Jerome Cowan
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From vaudeville and stock companies, actor Jerome Cowan graduated to Broadway in the now-forgotten farce We've Gotta Have Money. While starring in the 1935 Broadway hit Boy Meets Girl, Cowan was spotted by movie producer Sam Goldwyn, who cast Cowan as a sensitive Irish rebel in 1936's Beloved Enemy. Most of Cowan's subsequent films found him playing glib lawyers, shifty business executives and jilted suitors. A longtime resident at Warner Bros., the pencil-mustached Cowan appeared in several substantial character parts from 1940 through 1949, notably the doomed private eye Miles Archer in The Maltese Falcon. Warners gave Cowan the opportunity to be a romantic leading man in two "B" films, Crime By Night (42) and Find the Blackmailer (43). As the years rolled on, Cowan's air of slightly unscrupulous urbanity gave way to respectability, and in this vein he was ideally suited for the role of Dagwood Bumstead's new boss Mr. Radcliffe in several installments of Columbia's Blondie series; he also scored in such flustered roles as the hapless district attorney in Miracle on 34th Street. Cowan briefly left Hollywood in 1950 to pursue more worthwhile roles on stage and TV; he starred in the Broadway play My Three Angels and was top-billed on the 1951 TV series Not for Publication. In his fifties and sixties, Cowan continued essaying roles calling for easily deflated dignity (e.g. The Three Stooges' Have Rocket Will Travel [59] and Jerry Lewis' Visit to a Small Planet [60]) and made regular supporting appearances on several TV series, among them Valiant Lady, The Tab Hunter Show, Many Happy Returns and Tycoon.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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67% | The Comic |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | The Gnome-Mobile |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | Penelope |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | Frankie and Johnny |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home |
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— | 1965 |
82% | The Patsy |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | Black Zoo |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Critic's Choice |
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— | 1963 |
50% | Pocketful of Miracles |
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— | 1961 |
No Score Yet | All in a Night's Work |
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— | 1961 |
89% | Private Property |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | Have Rocket, Will Travel |
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— | 1959 |
No Score Yet | Dallas |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | The West Point Story |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | The Fuller Brush Girl |
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— | 1950 |
80% | Young Man With a Horn |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Always Leave Them Laughing |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Blondie Hits the Jackpot |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Scene of the Crime |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | The Girl From Jones Beach |
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— | 1949 |
83% | The Fountainhead |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | June Bride |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Night Has a Thousand Eyes |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Blondie's Reward |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | So This Is New York |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Blondie's Secret |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Blondie in the Dough |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Riffraff |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | The Unfaithful |
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— | 1947 |
96% | Miracle on 34th Street |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Blondie's Holiday |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Blondie's Big Moment |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Blondie's Anniversary |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Cry Wolf |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Driftwood |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Blondie Knows Best |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Flight to Nowhere |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Mr. Ace |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Deadline at Dawn |
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— | 1946 |
60% | The Kid From Brooklyn |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | My Reputation |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Mister Ace |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Deadline For Murder |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | The Perfect Marriage |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Murder in the Music Hall |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | The Crime Doctor's Courage, (The Doctor's Courage) |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Fog Island |
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— | 1945 |
67% | Getting Gertie's Garter |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Jungle Captive |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Guest in the House |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Crime by Night |
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— | 1944 |
57% | Mr. Skeffington |
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— | 1944 |
88% | The Song of Bernadette |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Crime Doctor's Strangest Case |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Silver Spurs |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Mission to Moscow |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Ladies' Day |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Who Done It? |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Street of Chance |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Joan of Ozark |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Mr. and Mrs. North |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Moontide |
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— | 1942 |
100% | One Foot in Heaven |
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— | 1941 |
100% | The Maltese Falcon |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Kisses for Breakfast |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Out of the Fog |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Affectionately Yours |
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— | 1941 |
60% | The Great Lie |
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— | 1941 |
90% | High Sierra |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | The Round Up |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Too Many Blondes |
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— | 1941 |
80% | City for Conquest |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Torrid Zone |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Castle on the Hudson |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Melody Ranch |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | The Old Maid |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | The Gracie Allen Murder Case |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Exile Express |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | East Side of Heaven |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | The Saint Strikes Back |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | There's Always a Woman |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | The Goldwyn Follies |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | New Faces of 1937 |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Beloved Enemy |
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— | 1937 |
89% | Shall We Dance |
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— | 1937 |
100% | You Only Live Once |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | The Hurricane |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Vogues of 1938 |
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— | 1937 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
Green Acres
1965-1971
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83% |
The Munsters
1964-1966
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
My Favorite Martian
1963-1966
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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