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Elisha Cook Jr., Lawrence Tierney, and Claire Trevor in Born to Kill (1947)

Elisha Cook Jr. and Ella Raines in Phantom Lady (1944)

Elisha Cook Jr., Carolyn Craig, Richard Long, and Julie Mitchum in House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Vincent Price, Elisha Cook Jr., Richard Long, Alan Marshal, and Julie Mitchum in House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Elisha Cook Jr. in House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Vincent Price, Elisha Cook Jr., and Carolyn Craig in House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Elisha Cook Jr. and Julie Mitchum in House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Vincent Price, Elisha Cook Jr., Carolyn Craig, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, and Julie Mitchum in House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Elisha Cook Jr., Carolyn Craig, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, and Julie Mitchum in House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Lucille Ball and Elisha Cook Jr. in Two Smart People (1946)

Elisha Cook Jr. in Two Smart People (1946)

Elisha Cook Jr. and John Hodiak in Two Smart People (1946)

Elisha Cook Jr. and Dennis Weaver in McCloud (1970)

Elisha Cook Jr. and Robert H. Harris in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)

Roman Polanski and Elisha Cook Jr. in Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Peter Lorre, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, and Elisha Cook Jr. in The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Elisha Cook Jr. in The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Elisha Cook Jr. in The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, and Elisha Cook Jr. in The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Humphrey Bogart and Elisha Cook Jr. in The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Humphrey Bogart, James Burke, and Elisha Cook Jr. in The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Elisha Cook Jr. and Marie Windsor in The Killing (1956)

Elisha Cook Jr., Ted de Corsia, and Joe Sawyer in The Killing (1956)

Although this pint-sized actor started out in films often in innocuous college-student roles in mid-1930's rah-rahs, playing alongside the likes of a pretty Gloria Stuart or a young, pre-"Oz" Judy Garland, casting directors would soon enough discover his flair for portraying intense neurotics or spineless double-dealers. Thus was he graduated from the innocuous to the noxious. In Warner's They Won't Forget (1937), for example, he plays the role of a student whose social engagement with a young Lana Turner, debuting here in a featured role, seems to have been broken by her whereas, possibly unbeknownst to him, she has quite mysteriously been murdered. Cook becomes so enraged, venting such venom, that the movie audience can only look upon him as a prime suspect in Lana's demise. In Universal's Phantom Lady (1944), he portrays a nightclub-orchestra drummer who, under the intoxicating influence of some substance or other, encounters Ella Raines during an afternoon's band practice. Thoroughly taken with her slinky allure, he enacts a drum-solo piece that is of such crescendo, and played with such innuendo, as to suggest - glaringly - nothing except his own fantasized sexual journey from cymbal foreplay through bass-drum climax.

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