# Lillian Cook

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{{short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Lillian Cook
| image              = Betsy_Ross_(1917)_-_2.jpg
| caption            = Cook (right) in ''Betsy Ross'' (1917)
| birth_name         = Lillian Agnes Cook
| birth_date         = May 16, 1898
| birth_place        = Hot Springs, Arkansas, US
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1918|3|14|1898|5|16}}
| death_place        = New York City, US
| resting_place      = [Spring Grove Cemetery](/source/Spring_Grove_Cemetery)
| family             = 
}}

'''Lillian Cook''' was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era.

== Biography ==
Cook was born in [Hot Springs, Arkansas](/source/Hot_Springs%2C_Arkansas), to Joseph Cook and his wife Martha.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=14 Feb 1917|title=Clara Kimball Young in 'The Common Law'|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/287976449/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=Hot Springs New Era|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=saMbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22lillian+cook%22+actress&pg=PA637|title=The Moving Picture World|date=1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref> An only child, she grew up primarily in Cincinnati before she moved to New York to pursue a career on the stage.<ref name=":0" />

Cook died in her Manhattan apartment at the Hotel Remington at age 19 after appearing in dozens of silent films.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2 Apr 1918|title=Film Favorite Facts|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/616679475/?terms=%22lillian%2Bcook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=The Sacramento Bee|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=18 Jul 1918|title=The Cinema Girl's Chats of the Films|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/253311169/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=Press and Sun-Bulletin|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=20 Mar 1918|title=Lillian Cook Dies|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/291852146/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=News-Journal|language=en}}</ref> Her early death may have been caused by her role as a fairy in [Maurice Tourneur](/source/Maurice_Tourneur)'s ''[The Blue Bird](/source/The_Blue_Bird_(1918_film))'' a year earlier: according to one account, the heavy wings that were part of her costume injured her spine and caused tuberculosis.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=24 Mar 1918|title=The Silent Drama|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/34201484/?terms=%22lillian+cook%22|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-09-10|website=The Cincinnati Enquirer|language=en}}</ref>

== Selected filmography ==

* ''[The Blue Bird](/source/The_Blue_Bird_(1918_film))'' (1918)
* ''The Devil's Playground'' (1917)
* ''[The Honeymoon](/source/The_Honeymoon)'' (1917)
* ''[Her Hour](/source/Her_Hour)'' (1917)
* ''[The Corner Grocer](/source/The_Corner_Grocer)'' (1917)
* ''[Betsy Ross](/source/Betsy_Ross_(film))'' (1917)
* ''[Rasputin, the Black Monk](/source/Rasputin%2C_the_Black_Monk)'' (1917)
* ''[Beloved Adventuress](/source/The_Beloved_Adventuress)'' (1917)
* ''[The Submarine Eye](/source/The_Submarine_Eye)'' (1917)
* ''[Darkest Russia](/source/Darkest_Russia)'' (1917)
* ''[The Common Law](/source/The_Common_Law_(1916_film))'' (1916)
* ''[Sudden Riches](/source/Sudden_Riches)'' (1916)
* ''[As in a Looking Glass](/source/As_in_a_Looking_Glass)'' (1916)
* ''[A Woman's Power](/source/A_Woman's_Power)'' (1916)
* ''[Camille](/source/Camille_(1915_film))'' (1915)
* ''[The Cotton King](/source/The_Cotton_King)'' (1915)
* ''[Mother](/source/Mother_(1914_film))'' (1914)

== References ==
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