Elisha Cook

Familiar, pint-sized actor and former vaudevillian Elisha Vanslyck Cook, Jr. has had a prestigious Hollywood career spanning nearly six decades. However, he is most known and loved to Star Trek fans as Samuel T. Cogley in the episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.

Outside of Trek, Cook is best remembered for his frequent appearances as aged mobster "Ice Pick" on the hit television series , from 1983 through 1988. He also had guest-starring roles on multiple other television shows, including ', ', The Untouchables, ', ', ', and '. He also had roles in such popular made-for-TV movies as ' (1972, with fellow TOS guest stars Stanley Adams and Barry Atwater) and ' (1979, with David Soul, Julie Cobb, Barbara Babcock, and Reggie Nalder). In 1982, he co-starred with fellow Star Trek alumni Diana Muldaur, Roger C. Carmel, Marc Lawrence, Michael Pataki, and Georgia Schmidt in the TV movie.

He has also co-starred in several classic feature film, including ' (1941), ' (1946), Shane (1953), ' (1956), the original ' (1959), and Rosemary's Baby (1968). He also received direction from Robert Wise in the classic 1947 film-noir , co-starring Lawrence Tierney.

Cook's other notable films include ' (1953, starring Biff Elliot), (1969, with John Anderson, John Fiedler, and Bill Zuckert), ' (1972, starring William Marshall in the title role), ' (1973, with Hal Baylor, Sid Haig, and Vic Tayback),  (1973, with Joanna Cassidy and Roy Jenson), Steven Spielberg's ' (1979, with Jerry Hardin, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, and Dick Miller), and  (1981, with Salome Jens, David Ogden Stiers, and Noble Willingham).

Cook died of a stroke in Big Pine, California in 1995 at the age of 91.