Donald Cook

Donald Cook

1901-09-26 Portland, Oregon 60 Credits

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 Sp...

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The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas

The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas

1996

as Hunchback of Notre Dame

5.3
Acting

The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie miss...

Our Very Own

Our Very Own

1950

as Fred Macaulay

5.7
Acting

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...

Patrick the Great

Patrick the Great

1945

as Pat Donahue Sr.

4.0
Acting

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.

Blonde Ransom

1945

as Duke Randall

Acting

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...

Here Come the Co-Eds

Here Come the Co-Eds

1945

as Dean Larry Benson

5.7
Acting

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...

Bowery to Broadway

Bowery to Broadway

1944

as Dennis Dugan

Acting

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...

Murder in the Blue Room

Murder in the Blue Room

1944

as Steve

5.0
Acting

A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.

Freedom Comes High

1943

Acting

A young wife learns that freedom must sometimes be paid for in lives, when her husband's ship is struck during battle.

Circus Girl

Circus Girl

1937

as Charles Jerome

4.0
Acting

A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.

Two Wise Maids

Two Wise Maids

1937

as Bruce Arnold

Acting

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...

Beware Of Ladies

1936

as George Martin

5.0
Acting

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...

Can This Be Dixie?

Can This Be Dixie?

1936

as Longstreet Butler

Acting

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

Ellis Island

1936

as Gary Curtis

5.0
Acting

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...

Show Boat

Show Boat

1936

as Steve Baker

6.8
Acting

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.

The Girl from Mandalay

The Girl from Mandalay

1936

as Kenneth Grainger

3.0
Acting

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...

Ring Around the Moon

Ring Around the Moon

1936

as Ross Graham

4.0
Acting

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...

The Leavenworth Case

The Leavenworth Case

1936

as Dr. Truman Harwell

5.0
Acting

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...

The Calling of Dan Matthews

The Calling of Dan Matthews

1935

as Frank Blair

3.0
Acting

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a...

Confidential

Confidential

1935

as FBI Agent Dave Elliott

5.6
Acting

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.

The Spanish Cape Mystery

The Spanish Cape Mystery

1935

as Ellery Queen

5.4
Acting

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

Here Comes the Band

Here Comes the Band

1935

as Don Trevor

5.0
Acting

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...

Murder in the Fleet

Murder in the Fleet

1935

as Lieutenant Commander David Tucker

5.0
Acting

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...

Motive for Revenge

Motive for Revenge

1935

as Barry Webster

5.0
Acting

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 ...

Ladies Love Danger

Ladies Love Danger

1935

Acting

A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoon mistakenly entering the apartm...

The Casino Murder Case

The Casino Murder Case

1935

as Lynn

6.5
Acting

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 ...

Gigolette

Gigolette

1935

as Gregg Emerson

4.7
Acting

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...

The Night Is Young

The Night Is Young

1935

as Toni Berngruber

5.7
Acting

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...

Behind the Evidence

1935

as Ward Cameron

2.0
Acting

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...

Fugitive Lady

Fugitive Lady

1934

as Jack Howard

6.0
Acting

In this thriller, a young woman marries a dashing young man who, unbeknownst to her, is a jewel thief.

Jealousy

Jealousy

1934

as Mark Lambert

4.7
Acting

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 ...

Most Precious Thing in Life

Most Precious Thing in Life

1934

as Bob Kelsey

5.2
Acting

An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer's 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald...

Viva Villa!

Viva Villa!

1934

as Don Felipe de Castillo

6.2
Acting

In this fictionalized biography, young Pancho Villa takes to the hills after killing an overseer in revenge for his father's death.

Whirlpool

Whirlpool

1934

as Bob Andrews

6.1
Acting

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

The 9th Guest

The 9th Guest

1934

as Jim Daley

6.0
Acting

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...

Long Lost Father

Long Lost Father

1934

as Bill Strong

5.7
Acting

A long-absent father is reunited with his daughter, who still holds a grudge that he had deserted his family years earlier.

The World Changes

The World Changes

1933

as Richard Nordholm

4.8
Acting

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr....

Fog

Fog

1933

as Wentworth Brown

5.0
Acting

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...

Fury of the Jungle

Fury of the Jungle

1933

as 'Lucky' Allen

Acting

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...

Brief Moment

Brief Moment

1933

as Franklin Deane

2.7
Acting

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...

Baby Face

Baby Face

1933

as Ned Stevens

7.3
Acting

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...

The Woman I Stole

The Woman I Stole

1933

as Corew

3.5
Acting

A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.

Jennie Gerhardt

Jennie Gerhardt

1933

as Lester Kane

4.0
Acting

This turn-of-the-century tragedy chronicles the sorrowful travails of a woman who endures a series of devastating losses.

The Kiss Before the Mirror

The Kiss Before the Mirror

1933

as Maria's Lover

5.5
Acting

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 Circus Queen Murder

The Circus Queen Murder

1933

as The Great Sebastian

5.3
Acting

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...

Private Jones

Private Jones

1933

as Lt. John Gregg

Acting

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 ...

Frisco Jenny

Frisco Jenny

1933

as Dan Reynolds

6.3
Acting

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 ...

The Penguin Pool Murder

The Penguin Pool Murder

1932

as Philip Seymour

5.6
Acting

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank ...

The Conquerors

The Conquerors

1932

as Warren Lennox

4.8
Acting

A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

1932

as John Sutherland

Acting

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

The Heart of New York

The Heart of New York

1932

as Milton

6.7
Acting

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.

The Man Who Played God

The Man Who Played God

1932

as Harold Van Adam

7.2
Acting

While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assa...

Taxi!

Taxi!

1931

as Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered...

Safe in Hell

Safe in Hell

1931

as Carl Bergen

6.8
Acting

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 ...

The Mad Genius

The Mad Genius

1931

as Fedor Ivanoff

6.3
Acting

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...

Side Show

Side Show

1931

as Joe Palmer

5.0
Acting

A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.

Party Husband

Party Husband

1931

as Horace Purcell

5.0
Acting

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its pr...

The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy

1931

as Mike Powers

7.2
Acting

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...

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'

How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots'

1931

6.3
Acting

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...

Unfaithful

Unfaithful

1931

as Terry Houston

Acting

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.

Roseland

Roseland

1930

as Jack

3.5
Acting

A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.