Peter Cookson
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Career
Cookson was born in Milwaukie, Oregon, and attended the Pasadena Playhouse on a scholarship.
He appeared in the play The Heiress on Broadway in 1947, where he met his wife to-be, Beatrice Straight.[1][2] He was also a producer and produced the play The Innocents on Broadway in 1950, starring his wife. [2] Cookson's most famous stage role was of the love struck judge in Cole Porter's 1953 musical Can Can in which he introduced the song "It's All Right With Me."[2] "In interviews at the time, he said he was astonished at being given the part, as he had not sung for an audience since high school."[1]
Cookson starred in several feature films during the 1940s, including G. I. Honeymoon (1945) and Fear, before moving exclusively to television during the following decade.
He was a founding member of The Actors Studio (as was his second wife Beatrice Straight).[3]
Selected filmography
- Detective Kitty O'Day (1944)
- Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945)
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Peter Cookson, 76, A Writer, Producer And Stage Actor" The New York Times, January 8, 1990
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Peter Cookson Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed September 16, 2015
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