Elisha Vanslyck Cook, Jr was an American character actor who made a career out of playing cowardly villains and weedy neurotics in dozens of films. He was perhaps most noted for his portrayal of the "gunsel" Wilmer, who tries to intimidate Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. (Via TMDB)
- Origin
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Born
- December 26, 1903
- Died
- May 18, 1995 (30 years ago, at 91)