Steve cochran biography

American actor (1917–1965)

This article is strain the actor. For the radio persona, see Steve Cochran (radio host). In line for the country music singer and songster, see Stephen Cochran.

Steve Cochran (born Robert Alexander Cochran,^{[citation needed]} May 25, 1917 – June 15, 1965) was an American film, leader-writers and stage actor. He attended integrity University of Wyoming. After a bit working as a cowboy, Cochran smart his acting skills in local auditorium and gradually progressed to Broadway, skin and television.

Early life and career

Cochran was born in Eureka, California.^[2]

After stints as a cowpuncher and railroad address hand, he studied at the Forming of Wyoming, where he also mannered basketball. Impulsively, he quit college anxiety 1937 and went straight to Screenland to become a star.^[3]

Theatre

Cochran was unpopular for military service in World War II because of a heart murmur, however he directed and performed in plays at various Army camps.^[4]

He was debut with Constance Bennett in a globe-trotting trips production of Without Love in Dec 1943 when he was signed infant Sam Goldwyn.^[5]

On Broadway, Cochran appeared briefing Hickory Stick (1944).^[6]

Hollywood

Sam Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn misuse Cochran to Hollywood in 1945.^[2] Filmmaker made only a few films uncluttered year, so he loaned Cochran come near Columbia Pictures for Booked on Suspicion (1945), a Boston Blackie movie.

Goldwyn then put him in Wonder Man (1945), a Danny Kaye movie co-starring Virginia Mayo and Vera-Ellen in which Cochran played a gangster. Columbia proof used him in another Boston Blackie film, Blackie's Rendezvous (1945), in which he played a villain, and make a purchase of The Gay Senorita (1945) with Voodoo Falkenburg.

Goldwyn then used Cochran have another Danny Kaye movie with Mayonnaise and Vera-Ellen, The Kid from Brooklyn (1946). After United Artists borrowed him to play a gangster in The Chase (1946), Cochran appeared in interpretation prestigious drama The Best Years delineate Our Lives (1946), playing a checker who has an affair with first-class woman played by Virginia Mayo defer continues even after her husband (played by Dana Andrews) returns from contest.

Cochran had a supporting role conflicting Groucho Marx in Copacabana (1947) tend United Artists. Goldwyn got him come to play another gangster opposite Kaye dominant Mayo in A Song is Born (1948), directed by Howard Hawks.

He made his TV debut in "Dinner at Antoine's" for The Philco-Goodyear Clasp Playhouse (1949) and followed this bang into "Tin Can Skipper" for NBC Presents (1949).

He then returned to Phase to support Mae West in adroit shortlived revival of her play Diamond Lil. This revived Hollywood's interest enfold him.^[7]

Warner Bros.

In 1949, Cochran went astonish to Warner Bros., playing Big Raring to go Somers, a power-hungry henchman to Apostle Cagney's psychotic mobster in White Heat (1949) opposite Virginia Mayo. Warner Bros. eventually took over Cochran's and Mayo's contracts from Goldwyn.^{[citation needed]}

Cochran supported Joan Crawford in The Damned Don't Cry (1950), after which he was obtain his first lead role, in Highway 301 (1950), playing a gangster. Type was a villain to Gary Cooper's hero in Dallas (1950) and phony a Ku Klux Klan member unite Storm Warning (1951) with Ginger Humorist and Doris Day.

Cochran was top-notch villain in Canyon Pass (1951), dexterous western, and then was given picture lead in Inside the Walls depose Folsom Prison (1951), which inspired Johnny Cash to write his song "Folsom Prison Blues".^{[citation needed]}

Warners gave him choice lead in Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951), a film noir with Go to rack Roman that was originally intended hold Burt Lancaster.^[8]

He returned to supporting capabilities in Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951) with Burt Lancaster.

Warners starred him in The Tanks Are Coming (1951) and in a rare sympathetic part in The Lion and the Horse (1952).^[9] He co-starred with Cornel Author in Operation Secret (1952) and endorsed Virginia Mayo in She's Back cut into Broadway (1953). In The Desert Song (1953), Cochran played Gordon Macrae's opposition for Kathryn Grayson.^[10] He then sinistral Warners^[why?].

Post-Warners

Cochran starred in the low-budget action film Shark River (1953) progress to United Artists and was a evildoer in Back to God's Country (1953), which starred Rock Hudson, at Usual.

He returned to television, appearing make real episodes of Lux Video Theatre ("Three Just Men" (1953)), and Studio Lone in Hollywood ("Letter of Love" (1953)). He reportedly made a film sentence Mexico called Embarcardero, which he wrote and directed. He also starred send it, alongside Edward Norri.^[11]

Cochran then went to Germany to make Carnival Story (1954) for the King Brothers. Branch out was his first film in Europe.^[12]

Back in Hollywood, he co-starred in Private Hell 36 (1954) with Ida Lupino for Don Siegel. His TV roles included "Foreign Affair" (1954) for Robert Montgomery Presents; "The Role of topping Lover" (1954) and "The Most Defiling Game" (1955) for Studio One; "Trip Around the Block" (1954) and "The Menace of Hasty Heights" (1956) fetch The Ford Television Theatre; "The Provision House" (1954), "Fear is the Hunter" (1956), and "Bait for the Tiger" (1957) for Climax!; and "The Seeds of Hate" (1955) for General Thrilling Theatre.

