Elisha Cook

Elisha Cook, Jr. was the actor who played Samuel T. Cogley in the first season episode .
He filmed his scenes between Monday and Tuesday at Desilu Stage 9 and Stage 10.
Cook, a familiar, pint-sized actor and former vaudevillian, had a prestigious Hollywood career spanning nearly six decades.
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 , with Leslie Parrish.
He also had roles in such popular made-for-TV movies as (1972, with fellow Original Series 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 also co-starred in several classic feature films, including (1941, with Charles Drake), (1946), (1953), (1956), (1959), and Rosemary's Baby (1968, with Gail Bonney). He also received direction from Robert Wise in (1947, co-starring Lawrence Tierney. 
Cook's other notable films include (1953, starring Biff Elliot), (1969, with , John Fiedler, and Bill Zuckert), (1972, starring William Marshall), (1973, with Hal Baylor, Sid Haig, and Victor Tayback), (1973, with Joanna Cassidy and Roy Jenson), (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.
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