Acting • AGE 48
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 o...


Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
Self
2007

Tell Me In The Sunlight
Dave
1965

Mozambique
Brad Webster
1964

Burke's Law
St. John Carlisle
1963

Of Love and Desire
Steve Corey
1963

Stoney Burke
1962

The Virginian
Jamie Dobbs
1962

Bus Stop
1961

The Deadly Companions
Billy Keplinger
1961

Route 66
1960

The Twilight Zone
Fred Renard
1959

The Big Operator
Bill Gibson
1959

The Beat Generation
Dave Culloran
1959

I, Mobster
Joe Sante
1959

Naked City
Niccolo Mori
1958

Quantrill's Raiders
Captain Alan 'Wes' Westcott
1958

Il Grido
Aldo
1957

Slander
H.R. Manley
1957

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Marshal Cam Tolby
1956

The Weapon
Mark Andrews
1956

Come Next Spring
Matt Ballot
1956

Fremont: The Trailblazer
John C. Fremont
1956

Climax!
Ralph Leslie
1954

Private Hell 36
Police Sgt. Cal Bruner
1954

Carnival Story
Joe Hammond
1954

Shark River
Dan Webley
1953

Back to God's Country
Paul Blake
1953

Letter to Loretta
Joe
1953

The Desert Song
Captain Claude Fontaine
1953

She's Back on Broadway
Rick Sommers
1953

General Electric Theater
Drogo
1953

Operation Secret
Marcel Brevoort
1952

The Lion and the Horse
Ben Kirby
1952

The Tanks Are Coming
Francis Aloysius 'Sully' Sullivan
1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Jim Thorpe – All-American
Peter Allendine
1951

Tomorrow Is Another Day
Bill Clark / Mike Lewis
1951

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Chuck Daniels
1951

Raton Pass
Cy Van Cleave
1951

Storm Warning
Hank Rice
1951

Dallas
Bryant Marlow
1950

Highway 301
George Legenza
1950

The Damned Don't Cry
Nick Prenta
1950

Robert Montgomery Presents
Captain John Pringle
1950

White Heat
'Big Ed' Somers
1949

Studio One
1948

A Song Is Born
Tony Crow
1948

Copacabana
Steve Hunt
1947

The Best Years of Our Lives
Cliff Scully
1946

The Chase
Eddie Roman
1946

The Kid from Brooklyn
Speed McFarlane
1946

The Gay Senorita
Tim O'Brien
1945

Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
Jimmy Casey
1945

Wonder Man
Ten Grand Jackson
1945

Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion
Jack Higgins
1945