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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 15, 1922
Died
May 3, 2011
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- John Cooper Jr.
- Джеки Купер
- Джекки Купер
Jackie Cooper
0.6 Popularity
Biography
Jackie Cooper (September 15, 1922 –May 3, 2011) was an American actor. He is best known for his role of Perry White in the Christopher Reeves Superman films (1978–1987). He with the Navy in the South Pacific toward the end of World War II and then, quietly and without publicity or fanfare, compiled one of the most distinguished peacetime military careers of anyone in his profession. In 1961, as his weekly TV series Hennesey (1959) was enhancing naval recruiting efforts, accepted a commission as a line officer in the Naval Reserve with duties in recruitment, training films, and public relations. Holder of a multi-engine pilot license, he later co-piloted jet planes for the Navy, which made him an Honorary Aviator authorized to wear wings of gold-at the time only the third so honored in naval aviation history. By 1976 he had attained the rank of captain, and was in uniform aboard the carrier USS Constellation for the Bicentennial celebration on July 4. In 1980, the Navy proposed a period of active duty at the Pentagon that would have resulted in a promotion to rear admiral, bringing him even with Air Force Reserve Brigadier General James Stewart. Fresh on the heels of a second directing Emmy, he felt his absence would impact achieving a long-held goal of directing motion pictures, and reluctantly declined. (The opportunity in films never materialized.) Holds Letters of Commendation from six secretaries of the Navy. Was honorary chairman of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation and a charter member of VIVA, the effort to return POW-MIAs from Vietnam. Upon retirement in 1982, he was decorated with the Legion of Merit by Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr.. Other than Stewart, no performer in his industry has achieved a higher uniformed rank in the U.S. military. (Glenn Ford was also a Naval Reserve captain, and director and Captain John Ford was awarded honorary flag rank upon his 1951 retirement from the Naval Reserve).
Known For
0.0
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1
2021
6.0
Self
You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman
2006
7.4
Perry White
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006
7.5
Self
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
2006
7.5
Self - Actor (voice)
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
7.3
Self
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
2001
7.0
Self
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
2000
10.0
Self (archive footage)
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
6.0
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
7.8
Self
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Credits
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1
2021
0.0
You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman
as Self
2006
6.0
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
as Perry White
2006
7.4
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
as Self
2006
7.5
Judy Garland: By Myself
as Self - Actor (voice)
2004
7.5
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
as Self
2001
7.3
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
as Self
2000
7.0
Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1997
10.0
Inside the Dream Factory
1995
6.0
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
as Self
1995
7.8
The Our Gang Story
as Jackie (archive footage)
1994
0.0
Capital News
as John C. Dodd
1990
6.0
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
as Self
1989
0.0
Surrender
as Ace Morgan
1987
4.9
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Perry White
1987
4.6
Classic Comedy Teams
as Our Gang(archive footage)
1986
0.0
The Making of 'Superman III'
as Self
1985
6.7
Murder, She Wrote
as Carl Schulman / Neil Fletcher
1984
7.5
🎬
Ticket to Hollywood
as Narrator
1984
0.0
🎬
No Earthly Reason
as J. Nash Hawkins
1984
0.0
The Making of 'Superman II'
as Self
1983
7.6
Superman III
as Perry White
1983
5.5
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
6.5
St. Elsewhere
as David Domedion
1982
5.6
Hollywood’s Children
as Self (archive footage)
1982
0.0
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
as Self
1982
6.4
Rascal Dazzle
as Jackie (archive footage)
1981
7.0
Superman II
as Perry White
1980
6.7
Superman
as Perry White
1978
7.2
Hooray for Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
1976
0.0
Mobile One
as Peter Campbell
1975
5.0
Mobile Two
as Peter Campbell
1975
0.0
Journey into Fear
as Eric Hurst
1975
5.6
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
The Invisible Man
as Walter Carlson
1975
8.3
The Day the Earth Moved
as Steve Barker
1974
6.3
The Rockford Files
as Capt. Highland
1974
7.6
The Rockford Files
as Garth McGregor
1974
7.6
🎬
The Dean Martin Comedy World
as Host
1974
0.0
Chosen Survivors
as Raymond Couzins
1974
5.6
Kojak
as Frank Mulvaney
1973
7.0
Big John Morrison
as John Morrison
1973
0.0
Police Story
1973
6.9
Ghost Story
as Dumpy Doyle
1972
7.1
Hec Ramsey
1972
6.8
Stand Up and Be Counted
as Doctor
1972
7.0
The Astronaut
as Kurt Anderson
1972
5.7
Columbo
as Nelson Hayward
1971
8.1
🎬
Mantrap
1971
0.0
The Love Machine
as Danton Miller
1971
4.3
🎬
It Was a Very Good Year
1971
0.0
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
as Ed Miller
1971
5.7
McCloud
1970
7.1
Shadow on the Land
as Lt. Col. Andy Davis
1968
8.0
Hawaii Five-O
as Dr. Alexander Southmore
1968
7.1
Ironside
1967
6.8
The F.B.I.
