- Born Name: Jerome Palmer Cowan
- Birthday: 1897-10-06 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Helen Dodge (1905-1980)
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- Medium: Actor
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Jerome Cowan, Jerome Palmer Cowan (October 6, 1897 – January 24, 1972) was an American film and television actor. At eighteen he joined a travelling stock company, shortly afterwards enlisting in the navy in World War I. After the war he returned to the stage and became a vaudeville headliner, then gained success on the New York stage. He was spotted by Samuel Goldwyn and was given a film contract, his first film being Beloved Enemy.He appeared in over 100 films, but is probably best remembered for two roles in classic films: Miles Archer, the doomed private eye partner of Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Thomas Mara, the hapless district attorney who has to prosecute Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street.The New York-born actor also played Dagwood Bumsteads boss Mr. Radcliffe in several installments of Columbia Pictures Blondie series. He also appeared in Deadline at Dawn, June Bride, and High Sierra.In the 1960-1961 television season, Cowan starred as John Larsen, the owner of Comics, Inc., and the boss of Paul Morgan, a young cartoonist portrayed by Tab Hunter in the 32-segment The Tab Hunter Show on NBC. In 1962, he guest starred on Fess Parkers ABC sitcom, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. In 1964 and 1965, Cowan appeared as the demanding Herbert Wilson alongside Walter Brennan in the 32-episode ABC series The Tycoon.[edit] Partial filmographyBeloved Enemy (1936)You Only Live Once (1937)Shall We Dance (1937)Vogues of 1938 (1937)The Hurricane (1937)The Goldwyn Follies (1938)Theres Always a Woman (1938)St. Louis Blues (1939)The Saint Strikes Back (1939)The Old Maid (1939)Castle on the Hudson (1940)Torrid Zone (1940)City for Conquest (1940)Melody Ranch (1940)High Sierra (1941)The Great Lie (1941)Affectionately Yours (1941)Out of the Fog (1941)One Foot in Heaven (1941)The Maltese Falcon (1941)Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)Moontide (1942)Street of Chance (1942)Who Done It? (1942)Mission to Moscow (1943) (uncredited)The Song of Bernadette (1943)Mr. Skeffington (1944)The Jungle Captive (1945)Divorce (1945)My Reputation (1946)Deadline at Dawn (1946)The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)Murder in the Music Hall (1946)Mr. Ace (1946)Miracle on 34th Street (1947)The Unfaithful (1947)Riffraff (1947)Cry Wolf (1947)Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)June Bride (1948)The Fountainhead (1949)Scene of the Crime (1949)Young Man with a Horn (1950)The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)The West Point Story (1950)Gold Raiders (1951)Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959)The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (1959)Visit to a Small Planet (1960)All in a Nights Work (1961)Pocketful of Miracles (1961)Critics Choice (1963)Black Zoo (1963)John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)Frankie and Johnny (1966) (uncredited)Penelope (1966)The Gnome-Mobile (1967)The Comic (1969)[edit] External linksJerome Cowan at the Internet Movie DatabaseJerome Cowan at the Internet Broadway DatabaseJerome Cowan at Find a GravePersondataNameCowan, JeromeAlternative namesShort descriptionActorDate of birth1897-10-6Place of birthNew York, New York, United StatesDate of death1972-01-24Place of deathEncino, California, United StatesRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_CowanCategories: 1897 births | 1972 deaths | Actors from New York City | Actors from New York | American film actors | American television actors | American stage actors | People from New York City | People from New YorkHidden categories: Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesSuomiFrançais This page was last modified on 2 January 2011 at 00:17.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();