Peter Cookson

Peter Cookson

Born: May 8, 1913
Died: January 6, 1990

Movies for Peter Cookson...

White Lies
Title: White Lies
Character: Horrible Skinhead
Released: March 29, 1998
Type: Movie
How can a smart middle class girl suddenly turn into a devoted right wing debater? That's what happens with Catherine when she meets the charismatic leaders of the neo-nazi organization NIM. Catherine, a first-year university student who feels alienated from the liberal campus, joins a hate group through the Internet and becomes their voice, only to gradually question their beliefs even as she becomes more deeply involved.
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Title: DuPont Show of the Month
Character: Manuel
Released: September 29, 1957
Type: TV
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Title: The Millionaire
Character: Alan Bruce
Released: January 19, 1955
Type: TV
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
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Don't Gamble with Strangers
Title: Don't Gamble with Strangers
Character: Bob Randall
Released: June 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint.
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Strange Conquest
Title: Strange Conquest
Character: William Sommers
Released: April 1, 1946
Type: Movie
Two doctors try to find the cure for a fatal disease, while battling each other for the affection of a beautiful woman doctor.
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Fear
Title: Fear
Character: Larry Crain
Released: March 2, 1946
Type: Movie
B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.
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The Scarlet Horseman
Title: The Scarlet Horseman
Character: Kirk Norris
Released: January 22, 1946
Type: Movie
Government agents work to interfere with schemes to trick the Comanches into war with the Texans.
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Behind City Lights
Title: Behind City Lights
Character: Lance Marlow
Released: September 10, 1945
Type: Movie
This Republic programmer stars Lynne Roberts as a country gal who is slickered by a couple of city-fied jewel thieves, played by Peter Cookson and Jerome Cowan. Roberts is set up for a patsy by these two rogues, and nearly ends up in jail-and later on, narrowly escapes being rubbed out by gangsters.
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G.I. Honeymoon
Title: G.I. Honeymoon
Character: Lt. Robert 'Bob' Gordon
Released: April 6, 1945
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, set during WW II, an newlywed army couple are unable to consummate their marriage, as on their wedding night the husband is called away to sentry duty. Later they try again, but as he has just completed a 37-mile hike, he finds himself too tired to work up any enthusiasm for conjugal bliss. Fortunately, the bride's understanding aunt intervenes with the young man's colonel and the frustrated couple is at last able to share a night of love.
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Title: Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Character: Johnny Jones
Released: January 19, 1945
Type: Movie
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
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Shadow of Suspicion
Title: Shadow of Suspicion
Character: James 'Jimmy' Dale
Released: September 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co. jewelers to safeguard the arrival of the famous Stonehaven necklace at one of its branch offices, recently the victim of a jewel robbery.
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The Girl Who Dared
Title: The Girl Who Dared
Character: Rufus Blair
Released: August 5, 1944
Type: Movie
A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year.
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Detective Kitty O'Day
Title: Detective Kitty O'Day
Character: Johnny Jones
Released: May 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test when her investment broker boss is mysteriously murdered. But Kitty's investigation hits a snag when Inspector Miles Clancy begins to suspect that she's the culprit.
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Swingtime Johnny
Title: Swingtime Johnny
Character: Jonathan
Released: February 4, 1944
Type: Movie
The Andrews Sisters take a hiatus from show business to aid the war effort. They take on jobs at a pipe-organ plant now making artillery shells. But they still find time for plenty of singing and dancing.
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A Guy Named Joe
Title: A Guy Named Joe
Character: Sgt. Hanson (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.