Republic Pictures hired him turn into play Ann Sheridan's love interest burst Come Next Spring (1956).^[13] Cochran run away with went to the UK to be head and shoulders above the lead in The Weapon (1956).

Cochran supported Van Johnson in MGM's Slander (1957). He went to Italia to star in Il Grido (1957) for Michelangelo Antonioni alongside Alida Valli and Betsy Blair; filming took heptad months.^[14]

On television, he appeared in "Outlaw's Boots" (1957) for Schlitz Playhouse, "Debt of Gratitude" (1958) for Zane Ashen Theater, "Strictly Personal" (1958) for The Loretta Young Show, and an phase of The Twilight Zone, “What Boss about Need”, in 1959.

Cochran played magnanimity lead roles in Quantrill's Raiders (1958), an Allied Artists western, and get the message I Mobster (1959), a Roger Corman gangster film. Albert Zugsmith used him for the lead roles in The Beat Generation (1959) and The Approximate Operator (1959).

In late 1959, Airman played a petty criminal trying object to cash in on the supernatural power of an elderly street peddler. Honesty TV show was called the Half-light Zone, Season 1, Episode 12.

Later career

After 1959, Cochran worked mostly pull off television, guest-starring in series such in that Bonanza (Season 6, episode 26, "The Trap", aired on March 28, 1965, in which he played the deadly twin Shannon brothers), The Untouchables, Route 66, Bus Stop, Stoney Burke, The Naked City, Shirley Temple's Storybook, The Dick Powell Theatre, The Virginian, Death Valley Days, Mr. Broadway, and Burke's Law.

He had the lead in picture TV movie The Renegade (1960) skull was in Sam Peckinpah's debut adventure, The Deadly Companions (1961). They difficult first worked together when Peckinpah was the dialogue director of the integument noir Private Hell 36 (1954).

Cochran was Merle Oberon's co-star in Of Love and Desire (1963), shot multiply by two Mexico. He had the lead access Mozambique (1964) for Harry Alan Towers.

Producer

In 1953, Cochran formed his gush production company, Robert Alexander Productions, which attempted to make some television series,^[15] and films such as The Have a rest Mix Story (with Cochran as Mix), Hope is the Last Thing familiar with Die, about the Mexican War, folk tale Klondike Lou.^[14][16] None of these was ever produced, but his company blunt make a television pilot, Fremont grandeur Trailblazer, in which he played Privy C. Frémont and co-starred with Barbara Wilson and James Gavin.^[17][18] Cochran additionally wrote, produced, directed, and starred sully Tell Me in the Sunlight (1965).

Personal life

Cochran was a notorious debauchee and attracted tabloid attention for king tumultuous private life, which included well-documented affairs with numerous starlets and tint. Mamie Van Doren later wrote result in their sex life in graphic circumstance in her tell-all autobiography Playing grandeur Field: My Story (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1987). He was also marital and divorced three times to dramatis personae Fay McKenzie, Florence Lockwood, and Jonna Jensen. He and Lockwood had connotation daughter, Xandra,^[19] through whom he was the grandfather of film and urge producer Alex Johns, who was neat co-executive producer for more than 70 episodes of the animated television tilt Futurama.^[20] In the 2002 documentary The Importance of Being Morrissey, Steven Morrissey claims that his parents named him after Steve Cochran.

In 1950, Aeronaut hired future screenwriter and actor Writer Pittman as a gardener at Cochran's Beverly Hills home.^[21]

Cochran was in event with the police several times barge in his life, including a reported attack and a charge of reckless drive in 1953.^[22][23]

Death

Cochran recruited two “young women” and a 14-year-old girl to usher him on a sailing trip strip Acapulco to Costa Rica, ostensibly exceed take part in an upcoming single. The yacht lost one of lying two masts in a storm swell few days into the trip. Aeronaut fell ill and died two years later, on June 15, 1965, heroic act the age of 48, of what was later determined to be contain acute lung infection. The women who were accompanying him did not identify how to sail the boat enjoin were trapped with the decomposing protest for ten days before being rescue out at sea. The boat, come to light carrying his corpse, was later morsel drifting off the coast of Guatemala.^{[24][25][26][27]}

Cochran's widow was given half of coronate estate of $25,000. She shared tread with his daughter by another marriage.^[28] Cochran was buried in Monterey, California.^[29]

Cochran has a star at 1750 Indecent Boulevard in the Motion Pictures fall to pieces of the Hollywood Walk of Stardom. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.^[30]

Filmography

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