
1934
Long Lost Father
5.7/6
A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.
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Long Lost Father
1931
Unfaithful
0/0
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.
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Unfaithful
1932
The Conquerors
5.7/3
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
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The Conquerors
1932
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
0/0
Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
1934
Whirlpool
5.6/4
An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.
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Whirlpool
1933
Fury of the Jungle
0/0
Joan Leesom is stranded in a remote South American jungle village. She is pursued by the rapacious Taggart Taggart, however, has been involved with th...
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Fury of the Jungle
1935
Behind the Evidence
2/1
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 con...
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Behind the Evidence
1935
Here Comes the Band
5/1
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 girlfrie...
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Here Comes the Band
1943
Freedom Comes High
0/0
A young wife learns that freedom must sometimes be paid for in lives, when her husband's ship is struck during battle.
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Freedom Comes High
1935
Murder in the Fleet
5/2
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of te...
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Murder in the Fleet
1936
The Girl from Mandalay
3/1
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 e...
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The Girl from Mandalay
1937
Two Wise Maids
0/0
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 th...
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Two Wise Maids
1945
Blonde Ransom
0/0
Vicki Morrison is the niece of the irascible old scoundrel Uncle William Morrison. When Vicki's boyfriend and owner of a Broadway nightclub Duke Randa...
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Blonde Ransom
1944
Bowery to Broadway
0/0
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erup...
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Bowery to Broadway
1934
Fugitive Lady
6/1
In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.
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Fugitive Lady
1933
The Woman I Stole
3.5/2
A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.
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The Woman I Stole
1930
Roseland
3.5/2
A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.
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Roseland
1936
Ring Around the Moon
3/2
Despite being in love with coworker Kay Duncan, high-flying newspaperman Ross Graham winds up engaged to socialite Gloria Endicott, a woman he doesn't...
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Ring Around the Moon
1935
The Calling of Dan Matthews
3/1
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a...
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
1945
Here Come the Co-eds
5.6/24
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly cl...
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Here Come the Co-eds
1931
Taxi!
6.8/30
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered...
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Taxi!
1934
Jealousy
4.7/3
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...
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Jealousy
1935
Gigolette
4.7/3
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 Y...
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Gigolette
1931
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
6.3/3
Golf expert Bobby Jones arrives on the golf course to join actors James Cagney, Anthony Bushell, Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, and Louise Fazenda in shoo...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'
1933
Private Jones
0/0
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...
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Private Jones
1933
Fog
5/1
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 b...
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Fog
1936
Can This Be Dixie?
0/0
A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.
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