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Chuck Cooper is a Actor American born on 8 november 1954 at Cleveland (USA)
This article is about the African-American actor. For the late pioneering African-American NBA basketball player, see Chuck Cooper (basketball).
Chuck Cooper (born November 8, 1954) is an American actor.
Cooper made his Broadway debut in 1983 in the musical Amen Corner, playing the role of "Brother Boxer". He was an understudy in the original Broadway casts of his next three shows: Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (he eventually took over the role of "Adam"), Passion and Getting Away with Murder. In 1997, his next show The Life opened on Broadway. Cooper won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his role of the pimp "Memphis".
Cooper has also appeared in Chicago as "Billy Flynn", Caroline, or Change as the dual role of "The Bus" and "The Dryer", and Finian's Rainbow as "Bill Rawkins", as well as benefit performances of Hair and A Wonderful Life. He performed also in the role of soloist at the US Premiere of the "Seven Scenes from Hamlet" by the Spanish composer Benet Casablancas at the Miller Theatre New York on February 25th, 2010 (Perspectives Ensemble, cond. Angel Gil-Ordóñez).
In 2015, Cooper began a Broadway run as "Thomas" in the new musical Amazing Grace at the Nederlander Theatre.
Cooper's daughter, Lilli, is also an actress. She recently made her Broadway debut in the musical Spring Awakening and is currently performing on the second National Tour of Wicked.
Deborah Brevoort, a playwright, married Cooper, on Saturday, May 30, 2009 in Carmel, New York. Their initial meeting and eventual engagement were covered in a New York Times website video.
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Chuck Cooper (born November 8, 1954) is an American actor.
Cooper made his Broadway debut in 1983 in the musical Amen Corner, playing the role of "Brother Boxer". He was an understudy in the original Broadway casts of his next three shows: Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (he eventually took over the role of "Adam"), Passion and Getting Away with Murder. In 1997, his next show The Life opened on Broadway. Cooper won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his role of the pimp "Memphis".
Cooper has also appeared in Chicago as "Billy Flynn", Caroline, or Change as the dual role of "The Bus" and "The Dryer", and Finian's Rainbow as "Bill Rawkins", as well as benefit performances of Hair and A Wonderful Life. He performed also in the role of soloist at the US Premiere of the "Seven Scenes from Hamlet" by the Spanish composer Benet Casablancas at the Miller Theatre New York on February 25th, 2010 (Perspectives Ensemble, cond. Angel Gil-Ordóñez).
In 2015, Cooper began a Broadway run as "Thomas" in the new musical Amazing Grace at the Nederlander Theatre.
Cooper's daughter, Lilli, is also an actress. She recently made her Broadway debut in the musical Spring Awakening and is currently performing on the second National Tour of Wicked.
Deborah Brevoort, a playwright, married Cooper, on Saturday, May 30, 2009 in Carmel, New York. Their initial meeting and eventual engagement were covered in a New York Times website video.
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, 1h37Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Politique, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Christopher Plummer, Danny Glover, Frank Langella, Ed Begley Jr., Barry Levinson, Pablo Schreiber
Roles Chauncey Eskridge
Rating66%
Le procès pour objection de conscience du boxeur Mohamed Ali jusqu'à la Cour suprême.
Boy Wonder (2010)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about domestic violence
Actors Bill Sage, Tracy Middendorf, Zulay Henao, Chuck Cooper, James Russo, John Sharian
Roles Bill Baldwin
Rating67%
A young boy named Sean Donovan lives with his mother and abusive alcoholic father. A carjacker attacks his family one night, which results in his mother's murder. Afterward, his father Terry moves them to a nicer neighborhood.
American Gangster (2007)
, 2h37Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Mob film, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about racism, Hip hop films, Political films, Gangster films
Actors Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Ted Levine, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, RZA
Roles Private Doctor
Rating77%
In 1968, Frank Lucas, the limo driver-turned-right-hand man of Harlem gangster Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, inherits Johnson's gang when Johnson dies of a heart attack. Disliking the new, flashy gangsters of the neighborhood, Lucas decides to take control of Harlem's crime scene.
Chapter 27 (2007)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Chuck Cooper
Roles Cabbie
Rating55%
On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering 40-year-old musician and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman's motives were fabricated from pure delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional character Holden Caulfield and his similar misadventures in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. In one instant, an anonymous, socially awkward and mentally unstable 25-year-old fan of The Beatles, who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and being overcome with a desire to kill him, altered the course of the history of music.
Evening (2007)
Directed by Lajos Koltai
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Wilson, Hugh Dancy
Roles Ray
Rating63%
The film alternates between two time periods, the 1950s and the present, in which a dying Ann Grant Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) reflects on her past. Her confusing comments about people she never mentioned before leave her daughters, reserved Constance (Natasha Richardson) and restless Nina (Toni Collette), wondering if their mother is delusional.
