Jerome Cowan

Actor

About

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Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

October 06, 1897

Died

January 24, 1972

Filmography

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The Comic (1969)

The Gnome-Mobile (1967)

Dr. Conrad Ramsey

Penelope (1966)

Frankie and Johnny (1966)

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)

The Patsy (1964)

Photos & Videos

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Maltese Falcon, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Spade And Archer

There's Always A Woman (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Go On With Your Quarrelling

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Comic (1969)

The Gnome-Mobile (1967)

Dr. Conrad Ramsey

Penelope (1966)

Frankie and Johnny (1966)

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)

The Patsy (1964)

Black Zoo (1963)

Jeffrey Stengel

Critic's Choice (1963)

All in a Night's Work (1961)

Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Visit to a Small Planet (1960)

George Abercrombie

Private Property (1960)

Have Rocket--Will Travel (1959)

The System (1953)

Criminal Lawyer (1951)

Disc Jockey (1951)

The Fat Man (1951)

The West Point Story (1950)

William Jacelyn

The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)

Young Man with a Horn (1950)

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950)

When You're Smiling (1950)

Herbert Reynolds

The Fountainhead (1949)

Scene of the Crime (1949)

The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)

Blondie's Big Deal (1949)

George Radcliffe

Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)

Blondie Hits the Jackpot (1949)

George Radcliffe

So This Is New York (1948)

Francis Griffin

June Bride (1948)

Blondie's Secret (1948)

George Radcliffe

Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)

Whitney Courtland

Wallflower (1948)

Blondie's Reward (1948)

George Radcliffe

Dangerous Years (1948)

Arthur Takes Over (1948)

George Bradford

The Perfect Marriage (1947)

Addison Manning

Blondie's Big Moment (1947)

George M. Radcliffe

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Blondie's Anniversary (1947)

George Radcliffe

Blondie in the Dough (1947)

George Radcliffe

Driftwood (1947)

Blondie's Holiday (1947)

George Radcliffe

Riffraff (1947)

Walter [F.] Gredson

The Unfaithful (1947)

Prosecuting attorney

Cry Wolf (1947)

Senator [Charles] Caldwell

The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)

Fight announcer

Claudia and David (1946)

A Night in Paradise (1946)

Murder in the Music Hall (1946)

Blondie Knows Best (1946)

Charles Peabody

Deadline at Dawn (1946)

My Reputation (1946)

George Van Ormand

One Exciting Week (1946)

Deadline for Murder (1946)

Flight to Nowhere (1946)

Getting Gertie's Garter (1945)

One Way to Love (1945)

A. J. Gunther, also known as Eustace Hinkelmuff

Blonde Ransom (1945)

The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)

Fog Island (1945)

[John] Kavanaugh

Behind City Lights (1945)

Hitchhike to Happiness (1945)

Judge Jim Driscoll

The Jungle Captive (1945)

[W. L.] Harrigan

G. I. Honeymoon (1945)

The Song of Bernadette (1945)

Emperor Louis Napoleon III

Mr. Skeffington (1944)

Editor Morrison

Guest in the House (1944)

Minstrel Man (1944)

Sing a Jingle (1944)

Crime by Night (1944)

South of Dixie (1944)

Brains [Bill Watson]

Silver Spurs (1943)

No Place for a Lady (1943)

Hi' Ya, Sailor (1943)

Find the Blackmailer (1943)

Ladies' Day (1943)

The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943)

Mallory Cartwright

Mission to Moscow (1943)

The Bugle Sounds (1942)

Who Done It? (1942)

Thru Different Eyes (1942)

A Gentleman at Heart (1942)

Street of Chance (1942)

Mr. & Mrs. North (1942)

The Girl from Alaska (1942)

'Frisco Lil (1942)

Joan of Ozark (1942)

Moontide (1942)

Dr. [Frank] Brothers

One Foot in Heaven (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941)

High Sierra (1941)

Out of the Fog (1941)

Assistant district attorney

Affectionately Yours (1941)

The Great Lie (1941)

The Round Up (1941)

Rags to Riches (1941)

Marshall Abbott

Too Many Blondes (1941)

Singapore Woman (1941)

[Martin] Ricardo

Kisses for Breakfast (1941)

City for Conquest (1940)

Melody Ranch (1940)

Tommy Summerville

The Quarterback (1940)

Street of Memories (1940)

Castle on the Hudson (1940)

