Peter Cookson (May 8, 1913 – January 6, 1990) was an American stage and film actor of the 1940s and 1950s. He was known for his collaborations with his wife, Beatrice Straight, an actress and member of the Whitney family.
Cookson was born on May 8, 1913, on a houseboat on the Willamette River in Milwaukie, Oregon, to Gerald Cookson, a career British Army officer, and Helen Willis, a nurse.[citation needed] Cookson attended the Pasadena Playhouse on a scholarship.[1]
Cookson appeared in the play The Heiress on Broadway in 1947,[2] where he met his wife to-be, Beatrice Straight.[1][3] He was also a producer and produced the play The Innocents on Broadway in 1950, starring his wife.[3] Cookson's most famous stage role was of the love struck judge in Cole Porter's 1953 musical Can-Can[4] in which he introduced the song "It's All Right With Me."[3] His New York Times obituary noted that "[i]n interviews at the time, he said he was astonished at being given the part, as he had not sung for an audience since high school."[1]
Cookson starred in several feature films during the 1940s, including G. I. Honeymoon (1945) and Fear (1946), before moving exclusively to television during the following decade.
He was a founding member of The Actors Studio, as was his second wife Beatrice Straight.[5]
In 1937, Peter married Maureen Gray.[citation needed] Before their divorce in 1948, they had:[6]
Peter and Maureen separated in Spring 1947. They attempted a reconciliation in the Summer of 1947, renting a house in Denver. At that time, Cookson had an affair with actress Patricia Neal. His wife found out and left him.[6]
In 1948, while starring in the Broadway production of The Heiress,[7] an adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square, Cookson met Beatrice Straight, who he was acting opposite. Straight was the daughter of Dorothy Payne Whitney, of the Whitney family, and Willard Dickerman Straight, an investment banker and diplomat. Straight's step-father was Leonard Knight Elmhirst. Cookson and Straight married in 1949, and had two children:[1][8]
Cookson died in 1990 of bone cancer at his home in Southfield, Massachusetts.[1] Beatrice died in 2001 from pneumonia in Northridge, Los Angeles at the age of eighty-six.[10]
Lewis' class included Herbert Berghof, Marlon Brando... Beatrice Straight, Eli Wallach, and David Wayne... Also Henry Barnard, Jay Barney, John Becher, Philip Bourneuf, Joan Chandler, Peter Cookson, Stephen Elliott, Robert Emhardt, Joy Geffen, William Hansen, Will Hare, Jane Hoffman, George Keane, Don Keefer, George Matthews, Peggy Meredith, Ty Perry, Margaret Phillips, David Pressman, William Prince, Elliot Reid, Frances Reid, Kurt Richards, Elizabeth Ross, Thelma Schnee, Joshua Shelley, Fed Stewart, John Straub, Michael Strong, John Sylvester, Julie Warren, Mary Welch, Lois Wheeler, and William Woodson.
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Beatrice Straight, a graceful and versatile actress who won both an Oscar and a Tony Award, died on Saturday in North Ridge, Calif. She was 86 and lived in Beverly Hills, Calif., for most of the last 10 years. ...
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