Jerome Cowan

Highest Rated: 100% One Foot in Heaven (1941)

Lowest Rated: 50% Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Birthday: Oct 6, 1897

Birthplace: Not Available

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roles on stage and TV; he starred in the Broadway play My Three Angels and was top-billed on the 1951 TV series Not for Publication.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
67%	The Comic	Lawrence	—	1969
No Score Yet	The Gnome-Mobile	Dr. Conrad Ramsey	—	1967
No Score Yet	Penelope	Bank Manager	—	1966
No Score Yet	Frankie and Johnny	Wilbur	—	1965
No Score Yet	John Goldfarb, Please Come Home	Brinkley	—	1965
82%	The Patsy	Executive	—	1964
No Score Yet	Black Zoo	Jeffrey Stengle	—	1963
No Score Yet	Critic's Choice	Joe Rosenfield	—	1963
50%	Pocketful of Miracles	Mayor	—	1961
No Score Yet	All in a Night's Work	Sam Weaver	—	1961
89%	Private Property	Ed Hogate	—	1960
No Score Yet	Have Rocket, Will Travel	J.P. Morse	—	1959
No Score Yet	Dallas	Matt Coulter	—	1950
No Score Yet	The West Point Story	Jocelyn	—	1950
No Score Yet	The Fuller Brush Girl	Harvey Simpson	—	1950
80%	Young Man With a Horn	Phil Morrison	—	1950
No Score Yet	Always Leave Them Laughing	Elliot Montgomery	—	1949
No Score Yet	Blondie Hits the Jackpot	Radcliffe	—	1949
No Score Yet	Scene of the Crime	Arthur Webson	—	1949
No Score Yet	The Girl From Jones Beach	Mr. Graves	—	1949
83%	The Fountainhead	Alvah Scarret	—	1949
No Score Yet	June Bride	Carleton Towne	—	1948
No Score Yet	Night Has a Thousand Eyes	Whitney Courtland	—	1948
No Score Yet	Blondie's Reward	George M. Radcliffe	—	1948
No Score Yet	So This Is New York	Francis Griffin	—	1948
No Score Yet	Blondie's Secret	George Radcliffe	—	1948
No Score Yet	Blondie in the Dough	George Radcliffe	—	1947
No Score Yet	Riffraff	Walter Gredson	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Unfaithful	Prosecuting Attorney	—	1947
96%	Miracle on 34th Street	District Attorney Thomas Mara	—	1947
No Score Yet	Blondie's Holiday	George Radcliffe	—	1947
No Score Yet	Blondie's Big Moment	George M. Radcliffe	—	1947
No Score Yet	Blondie's Anniversary	George Radcliffe	—	1947
No Score Yet	Cry Wolf	Sen. Caldwell	—	1947
No Score Yet	Driftwood	Mayor Snyder	—	1947
No Score Yet	Blondie Knows Best	Charles Peabody	—	1946
No Score Yet	Flight to Nowhere	Gerald Porter	—	1946
No Score Yet	Mr. Ace	Peter Craig	—	1946
No Score Yet	Deadline at Dawn	Lester Brady	—	1946
60%	The Kid From Brooklyn	Fight Ring Announcer	—	1946
No Score Yet	My Reputation	George Van Orman	—	1946
No Score Yet	Mister Ace	Actor	—	1946
No Score Yet	Deadline For Murder	Actor	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Perfect Marriage	Addison Manning	—	1946
No Score Yet	Murder in the Music Hall	George Morgan	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Crime Doctor's Courage, (The Doctor's Courage)	Jeffers 'Jeff' Jerome	—	1945
No Score Yet	Fog Island	Kavanaugh	—	1945
67%	Getting Gertie's Garter	Billy	—	1945
No Score Yet	Jungle Captive	Harrigan	—	1945
No Score Yet	Guest in the House	Mr. Hackett	—	1944
No Score Yet	Crime by Night	Sam Campbell	—	1944
57%	Mr. Skeffington	Edward Morrison	—	1944
88%	The Song of Bernadette	Emperor Napoleon	—	1943
No Score Yet	Crime Doctor's Strangest Case	Malory	—	1943
No Score Yet	Silver Spurs	Jerry Johnson	—	1943
No Score Yet	Mission to Moscow	Spendler	—	1943
No Score Yet	Ladies' Day	Updyke	—	1943
No Score Yet	Who Done It?	Marco Holler	—	1942
No Score Yet	Street of Chance	Bill Diedrich	—	1942
No Score Yet	Joan of Ozark	Phillip Munson	—	1942
No Score Yet	Mr. and Mrs. North	Ben Wilson	—	1942
No Score Yet	Moontide	Dr. Brothers	—	1942
100%	One Foot in Heaven	Dr. Horrigan	—	1941
100%	The Maltese Falcon	Miles Archer	—	1941
No Score Yet	Kisses for Breakfast	Lucius Lorimer	—	1941
No Score Yet	Out of the Fog	District Attorney	—	1941
No Score Yet	Affectionately Yours	"Pappy" Cullen	—	1941
60%	The Great Lie	Jock Thompson	—	1941
90%	High Sierra	Healy	—	1941
No Score Yet	The Round Up	Wade McGee	—	1941
No Score Yet	Too Many Blondes	Ted Bronson	—	1941
80%	City for Conquest	Dutch	—	1940
No Score Yet	Torrid Zone	Bob	—	1940
No Score Yet	Castle on the Hudson	Ed Crowley	—	1940
No Score Yet	Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me	Ted Carter	—	1940
No Score Yet	Melody Ranch	Tommy Summerville	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Old Maid	Joe Ralston	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Gracie Allen Murder Case	Daniel Mirche	—	1939
No Score Yet	Exile Express	Paul Brandt	—	1939
No Score Yet	East Side of Heaven	Claudius DeWolfe	—	1939
No Score Yet	The Saint Strikes Back	Cullis	—	1939
No Score Yet	There's Always a Woman	Nick Shane	—	1938
No Score Yet	The Goldwyn Follies	Lawrence	—	1938
No Score Yet	New Faces of 1937	Robert Hunt	—	1937
No Score Yet	Beloved Enemy	O'Rourke	—	1937
89%	Shall We Dance	Arthur Miller	—	1937
100%	You Only Live Once	Dr. Hill	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Hurricane	Capt. Nagle	—	1937
No Score Yet	Vogues of 1938	Mr. Brockton	—	1937

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
82%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Jerry Hearndan	2019 1959
No Score Yet	Green Acres 1965-1971	Wilson	1970
83%	The Munsters 1964-1966	Ted	1966
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Thornbridge	1964
No Score Yet	My Favorite Martian 1963-1966	Dr. E.A. Jackson	1963
No Score Yet	Perry Mason 1957-1966	Victor Royce	1959 1958

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