Biography
Elisha Vanslyck Cook, Jr. (December 26, 1903 – May 18, 1995) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elisha Cook, Jr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography (10)
Messiah of Evil
as Charlie
Blacula
as Sam
Rosemary's Baby
as Mr. Nicklas
One-Eyed Jacks
as Carvey
House on Haunted Hill
as Watson Pritchard
The Killing
as George Peatty
Shane
as Frank 'Stonewall' Torrey
Don't Bother to Knock
as Eddie Forbes
The Big Sleep
as Harry Jones
The Maltese Falcon
as Wilmer Cook