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George Cooper is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 11 december 1892 at Newark (USA)

George Cooper

George Cooper
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Nationality USA
Birth 11 december 1892 at Newark (USA)
Death 9 december 1943 (at 50 years)

George Cooper (December 12, 1892 – December 9, 1943) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared on stage first, then in 210 films between 1911 and 1940. He was born in Newark, New Jersey and died in Sawtelle, California.

His son George Cooper Jr (1920-2015) was also an actor, who acted in movies from 1947 till 1954.

Biography

Acteur de second rôle (ou tenant des petits rôles non crédités) au cinéma, George Cooper débute dans une série de courts métrages, les trois premiers sortis dès 1911 ; certains sont réalisés par Allan Dwan, dont The Tragedy of Whispering Creek (1914, avec Murdock MacQuarrie et Pauline Bush).

Parmi ses films muets notables, citons The Nth Commandment de Frank Borzage (1923, avec Colleen Moore et James W. Morrison), Le Cargo infernal de Victor Fleming (1925, avec Wallace Beery et Pauline Starke), Rose-Marie de Lucien Hubbard (1928, avec Joan Crawford et James Murray) et La Piste de 98 de Clarence Brown (1928, avec Dolores del Río et Ralph Forbes).

Après le passage au parlant, mentionnons Paid de Sam Wood (1930, avec Joan Crawford et Robert Armstrong), La Pécheresse d'Harry Beaumont (1931, avec Joan Crawford et Clark Gable), La Course de Broadway Bill (1934, avec Warner Baxter et Myrna Loy) et L'Extravagant Mr. Deeds (1936, avec Gary Cooper et Jean Arthur), ces deux derniers réalisés par Frank Capra.

Le dernier de ses deux-cent-dix-sept films américains sort en 1940. Il meurt prématurément en décembre 1943, trois jours avant son 51e anniversaire.

Best films

The Barker (1928)
(Actor)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of George Cooper (92 films)

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Actor

The Steel Cage, 1h20
Directed by Walter Doniger
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Paul Kelly, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Slezak, John Ireland, Lawrence Tierney, Arthur Franz
Roles Charlie Rivers
Rating62% 3.1293853.1293853.1293853.1293853.129385
This script must be run from the command line
Mystery Street, 1h33
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Ricardo Montalbán, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling
Roles Reporter (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.5940853.5940853.5940853.5940853.594085
Blonde B-girl Vivian (played by Jan Sterling), is pregnant and tries to contact the father to seek help financially. He refuses to meet and stops taking her calls. She goes to "The Grass Skirt" bar in Boston where she works and picks up a drunk (Marshall Thompson) so she can use his car to drive to Cape Cod, where she can confront the father face to face.
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome, 1h5
Directed by John Rawlins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, Skelton Knaggs, June Clayworth, Edward Ashley-Cooper
Roles Stone (Bank Teller) (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.046053.046053.046053.046053.04605
Just out of jail, Gruesome goes to the Hangman's Knot saloon, where his old crime crony Melody is now playing piano. Gruesome takes him to a plastics manufacturer, where X-Ray and a mysterious mastermind are in possession of a secret formula and hatching a sinister plot.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 2h9
Directed by Frank Capra, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Politique, Scoutisme, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Charles Lane, Thomas Mitchell
Roles Waiter (uncredited)
Rating80% 4.0494.0494.0494.0494.049
The governor of an unnamed western state, Hubert "Happy" Hopper (Guy Kibbee), has to pick a replacement for recently deceased U.S. Senator Sam Foley. His corrupt political boss, Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold), pressures Hopper to choose his handpicked stooge, while popular committees want a reformer, Henry Hill. The governor's children want him to select Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), the head of the Boy Rangers. Unable to make up his mind between Taylor's stooge and the reformer, Hopper decides to flip a coin. When it lands on edge – and next to a newspaper story on one of Smith's accomplishments – he chooses Smith, calculating that his wholesome image will please the people while his naïveté will make him easy to manipulate.
Blackmail
Blackmail (1939)
, 1h21
Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart, Bobs Watson, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, John Wray
Roles Released Prisoner Hawley (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.3444153.3444153.3444153.3444153.344415
John Ingram is a very successful oil-field firefighter and a family man. All is going so well, he's even bought his own oil well in hope of striking it rich. His greatest fears are realized, however, when a man, William Ramey, from his secret past sees Ingram in a newsreel and shows up looking for a job.
Lucky Night, 1h22
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Robert Taylor, Myrna Loy, Henry O'Neill, Douglas Fowley, Bernard Nedell, Charles Lane
Roles $50 Passerby (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.050483.050483.050483.050483.05048
Two people meet in a park (Cora, played by Myrna Loy, and William "Bill" Overton, played by Robert Taylor). They become acquainted and each discovers that the other is also poor. They try to get 50 cents to eat at a restaurant but a man complains to the police. They convince a policeman to give them 50 cents by saying that they are engaged (which they are not).
Boys Town
Boys Town (1938)
, 1h36
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Darryl Hickman, Gene Reynolds
Roles Tramp (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.595543.595543.595543.595543.59554
The story opens when a convicted murderer asks to make his confession on the day of his execution. The condemned man is visited by an old friend, Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) who runs a home for indigent men in Omaha, Nebraska. When the prison officials suggest that the condemned man owes the state a debt, Father Flanagan witnesses the condemned man's diatribe to prison officials and a reporter that describes his awful plight as a homeless and friendless boy who was a ward in state institutions. After the convicted man asks the officials to leave, Father Flanagan provides some comfort and wisdom. On the train back to Omaha, Father Flanagan is transformed in his humanitarian mission by revelations (echoed in the words) imparted by the condemned man's litany of hardships experienced as a child without friends or family as a ward of the state.
The Chaser
The Chaser (1938)

Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Lewis Stone, Lana Turner, Jack Mulhall, Nat Pendleton, John Qualen
Roles Man at Calhoun's Auto
Rating58% 2.9092852.9092852.9092852.9092852.909285
Sweethearts, 1h54
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Mischa Auer, Florence Rice
Roles Un électricien
Rating61% 3.096193.096193.096193.096193.09619
Broadway stars Gwen Marlow (Jeanette MacDonald) and Ernest Lane (Nelson Eddy) are appearing in a 6-year run of Victor Herbert's operetta Sweethearts (Ray Bolger dances the role of Hans). They are also very much in love after six years of marriage. Norman Trumpett (Reginald Gardiner) is a successful Hollywood talent scout under pressure to recruit Marlow and Lane for his studio, which their Broadway producer Felix Lehman (Frank Morgan) is equally determined to prevent.
The Man Who Found Himself, 1h7
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors John Beal, Joan Fontaine, George Irving, Jimmy Conlin, Frank M. Thomas, Diana Gibson
Roles Hobo
Rating60% 3.0011853.0011853.0011853.0011853.001185
Young doctor, Jim Stanton (John Beal) has two passionate interests in conflict with each other. He is first a conscientious surgeon, but in his spare time, pursues his love of flying, a dangerous hobby that his well-intentioned father abhors. His father is a well-regarded doctor who does his best to curtail his son's flying.
Think Fast, Mr. Moto, 1h6
Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Peter Lorre, Thomas Beck, Virginia Field, Lee Phelps, Sig Ruman, Murray Kinnell
Roles Muggs Blake
Rating66% 3.341643.341643.341643.341643.34164
The film opens with Mr. Moto in disguise as a street salesmen and selling goods to passers-by. He sees a man leaving a shop with a tattoo of the British Flag on his arm. Moto enters the shop to sell a rare diamond to the owner. However, Moto sees a body stuffed into a wicker basket in the store, and using his mastery of judo takes down the shopkeeper. Later, he reserves a berth on a freighter headed for Shanghai. Also on the freighter is Bob Hitchings Jr., son of the owner of the freighter. Before leaving, Hitchings Sr. gives his son a confidential letter for the head of the Shanghai branch of the company. Hitchings and Moto become friends (Moto notices the letter), and Moto helps Hitchings cure a hangover. Hitchings complains to Moto that he has not met any beautiful women on board. After a stop in Honolulu, a beautiful woman named Gloria Danton boards the ship, and she and Hitchings fall in love. But Gloria is a spy for Nicolas Marloff, who runs a smuggling operation out of Shanghai. She periodically sends him notes and leaves without saying goodbye to Hitchings. Moto finds a steward looking for Hitchings’s letter, and confronts him, knowing he was the person who killed the man in the wicker basket, as he wears the tattoo. Moto throws the man overboard and takes the letter.
Portia on Trial, 1h12
Directed by George Nichols Jr., George Nicholls, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Heather Angel, Neil Hamilton, Walter Abel, Frieda Inescort, Ruth Donnelly, Barbara Pepper
Roles Efe
Rating58% 2.91332.91332.91332.91332.9133
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton).