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Elisha Cook Jr.
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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
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Tom Horn
1980 · Stable Hand
1941
1979 · The Patron (Dexter)
Salem's Lot
1979 · Gordon 'Weasel' Phillips
Messiah of Evil
1975 · Charlie
Rosemary's Baby
1968 · Mr. Nicklas
The Haunted Palace
1963 · Gideon Smith / Micah Smith
One-Eyed Jacks
1961 · Carvey
House on Haunted Hill
1959 · Watson Pritchard
Plunder Road
1957 · Skeets Jonas
The Killing
1956 · George Peatty
The Indian Fighter
1955 · Briggs
The Long Night
1947 · Frank Dunlap
The Big Sleep
1946 · Harry Jones
The Maltese Falcon
1941 · Wilmer Cook