# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-cook
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:28:20.701Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-cook"
name: "Donald Cook"
slug: "donald-cook"
description: "Donald Cook was an American stage and film actor who had a prolific career in pre-Code Hollywood films and on Broadway. Cook is perhaps best known for his film roles in The Public Enemy (1931), Safe in Hell (1931), Baby Face (1933), and Viva Villa! (1934), as well as for his stage role as David Naughton in Claudia, which ran for a total of 722 performances on Broadway between 1941 and 1943. He was the first actor to play Ellery Queen."
tagline: "American actor (1901-1961)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donald_Cook_Columbia_promo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1901-09-26"
deathDate: "1961-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.90317066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007219/"
    handle:    "nm0007219"
sources:
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    title: "دونالد كوك (ممثل)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Donald Cook"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Cook_(actor)"
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    title: "Donald Cook (actor)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Donald Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Cook_(acteur)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Cook_(pemeran)"
    title: "Donald Cook (pemeran)"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Donald Cook"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump