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| − | Familiar, pint-sized actor and former vaudevillian '''Elisha Cook, Jr.''' {{born|26|December|1903|died|18|May|1995}} has had a prestigious Hollywood career |
+ | Familiar, pint-sized actor and former vaudevillian '''Elisha Cook, Jr.''' {{born|26|December|1903|died|18|May|1995}} has had a prestigious Hollywood career spanning nearly six decades. However, he is most known and loved to ''[[Star Trek]]'' fans as [[Samuel T. Cogley]] in the {{e|Court Martial}} episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''. |
Outside of ''Trek'', Cook is best remembered for his frequent appearances as aged mobster "Ice Pick" on the hit television series ''[[wikipedia:Magnum, P.I.|Magnum, P.I.]]'', from 1983 through 1988. He also had guest-starring roles on multiple other television shows, including ''[[wikipedia:Gunsmoke#Television|Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Perry Mason#The Television Incarnations|Perry Mason]]'', ''[[The Untouchables]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Wagon Train|Wagon Train]]'', ''[[wikipedia:The Wild Wild West|The Wild Wild West]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Bonanza|Bonanza]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:Batman in other media#Television|Batman]]''. He also had roles in such popular made-for-TV movies as ''[[wikipedia:The Night Stalker|The Night Stalker]]'' (1972, with fellow [[TOS]] guest stars [[Stanley Adams]] and [[Barry Atwater]]) and ''[[wikipedia:'Salem's Lot|'Salem's Lot]]'' (1979, with [[David Soul]], [[Julie Cobb]], [[Barbara Babcock]]). In 1982, he co-starred with fellow ''Star Trek'' alumni [[Diana Muldaur]], [[Roger C. Carmel]], [[Marc Lawrence]], [[Michael Pataki]], and [[Georgia Schmidt]] in the TV movie {{IMDb-name|id=tt0084779|name=Terror at Alcatraz}}. |
Outside of ''Trek'', Cook is best remembered for his frequent appearances as aged mobster "Ice Pick" on the hit television series ''[[wikipedia:Magnum, P.I.|Magnum, P.I.]]'', from 1983 through 1988. He also had guest-starring roles on multiple other television shows, including ''[[wikipedia:Gunsmoke#Television|Gunsmoke]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Perry Mason#The Television Incarnations|Perry Mason]]'', ''[[The Untouchables]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Wagon Train|Wagon Train]]'', ''[[wikipedia:The Wild Wild West|The Wild Wild West]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Bonanza|Bonanza]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:Batman in other media#Television|Batman]]''. He also had roles in such popular made-for-TV movies as ''[[wikipedia:The Night Stalker|The Night Stalker]]'' (1972, with fellow [[TOS]] guest stars [[Stanley Adams]] and [[Barry Atwater]]) and ''[[wikipedia:'Salem's Lot|'Salem's Lot]]'' (1979, with [[David Soul]], [[Julie Cobb]], [[Barbara Babcock]]). In 1982, he co-starred with fellow ''Star Trek'' alumni [[Diana Muldaur]], [[Roger C. Carmel]], [[Marc Lawrence]], [[Michael Pataki]], and [[Georgia Schmidt]] in the TV movie {{IMDb-name|id=tt0084779|name=Terror at Alcatraz}}. |
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... as Samuel T. Cogley
Familiar, pint-sized actor and former vaudevillian Elisha Cook, Jr. (26 December 1903 – 18 May 1995; age 91) has had a prestigious Hollywood career spanning nearly six decades. However, he is most known and loved to Star Trek fans as Samuel T. Cogley in the "Court Martial" episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.
Outside of Trek, Cook is best remembered for his frequent appearances as aged mobster "Ice Pick" on the hit television series Magnum, P.I., from 1983 through 1988. He also had guest-starring roles on multiple other television shows, including Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, The Untouchables, Wagon Train, The Wild Wild West, Bonanza, and Batman. He also had roles in such popular made-for-TV movies as The Night Stalker (1972, with fellow TOS guest stars Stanley Adams and Barry Atwater) and 'Salem's Lot (1979, with David Soul, Julie Cobb, Barbara Babcock). In 1982, he co-starred with fellow Star Trek alumni Diana Muldaur, Roger C. Carmel, Marc Lawrence, Michael Pataki, and Georgia Schmidt in the TV movie Template:IMDb-name.
He has also co-starred in several classic feature film, including The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), Shane (1953), The Killing (1956), the original House on Haunted Hill (1959), and Rosemary's Baby (1968). He also received direction from Robert Wise in the classic 1947 film-noir Born to Kill, co-starring Lawrence Tierney.
Cook's other notable films include I, the Jury (1953, starring Biff Elliot), Template:IMDb-name (1969, with John Anderson, John Fiedler, and Bill Zuckert), Blacula (1972, starring William Marshall in the title role), Emperor of the North Pole (1973, with Hal Baylor, Sid Haig, and Vic Tayback), Template:IMDb-name (1973, with Joanna Cassidy and Roy Jenson), Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979, with Jerry Hardin, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, and Dick Miller), and Template:IMDb-name (1981, with Salome Jens, David Ogden Stiers, and Noble Willingham).
Cook died of a stroke in Big Pine, California in 1995 at the age of 91.
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