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Jerome Cowan
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Actor Born: October 6, 1897 in New York City, NY Death: January 24, 1972 in Encino, CA Biography: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... Full Biography
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