Steve Cochran

Actor

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Also Known As

Robert Alexander Cochran

Birth Place

Eureka, California, USA

Born

June 25, 1917

Died

June 16, 1965

Cause of Death

Lung Infection

Biography

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Rugged, masculine lead with slicked-back jet-black hair, usually cast as cads or insentitive lovers, who hit his peak in the 1950s. Discovered by Mae West, with whom he appeared on stage in the Broadway revival of "Diamond Lil" (1948) and "Catherine the Great" (the latter winning him a Warner Bros. contract), Cochran was forceful as a gangster in Raoul Walsh's "White Heat" (1949), he sta...

Filmography

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Tell Me in the Sunlight (1967)

Tell Me in the Sunlight (1967)

Mozambique (1966)

Of Love and Desire (1963)

Il grido (1962)

The Deadly Companions (1961)

Photos & Videos

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Tomorrow Is Another Day (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You're Not Through Paying

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You Can't Dance

Family & Companions

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Florence Lockwood

Wife

Artist.

Fay McKenzie

Wife

Actor. Divorced in 1951.

Jonna Jensen

Wife

Married in 1961 when she was 19.

Biography

Rugged, masculine lead with slicked-back jet-black hair, usually cast as cads or insentitive lovers, who hit his peak in the 1950s. Discovered by Mae West, with whom he appeared on stage in the Broadway revival of "Diamond Lil" (1948) and "Catherine the Great" (the latter winning him a Warner Bros. contract), Cochran was forceful as a gangster in Raoul Walsh's "White Heat" (1949), he starred as a wanderer in Michelangelo Antonioni's sullen "Il Grido" (1957), and directed, produced and wrote a feature, "Tell Me in the Sunlight" (released 1967), before his premature death aboard his yacht in 1965.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Tell Me in the Sunlight (1967)

Cast (Feature Film)

Tell Me in the Sunlight (1967)

Mozambique (1966)

Of Love and Desire (1963)

Il grido (1962)

The Deadly Companions (1961)

I, Mobster (1959)

The Beat Generation (1959)

The Big Operator (1959)

Quantrill's Raiders (1958)

Wes [Cap. Alan Wescott, also known as Michael Davis]

Circus of Love (1958)

The Weapon (1957)

Come Next Spring (1956)

Private Hell 36 (1954)

Carnival Story (1954)

She's Back on Broadway (1953)

Back to God's Country (1953)

The Desert Song (1953)

Capt. Claud Fontaine

Shark River (1953)

Operation Secret (1952)

Marcel Brevoort

The Lion and the Horse (1952)

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)

The Tanks Are Coming (1951)

Francis Aloysius "Sully" Sullivan

Raton Pass (1951)

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)

Bill Clark, also known as Mike Lewis

Jim Thorpe--All-American (1951)

Peter Allendine

Storm Warning (1951)

Highway 301 (1950)

The Damned Don't Cry (1950)

White Heat (1949)

Big Editor Somers

A Song Is Born (1948)

Copacabana (1947)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

The Chase (1946)

The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)

Speed McFarlane

Wonder Man (1945)

Ten Grand Jackson

The Gay Senorita (1945)

Tomas Obrion, also known as Tim O'Brien

Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)

Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945)

Producer (Feature Film)

Come Next Spring (1956)

Music (Feature Film)

Tell Me in the Sunlight (1967)

Life Events

1944

Broadway debut

1945

Screen acting debut in "Wonder Man"

1949

Under contract to Warner Bros.

1953

Founded Robert Alexander Productions

1965

Directorial and producing debut, "Tell Me in the Sunlight" (also photographed and starred; released posthumously in 1967)

Photo Collections

The Deadly Companions - Movie Poster

The Deadly Companions - Movie Poster

Videos

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You're Not Through Paying Steve Cochran is inmate Bill, getting his going-away talk from the prison warden Harry Antrim, having evidently spent most of his life incarcerated, not clear what the guy waiting outside (John Kellogg) is up to, opening Tomorrow Is Another Day, 1951, also starring Ruth Roman.

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1947) -- (Movie Clip) You Can't Dance Bill (Steve Cochran), convicted of murder as a pre-teen, just-paroled and having left his hometown due to bad press, now in New York, not familiar with taxi-dancing etiquette, meets Nikki (Lynne Millan) then the more cordial Cay (Ruth Roman), in Tomorrow Is Another Day, 1951.

