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Oct 23, 2022 · There, medical authorities deduced Cochran died of a mysterious lung infection that also caused paralysis. One report said the medical examiner in Guatemala City who did the autopsy knew...
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Steve Cochran (born Robert Alexander Cochran, [citation needed] May 25, 1917 – June 15, 1965) was an American film, television and stage actor. He attended the University of Wyoming.
We’ve identified the body...and his name is Steve Cochran. He was a truly mutable corpse, a one-man death toll, with screen termi-nations numbering around two dozen crossing over all genres, with. solid dozen of those occurring in film noir.
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Born Robert Alexander Cochran, son of a California lumberman, he worked mostly in the theatre before landing a contract with Samuel Goldwyn in 1945. His debut was Wonder Man (1945) with Virginia Mayo and Danny Kaye. From 1949 to 1952, he was signed to Warner Brothers, then started up his own production company. In 1965 he sailed off in his yacht to...
Husky, hairy-chested, darkly handsome Steve Cochran was all man -- and a slick ladies' guy to boot. They didn't come much rougher and tougher than he both off- and on-camera. Throughout post-WWII Hollywood and the 1950s, he played the swarthiest and sexiest of coldhearted villains, with mustache or without, in a few films now considered classics. W...
Christened Robert Alexander Cochran, the actor was born on May 25, 1917, in Eureka, California, but grew up in Laramie, Wyoming, as the son of a logger. While he appeared in high school plays, he spent more time delving into athletics, particularly shooting hoops. After stints as a cowpuncher and railroad station hand, he studied at the University ...
Working as a carpenter and department store detective during his early days, he gained experience appearing in summer stock and then returned to California in the early 1940s when he was given the chance to work with the Shakespeare Festival in Carmel. There, he played the highly visible roles of \"Orsino\" in \"Twelfth Night\", \"Malcolm\" in \"Ma...
Following a notable stint as the incomparable Mae West's leading stud in her 1949 revival of \"Diamond Lil\" on Broadway, Steve was picked up by Warner Bros. and began to create what would become his signature gangster persona in Hollywood. The violent-edged White Heat (1949) may have become a prime classic thanks to James Cagney's riveting perform...
Warners gave him some great roles in the beginning of the 1950s. Beginning with Joan Crawford's gangster paramour in the film noir The Damned Don't Cry (1950) and Ruth Roman's ex-convict hubby in Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951), he then became a nemesis to sweet Doris Day in Storm Warning (1951) and earned strong notice for the gritty drama Inside t...
In the meantime, Cochran showed true grit in such films as Carnival Story (1954) and Private Hell 36 (1954). In the mid-1950s, he founded his own production company, Robert Alexander Productions, in order to promote a more heroic image in films. This resulted in the excellent but little-known drama Come Next Spring (1956), opposite Ann Sheridan. Be...
In 1965, Steve hired an assortment of ladies for an \"all-girl crew\" to accompany him on a boating trip to check out locations for an upcoming film he was to produce and star in entitled \"Captain O'Flynn.\" Leaving Acapulco on June 3rd, the boat encountered extremely stormy weather and Steve's health, which was not good in the first place (he too...
- May 25, 1917
- June 15, 1965
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.
The official cause of his death was given as Acute Infectious Edema (lung infection). He is perhaps best remembered for his role of Big Ed Somers, the power hungry gangster pal of James Cagney in "White Heat" (1949).
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