Ira Cook

Actor

Date of birth : 08/17/1916

Date of death : 05/15/2007

City of birth : Duluth, Minnesota, USA

Composer, actor and Hollywood disc jockey, educated at Stanford University. His Los Angeles broadcasting career spanned 26 years, sixteen of which were at KMPC. He served in the US Army during World War II, and broadcast over the Armed Forces Radio Service from 1961. He joined ASCAP in 1958, and collaborated musically with Mort Greene and Ray Gilbert. His popular-song compositions include "Pony Tail", "Sunday Barbeque", and "Your Theme".