Volume III: Biographies

COOK, Warren *

Actor (1916)

Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Warren Cook was an actor in a 1916 Thanhouser film.

Biographical Notes: Warren Cook was born in Boston on May 23, 1870 (one account says 1879) and was educated at the Latin School there. He followed an acting career and appeared in 1895 in the play 1492, which may have marked his stage debut. Later, he played with Phoebe Davis in Way Down East, was in the cast of The Conspiracy, spent three years at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston, and was associated with stock companies in various other cities as well. He was a member of one of the Poli stock companies and was seen in numerous theatres in New England. He went tour in 1911 in The Swag, and for several seasons was seen in the part of Senator Stoneman in the stage play version of Dixon's The Clansman. Warren Cook was a cousin of Dr. F.A. Cook, the arctic explorer who contested Peary for the honor of being the first adventurer to reach the North Pole.

His screen career commenced with one and one-half years at Edison, after which he played character parts with Vitagraph, Kalem, Pathé, Thanhouser, Kleine, Famous Players (My Lady Incog Under Cover, The Moment Before), Metro (Her Great Price, The Snowbird, The Flower of No Man's Land, Draft 258), Petrova Pictures (Daughter of Destiny), Paragon (The Straight Road, The Whip, The Rack), Fox (Slander, A Woman's Honor, etc.), Artcraft (The Pride of the Clan, Seven Keys to Baldpate), Bluebird (The Right to be Happy), and Art Drama (Infidelity).

In 1916 his home address was 253 West 42nd Street, New York City. The 1918 edition of the Motion Picture Studio Directory noted that he was 6' tall, weighed 175 pounds, and had gray hair and blue eyes. At the time his mailing address was given as care of the Green Room Club in New York City, and he was connected with the Biograph studio in the same city. Warren Cook remained in films for many years and had leading parts in dozens of pictures at least through the late 1920s. He died on May 2, 1939 at City Hospital in New York City. For several years previous he had lived at the Percy Williams Home in East Islip, New York.

Note: His surname was often misspelled as "Cooke."

Thanhouser Filmography:

1916: The Shine Girl (8-26-1916)

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