Actor
Steve Cochran
Biography

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 of a California lumberjack, who moved the family to Wyoming in the 1920s, where Cochran grew to adulthood. After graduating from the University of Wyoming in 1939, Cochran began working steadily as a Wyoming cowboy, while developing his acting skills working in summer stock and regional theaters and ...

Known For
Acting
2007 -- Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains | Self
1965 -- Tell Me In The Sunlight | Dave
1964 -- Mozambique | Brad Webster
1963 -- Of Love and Desire | Steve Corey
1961 -- The Deadly Companions | Billy Keplinger
1959 -- The Big Operator | Bill Gibson
1959 -- The Beat Generation | Dave Culloran
1959 -- I, Mobster | Joe Sante
1958 -- Quantrill's Raiders | Captain Alan 'Wes' Westcott
1957 -- Il Grido | Aldo
1957 -- Slander | H.R. Manley
1956 -- The Weapon | Mark Andrews
1956 -- Come Next Spring | Matt Ballot
1956 -- Fremont: The Trailblazer | John C. Fremont
1954 -- Private Hell 36 | Police Sgt. Cal Bruner
1954 -- Carnival Story | Joe Hammond
1953 -- Shark River | Dan Webley
1953 -- Back to God's Country | Paul Blake
1953 -- The Desert Song | Captain Claude Fontaine
1953 -- She's Back on Broadway | Rick Sommers
1952 -- Operation Secret | Marcel Brevoort
1952 -- The Lion and the Horse | Ben Kirby
1951 -- The Tanks Are Coming | Francis Aloysius 'Sully' Sullivan
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
1950 -- Dallas | Bryant Marlow
1950 -- Highway 301 | George Legenza
1950 -- The Damned Don't Cry | Nick Prenta
1949 -- White Heat | 'Big Ed' Somers
1948 -- A Song Is Born | Tony Crow
1947 -- Copacabana | Steve Hunt
1946 -- The Best Years of Our Lives | Cliff Scully
1946 -- The Chase | Eddie Roman
1946 -- The Kid from Brooklyn | Speed McFarlane
1945 -- 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
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