Torrid Zone (1940)

Meet the Wildcat (1940)

Digby [Vanderhood]

Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me (1940)

Monty de Granville

Wolf of New York (1940)

District attorney Cosgrove

The Old Maid (1939)

East Side of Heaven (1939)

Claudius DeWolfe

The Great Victor Herbert (1939)

The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)

She Married a Cop (1939)

The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

Exile Express (1939)

Saint Louis Blues (1939)

The Goldwyn Follies (1938)

Director [Lawrence]

There's Always a Woman (1938)

The Hurricane (1937)

You Only Live Once (1937)

New Faces of 1937 (1937)

Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1938 (1937)

Shall We Dance (1937)

Beloved Enemy (1936)

Cast (Special)

The Farmer's Daughter (1962)

Meet Corliss Archer (1956)

Harry Archer; Corliss'S Father

Life Events

1936

Film acting debut

Videos

Maltese Falcon, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Spade And Archer San Francisco detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) receives "Miss" O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor), soon joined by partner Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan), early in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, 1941, from the Dashiell Hammett novel.

There's Always A Woman (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Go On With Your Quarrelling Bill (Melvyn Douglas), who doesn't know his wife Sally (Joan Blondell) has taken a case for his detective agency he thinks he just shut down, tries to keep up as she tracks the dinner party of her client (Mary Astor), in There's Always A Woman, 1938.

June Bride (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Like Living In A Wallet Quippy reporter Carey (Robert Montgomery) arrived in New York, informed by magazine editor Towne (Jerome Cowan) that his Vienna posting is over, finds out he’s being pushed toward a more profitable wedding magazine, early in Warner Bros.’ June Bride, 1948, also starring Bette Davis.

Private Property (1960) -- (Movie Clip) You Don't Breed A Bird With A Snake Having demonstrated now that they're criminals, Duke and Boots (Corey Allen, Warren Oates) pounce on the first customer at the gas station (Jerome Cowan as salesman Ed), then the next, Kate Manx, wife of the writer-director Leslie Stevens, as stylish and disoriented Ann, early in Private Property, 1960.

Critic's Choice (1963) -- (Movie Clip) He's Murdering The Play Opening from director Don Weis, Marilyn Maxwell on the Broadway stage, then we meet principals, Bob Hope (as critic Parker) and wife Lucille Ball, encountering John Dehner and Evan McCord, then at the newsroom Jerome Cowan and Richard Deacon, in Critic’s Choice, 1963, from the play loosely based on the real-life couple Walter and Jean Kerr.

My Reputation (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Women On The Loose First scene for Eve Arden as pal "Ginna," hailing newly widowed Jessica (Barbara Stanwyck), who's just seen her two sons off to boarding school, reflecting together when unduly interested George (Jerome Cowan) appears again, in My Reputation, 1946, directed by Curtis Bernhardt.

Vogues Of 1938 (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Can't Be Married! Fed-up New York fashion house chief Curson (Warner Baxter) at work, his crankiest customer the mother (Hedda Hopper) of a bride (Joan Bennet, strawberry blonde in Technicolor) who'd rather call the whole thing off, early in producer Walter Wanger's eye-candy variety show Vogues Of 1938, 1937.

Night In Paradise, A (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Slave Called Aesop Opening narration only loosely historical, introducing Turhan Bey as the hero Aesop, then exposition from scribes (Jerome Cowan, Ernest Truex), plush settings from producer Walter Wanger, in A Night In Paradise, 1946.

Young Man With A Horn (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I've Been Fired Before Trumpeter Rick (Kirk Douglas) leading band-mate Smoke (Hoagy Carmichael) and others into trouble, as boss Chandler (Walter Reed) gets further dissed by singer Jo (Doris Day), in Young Man With A Horn, 1950.

Saint Strikes Back, The -- (Movie Clip) Naples In The Spring San Francisco, a night club on New Years' Eve, nervous Val (Wendy Barrie) at her table, a murder, and Templar (George Sanders, his first scene in the title role) to the rescue, in The Saint Strikes Back, 1938, directed by John Farrow.

Maltese Falcon, The (1941) -- (Original Trailer) Humphrey Bogart plays Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941), possibly the greatest detective movie of all time.

Fuller Brush Girl, The - (Re-issue Trailer) Lucille Ball stars as a daffy door-to-door saleswoman who blunders into a murder investigation in The Fuller Brush Girl (1950).

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