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Elisha Cook Jr. (December 26, 1903 San Francisco, California – May 18, 1995) was a weaselly American character actor, best remembered as the neurotic gun-toting thug Wilmer in The Maltese Falcon (1941). He lent welcome support to a number of horror films, invariably ending up as a victim in such titles as Voodoo Island (1957), House on Haunted Hill (1959), Blacula (1972), Messiah of Evil (1973); The Phantom of Hollywood (1974), The Night Stalker (1975), Dead of Night (1976) and 'Salem’s Lot (1979). Cook is also well remembered for his role as defense attorney Samuel T. Cogley in the Star Trek episode "Court Martial."
(Note: The term "gunsel" used to describe Wilmer in The Maltese Falcon is actually a nasty slang term, roughly equivalent to "faggot," that John Huston slipped past the censors.)

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