Steve Cochran

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He is perhaps best remembered for his role of Big Ed Somers, the power hungry gangster pal of James Cagney in "White Heat" (1949). Born Robert Alexander Cochran in Eureka, California, he was the son of a California lumberjack, who moved the family to Wyoming in the 1920s, where Cochran grew to adulthood. After graduating from the University of Wyoming in 1939, Cochran began working steadily as a Wyoming cowboy, while developing his acting skills working in summer stock and regional theaters and gradually moving on to Broadway. In 1945, he signed with MGM, and for the next several years, played mostly secondary roles as gangsters or boxers. He made his film debut with "Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion" (1945) and quickly followed with "Wonder Man" (1945). Released from his contract in 1948, he returned to Broadway where he worked with Mae West; the next year he signed on with Warner Brothers, where he earned leading roles in such films as "The Damned Don't Cry" (1950), "Highway 301" (1950) and "Tomorrow is Another Day" (1951). Warner Brothers often had him playing the villain in several of its western films, such as "Dallas" (1950), and "Back to God's Country" (1953). With the end of his contract in 1953, he began his own film company, Robert Alexander Productions, while also freelancing for other studios and moving on to guest star roles on television shows. He would show up in such television shows as Death Valley Days, Burke's Law, The Untouchables, Naked City, The Twilight Zone, Route 66, and The Virginian. A notorious womanizer, Cochran was married and divorced three times, and was often in the Hollywood tabloids reportedly having affairs with such actresses as Mae West, Jayne Mansfield, Joan Crawford, Merle Oberon, Ida Lupino and Mamie Van Doren. Cochran died under mysterious circumstances. In May 1965, Cochran had revived his production company, and together with three women, whom he had hired as his assistants, boarded his 40-foot yacht to travel to Central and South America to look for filming locations. On June 25, 1965, the yacht drifted into Port Champerico, Guatemala, with three alive but very distraught women aboard and the body of Steve Cochran, who had died ten days earlier. The women did not know how to operate the boat, and were dependent upon its drifting to shore after his death. There were numerous rumors of murder and poisoning, and actress / former lover Merle Oberon used her influence to push for further police investigation, but no evidence of foul play was ever determined. The official cause of his death was given as Acute Infectious Edema (lung infection).

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1917-05-25
  • event Death Date 1965-06-15
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 7.1
  • info Birth Place Eureka, California
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7.8

The Best Years of Our Lives

1946-12-25

6.6

Storm Warning

1951-02-10

7.5

Il Grido

1957-09-26

6.2

The Chase

1946-11-16

5.9

The Weapon

1956-09-01

6.2

Private Hell 36

1954-09-03

7.1

The Damned Don't Cry

1950-05-13

6.5

Tomorrow Is Another Day

1951-08-08

6.6

Highway 301

1950-12-01

4.9

The Beat Generation

1959-07-03

4.6

Carnival Story

1954-04-16

7.6

White Heat

1949-09-02

5.7

The Deadly Companions

1961-06-06

5.4

Copacabana

1947-05-30

4.8

Boston Blackie's Rendezvous

1945-07-05

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Tell Me In The Sunlight

1965-01-01

6.4

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

1951-05-18

6.5

I, Mobster

1959-02-01

6.3

Slander

1957-01-18

6.2

The Kid from Brooklyn

1946-03-21

8.3

The Tanks Are Coming

1951-10-31

5.4

Mozambique

1964-12-07

6.4

Dallas

1950-12-30

4.5

Quantrill's Raiders

1958-04-27

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Back to God's Country

1953-11-01

5.7

The Lion and the Horse

1952-05-16

6.5

The Desert Song

1953-05-30

4.8

Raton Pass

1951-04-07

5

Operation Secret

1952-11-05

5.8

The Big Operator

1959-08-01

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Fremont: The Trailblazer

1956-01-01

5.7

She's Back on Broadway

1953-03-14

6.6

Wonder Man

1945-06-08

5

Of Love and Desire

1963-09-11

6

Come Next Spring

1956-03-09

5.5

Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion

1945-05-10

6.2

Jim Thorpe – All-American

1951-08-24

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Shark River

1953-11-13

6.5

A Song Is Born

1948-10-19

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The Gay Senorita

1945-08-08

6.4

Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains

2007-10-26

6

Burke's Law

1963-09-20

6.4

Route 66

1960-10-07

5.3

Naked City

1958-09-30

4.7

Studio One

1948-11-07

6

General Electric Theater

1953-02-01

8.5

The Twilight Zone

1959-10-02

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Bus Stop

1961-10-01

6.4

The Virginian

1962-09-19

6

Lux Video Theatre

1950-10-02

7

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951-10-05

3

Climax!

1954-10-07

5.2

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950-01-30

5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956-10-05

5.7

Stoney Burke

1962-10-01

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Mr. Broadway

1964-09-26

6.2

Letter to Loretta

1953-09-20

6

Burke's Law

1963-09-20

6

Burke's Law

1963-09-20

4.7

Studio One

1948-11-07

4.7

Studio One

1948-11-07

3

Climax!

1954-10-07

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