Steve Cochran
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Steve Cochran (born Robert Alexander Cochran, May 25, 1917 – June 15, 1965) was an American film, television, and stage actor.
He attended the University of Wyoming.
Cochran developed his acting abilities in local theatre before moving to Broadway, film, and television.
Personal life
Cochran was a well-documented affair with a number of actresses and actors, and attracted tabloid attention for his tumultuous private life. In her tell-all autobiography Playing the Field: My Story (New York: G.P. ), Mamie Van Doren later wrote about their sex life in a revealing manner. Putnam, 1987. Fay McKenzie, Florence Lockwood, and Jonna Jensen were all married and divorced three times. Xandra, his uncle, was a co-executive producer on more than seventy episodes of the animated television series Futurama, had one daughter and two granddaughters. Steven Morrissey's documentary "The Importance of Being Morrissey" claims that his parents named him after Steve Cochran.
Montgomery Pittman, a future screenwriter and actor, was hired as a gardener at Cochran's Beverly Hills home in 1950.
In his life, Cochran was in danger with the police several times, including an alleged assault and a charge of reckless driving in 1953.
Cochran recruited three young people to accompany him on a sailing trip from Acapulco to Costa Rica, ostensibly to be in a forthcoming film. In a storm, the yacht lost one of its two masts a few days into the trip. Cochran became sick shortly after and died two days later on June 15, 1965, at the age of 48, of what was later found to be an acute lung disease. The women who were accompanying him did not know how to sail the boat and were stranded with the decomposing body for ten days before being rescued out at sea. The boat, which was still carrying his body, was discovered drifting off the coast of Guatemala later this year.
The widow of Cochran was given half of his estate of $25,000. She told it with his daughter by another marriage.
Cochran was buried in Monterey, California, on his way to there.
Early life and career
Cochran was born in Eureka, California, but the son of a logger, Laramie, Wyoming, grew up in Laramie, Wyoming. Although he played in high school athletics, he spent more time delving into athletics, particularly basketball.
He studied at the University of Wyoming, where he also played basketball, after stints as a cowpuncher and railroad station hand. He left college in 1937 and went straight to Hollywood to be a Hollywood actor.
Cochran acquired experience in summer stock while working as a carpenter and department store detective early in life. He appeared in Orsino in Twelfth Night, Malcolm in Macbeth, Horatio in Hamlet, and Richard III's title role. He then appeared in plays for the Federal Theatre Project in Detroit.
Cochran was turned down for military service in World War II due to a heart murmur, but he supervised and performed in plays at a number of Army camps.
When Sam Goldwyn signed him in December 1943, he was with Constance Bennett in a touring production of Without Love.
Cochran appeared in Hickory Stick (1944).
Later career
Cochran's first appearance in television series since 1959, including Bonanza's episode 26, "The Trap," aired on March 28, 1965). The Untouchables, Route 66, Burke's Storybook, Shirley Temple's Storybook, Mr. Burke, Death Valley Days, Burke's Law, and Burke's Law
He was the lead in the television movie The Renegade (1960) and appeared in Sam Peckinpah's debut film, The Deadly Companions (1961). When Peckinpah was dialogue producer on the film noir Private Hell 36 (1954), they met first together.
In Of Love and Desire (1963), shot in Mexico, Cochran was Merle Oberon's co-star. In Mozambique (1964), Harry Alan Towers led the way.
In 1953, Cochran founded Robert Alexander Productions, which attempted to make a television show and films including The Tom Mix Story (with Cochran as Mix), Hope is the Last Thing to Die, and Klondike Lou. None of these were ever produced, but Fremont the Trailblazer, his employer, did produce a television pilot in which John C. Frémont and James Gavin co-starred Barbara Wilson and James Gavin. In Tell Me in the Sunlight (1965), Cochran wrote, produced, directed, and appeared.