Noise (2007)
, 1h28Directed by Henry Bean
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Tim Robbins, Bridget Moynahan, William Hurt, Margarita Levieva, William Baldwin, María Ballesteros
Roles Judge Gibson
Rating60%
David Owen, a New York lawyer, is constantly plagued by noise, particularly car alarms, but also burglar alarms and backup beepers. Despite putting up with the noise for years, including the formative years of his daughter, he finally breaks into a car to shut off its alarm, and is arrested by police. Owen and his family move to the countryside, but it only replaces one set of noise problems with another. Despite attempting to legally deal with the constant barrage of noise, he makes no progress, and continues to resort to vandalism, resulting in higher and higher court penalties and straining his relationship with his wife, who finally asks him to leave.
Find Me Guilty (2006)
, 2h5Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Richard Portnow, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra
Roles James Washington
Rating69%
It's the late 1980s and low-level mobster Jackie DiNorscio (Vin Diesel) has just been shot by his junkie cousin Tony Compagna (Raúl Esparza), but refuses to press charges against him to police. Jackie soon gets arrested and is sentenced to thirty years on an unrelated drug bust.
A Crime (2006)
, 1h40Directed by Manuel Pradal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors Emmanuelle Béart, Harvey Keitel, Norman Reedus, Joe Grifasi, Lily Rabe, Kimberly Ann Director
Roles Will
Rating56%
In the evening, while returning to his place, Vincent (Reedus) crosses a taxi coming from his house. When he arrives, it is too late: his wife was brutally murdered. Three years later, Vincent moves to New York, and his neighbor, Alice (Béart), is frantically in love with him, but having been always distressed and obsessed to discover the assassin of his woman, he himself does not recognize any feeling at least. To make Vincent be free to open his heart to her, Alice is willing to find the man responsible for his wife's death. When Alice hails a cab driven by lonely New Yorker Roger (Keitel), her elaborated plan is slowly set into motion in spite of the ignorance of both men.
Downtown: A Street Tale (2004)
Genres Drama
Actors Joey Dedio, Geneviève Bujold, Lillo Brancato, John Savage, Burt Young, Chad Allen
Roles Sergeant Williams
Rating59%
Three Days of Rain (2002)
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Falk, Alimi Ballard, Erick Avari, Robert Carradine, Mark Feuerstein, Heather Kafka
Roles Jim
Rating54%
Three Days of Rain is a film from 2002 that takes six short stories of Anton Chekov and sets them in modern-day Cleveland, Ohio. The film opens as a storm rolls into Cleveland that will bring rain for three straight days. The film follows six separate people through their unique struggles and challenges. There is a young women who is forced to give up her daughter and is willing to do anything to be with her. Another character is a cab driver who struggles to cope with the loss of his son. There is Thunder (Michael Santoro), who is a tile maker who is fighting to keep his business from going under, and Denis (Joey Billow), a mentally handicapped Janitor who is faced with losing his job. Through the entire film there is soft jazz and the banter of a local Cleveland disk jockey, the jazz also doubles as the film's soundtrack.
The Opportunists (2000)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Mob film, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Christopher Walken, Peter McDonald, Kate Burton, Donal Logue, Anne Pitoniak, Vera Farmiga
Roles Arnon Morris
Rating57%
The film's protagonist is Victor "Vic" Kelly (Christopher Walken), a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. When a supposed cousin from Ireland visits Vic, the alleged cousin sabotages one of Vic's auto repair jobs, to ensure Vic's desperation and participation in the robbery scheme introduced to Vic by neighborhood resident Pat (Donal Logue).
Our Song (2000)
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Kerry Washington, Melissa Martínez, Anna Simpson, Chuck Cooper, Marlene Forte
Roles Benjamin
Rating67%
Our Song follows three high school girls over one summer in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The girls, Lanisha (Kerry Washington), Maria (Melissa Martinez), and Joycelyn (Anna Simpson) are best friends and confidants. They have different family situations, different romantic interests, different moral codes and their own unique dreams.
The Hurricane (1999)
, 2h25Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Prison films, Films about racism, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Films about capital punishment, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, Dan Hedaya
Roles Earl Martin
Rating75%
The film tells the story of middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, whose conviction for a Paterson, New Jersey triple murder was set aside after he had spent nearly 20 years in prison. Narrating Carter's life, the film concentrates on the period between 1966 and 1985. It describes his fight against the conviction for triple murder and how he copes with nearly twenty years in prison.
Gloria (1999)
, 1h49Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Actors Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, Cathy Moriarty, George C. Scott, Bonnie Bedelia, Mike Starr
Roles Male Guard
Rating51%
Gloria (Sharon Stone), has just gotten out of prison, where she has served three years to save her boyfriend, Kevin (Jeremy Northam). During her stay in prison, she thinks about how Kevin never once visited her. She goes to Kevin and tells him that the relationship is over and that all she wants is the money he promised her for taking the rap for him. He refuses to give it to her.
The Peacemaker (1997)
, 2h4Directed by Mimi Leder
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Political films, Road movies, Chase films, Arme nucléaire
Actors George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iureș, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sebastian Roché, Tamara Tunie
Roles NYPD Cop
Rating60%
In an Eastern Orthodox church in Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an unidentified man (later revealed to be a Bosnian minister) is murdered after being paged to meet someone outside.(The murderer called him "minister").