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Based in Los Angeles from an early age, Tommy Cook was a busy child actor on radio during the 1940s, playing such roles as Little Beaver on the Western series Red Ryder. In films since 1942's The Tuttles of Tahiti, Cook was briefly placed under contract by Columbia. In his late teen years, he signed with 20th Century Fox, playing substantial roles in films like An American Guerilla in the Philippines (1950) and Panic in the Streets (1950). Drifting out of acting in the mid-'50s, Tommy Cook went on to become a professional tennis player and traveling-show entrepreneur.