1. Jerome Palmer Cowan was an American stage, film, and television actor.
11 Facts About Jerome Cowan
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Jerome Cowan was spotted by Samuel Goldwyn and was given a film contract, his first film being Beloved Enemy.
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Jerome Cowan appeared in more than one hundred 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.
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Jerome Cowan played Dagwood Bumstead's boss Mr Radcliffe in several installments of Columbia Pictures' Blondie series.
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Jerome Cowan starred in Not for Publication on the DuMont Television Network in 1952.
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Jerome Cowan appeared on Daniel Boone and Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly.
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In 1964 and 1965, Jerome Cowan appeared as the demanding Herbert Wilson in The Tycoon.
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In 1968 Jerome Cowan played a movie producer on Gomer Pyle, USM.
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On January 24,1972, Jerome Cowan died at Encino Hospital Medical Center in Encino, California at age 74.
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Jerome Cowan was survived by his wife and two daughters.
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Jerome Cowan has a star at 6251 Hollywood Boulevard in the Television section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.