1. Steve Cochran was appearing with Constance Bennett in a touring production of Without Love in December 1943 when he was signed by Sam Goldwyn.
29 Facts About Steve Cochran
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Steve Cochran had a supporting role opposite Groucho Marx in Copacabana for United Artists.
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Steve Cochran made his TV debut in "Dinner at Antoine's" for The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse and followed this with "Tin Can Skipper" for NBC Presents.
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Steve Cochran then returned to Broadway to support Mae West in a shortlived revival of her play Diamond Lil.
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Steve Cochran supported Joan Crawford in The Damned Don't Cry, after which he was given his first lead role, in Highway 301, playing a gangster.
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Steve Cochran was a villain to Gary Cooper's hero in Dallas and played a Ku Klux Klan member in Storm Warning with Ginger Rogers and Doris Day.
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Steve Cochran was a villain in Canyon Pass, a western, and then was given the lead in Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison, which inspired Johnny Cash to write his song "Folsom Prison Blues".
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Steve Cochran starred in the low-budget action film Shark River for United Artists and was a villain in Back to God's Country, which starred Rock Hudson, at Universal.
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Steve Cochran returned to television, appearing in episodes of Lux Video Theatre, and Studio One in Hollywood.
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Steve Cochran reportedly made a film in Mexico called Embarcardero, which he wrote and directed.
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Steve Cochran then went to Germany to make Carnival Story for the King Brothers.
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Steve Cochran then went to the UK to play the lead in The Weapon.
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Steve Cochran went to Italy to star in Il Grido for Michelangelo Antonioni alongside Alida Valli and Betsy Blair; filming took seven months.
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Steve Cochran played the lead roles in Quantrill's Raiders, an Allied Artists western, and in I Mobster, a Roger Corman gangster film.
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In late 1959, Steve Cochran played a petty criminal trying to cash in on the supernatural talents of an elderly street peddler.
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Steve Cochran had the lead in the TV movie The Renegade and was in Sam Peckinpah's debut feature, The Deadly Companions.
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Steve Cochran was Merle Oberon's co-star in Of Love and Desire, shot in Mexico.
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Steve Cochran had the lead in Mozambique for Harry Alan Towers.
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In 1953, Steve Cochran formed his own production company, Robert Alexander Productions, which attempted to make some television series, and films such as The Tom Mix Story, Hope is the Last Thing to Die, about the Mexican War, and Klondike Lou.
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Steve Cochran wrote, produced, directed, and starred in Tell Me in the Sunlight.
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Steve Cochran was a notorious womanizer and attracted tabloid attention for his tumultuous private life, which included well-documented affairs with numerous starlets and actresses.
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Steve Cochran was married and divorced three times to actresses Fay McKenzie, Florence Lockwood, and Jonna Jensen.
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Steve Cochran and Lockwood had one daughter, Xandra, through whom he was the grandfather of film and television producer Alex Johns, who was a co-executive producer for more than seventy episodes of the animated television series Futurama.
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In 1950, Steve Cochran hired future screenwriter and actor Montgomery Pittman as a gardener at Steve Cochran's Beverly Hills home.
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Steve Cochran was in trouble with the police several times in his life, including a reported assault and a charge of reckless driving in 1953.
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Steve Cochran fell ill and died two days later, on June 15,1965, at the age of 48, of what was later determined to be an acute lung infection.
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Steve Cochran's widow was given half of his estate of $25,000.
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Steve Cochran shared it with his daughter by another marriage.
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Steve Cochran has a star at 1750 Hollywood Boulevard in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.