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Team Up Or Split Up On the run but not quite committed to each other, after the death of her cop boyfriend, whom she’s allowed to believe he shot, newly-paroled Bill (Steve Cochran) and taxi-dancer Cay (Ruth Roman) have checked into an out-of-the-way motel, in Tomorrow Is Another Day, 1951.

White Heat (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Red Hot Buzz Saw The first "domestic" scene, featuring Cody (James Cagney) and Ed (Steve Cochran) and introducing Ma (Margaret Wycherly) and Verna (Virginia Mayo) and foreshadowing troubles, in Raoul Walsh's White Heat, 1949.

White Heat (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Changing Engineers Cody (James Cagney) and the gang (Mickey Knox, Ford Rainey et al) in the car, Big Ed (Steve Cochran) on the train, in the neatly shot "tunnel job" sequence opening Raoul Walsh's White Heat, 1949.

Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Fulfilling That Promise Charles Bickford as coach "Pop" Warner continues narration from a testimonial dinner flashback, first appearance of Burt Lancaster as the grown-up title character, meeting his predecessor as B-M-O-C (Steve Cochran), in Jim Thorpe -- All-American, 1951.

Jim Thorpe -- All-American -- (Movie Clip) Quit Complaining Coach "Pop" Warner (Charles Bickford) continuing his narration, about the time his restless track star Burt Lancaster (title character) hustled his way into the football squad, charming Margaret (Phyllis Thaxter) supporting, in Jim Thorpe -- All-American, 1951.

Deadly Companions, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Hatin' And Wantin' Revenge Complex tension as Billy and Turk (Steve Cochran, Chill Wills) follow maybe-partner "Yellow Leg," (Brian Keith) who's trying to make amends with Kit (Maureen O'Hara), escorting her to a desert town to bury her son, whom he accidentally killed in a gunfight, in Sam Peckinpah's The Deadly Companions, 1961.

Deadly Companions, The (1961) -- (Movie Clip) That's What I Call Pretty In his first feature, presaging things to come, director Sam Peckinpah stages a church service in a saloon, new-in-town "Yellow-Leg" (Brian Keith) and Billy (Steve Cochran) await their third (Chill Wills) as Maureen O'Hara is introduced, mocked by others in Strother Martin's congregation, early in The Deadly Companions, 1961.

Beat Generation, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Bass Fiddle Without Strings No one using the word rape, though it was all-but shown on screen, investigating cop Culloran (Steve Cochran) revealing an ugly cynicism, Jackie Coogan (a.k.a. "Uncle Fester") his partner, Margaret Hayes the victim, in The Beat Generation, 1959.

Storm Warning (1951) -- (Movie Clip) They Blame The Klan Still on the night of the Klan killing of a nosey reporter, small town prosecutor Rainey (Ronald Reagan) visits local big shots at the bowling alley, Barr (Hugh Sanders) suspected, Faulkner (Raymond Greenleaf) thinking P-R, in Storm Warning, 1951.

Storm Warning (1951) -- (Movie Clip) They Were Wearing Hoods Little sister Lucy (Doris Day) is off camera getting new hubby Hank (Steve Cochran) ready to meet her visiting sister Marsha (Ginger Rogers), who's just witnessed a Klan murder on her first night in their deep-South town, in Stuart Heisler's Storm Warning, 1951.

White Heat - (Original Trailer) A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic in White Heat (1949) starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien.

Best Years Of Our Lives, The - (Re-issueTrailer) Seven Oscars including Best Picture went to this story of America immediately after World War II, The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946).

Jim Thorpe--All-American - (Original Trailer) The famous Native American athlete (Burt Lancaster) fights prejudice in his pursuit of sports stardom in Jim Thorpe--All-American (1951).

Carnival Story - (Re-issue Trailer) A German carnival is torn apart by a love triangle in Carnival Story (1954) starring Anne Baxter.

Slander - (Original Trailer) M-G-M takes on the then-current "tell-all" magazines in Slander (1957) with Van Johnson as the victim of rumor.

Dallas - (Original Trailer) A renegade Confederate officer (Gary Cooper) tries to hide his identity while bringing law and order to the West in Dallas (1950).

Companions

Florence Lockwood

Wife

Artist.

Fay McKenzie

Wife

Actor. Divorced in 1951.

Jonna Jensen

Wife

Married in 1961 when she was 19.

Bibliography

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