as Harlan Slade
1965
5.4
Calhoun
as Everett Calhoun
1964
6.0
The Great Adventure
as Lt. Dickson
1963
0.0
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
as Self
1962
7.0
Everything's Ducky
as Lt. J.S. Parmell - Psychiatrist
1961
5.3
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
🎬
The Gertrude Berg Show
1961
9.0
The Dick Powell Show
as Judd Rogers
1961
5.5
The Dick Powell Show
as John Reardon
1961
5.5
The Dick Powell Show
as Self - Host
1961
5.5
The Twilight Zone
as Jonathan West / Caesar (voice)
1959
8.5
Hennesey
as Lt. Charles 'Chick' Hennesey, MD
1959
6.0
🎬
Pursuit
1958
0.0
🎬
To Tell the Truth
1956
7.4
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
as Self
1956
6.0
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Guest
1956
5.6
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Singer
1956
5.6
Telephone Time
1956
6.3
The People's Choice
as Socrates 'Sock' Miller
1955
5.5
MGM Parade
as Dink in 'The Champ' (archive footage)
1955
0.0
🎬
Producers' Showcase
1954
6.5
🎬
The Elgin Hour
1954
7.0
🎬
The George Gobel Show
as Self
1954
7.3
🎬
Justice
1954
0.0
The Motorola Television Hour
1953
0.0
The United States Steel Hour
1953
6.2
Medallion Theatre
1953
0.0
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
0.0
General Electric Theater
as Jeremy Bates
1953
6.4
Cowboy G-Men
1952
5.3
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Bob Heywood
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Bill Harlow / Joe Toyah
1951
7.2
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
6.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Orrin Dudley
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Dave Carter
1950
6.3
🎬
Danger
1950
8.0
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
🎬
Starlight Theatre
1950
0.0
Your Show of Shows
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Peter Graves
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Pvt. Oscar Purkey
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Milton 'Mezz' Mezzrow
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Maurice Gaines
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Willy Benton
1950
5.6
🎬
The Clock
1949
0.0
Suspense
as Williams
1949
4.9
Suspense
as Murderer
1949
4.9
Suspense
as Dan Crowley
1949
4.9
Studio One
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Dave Tuttle
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Blackie Scantling
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Bubbo
1948
6.3
🎬
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre
1948
6.0
🎬
Texaco Star Theater
1948
7.4
French Leave
as Skitch Kilroy
1948
0.0
Kilroy Was Here
as John J. Kilroy
1947
5.0
Stork Bites Man
as Ernest (Ernie) C. Brown
1947
0.0
Where Are Your Children?
as Danny Cheston
1943
4.0
The Navy Comes Through
as Joe 'Babe' Duttson
1942
5.6
Men of Texas
as Robert Houston Scott
1942
0.0
Syncopation
as Johnny Schumacher
1942
6.2
🎬
Soaring Stars
as Pilot
1942
0.0
Glamour Boy
as Tiny Barlow
1941
6.0
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
as Self
1941
0.0
Her First Beau
as Chuck Harris
1941
5.0
Ziegfeld Girl
as Jerry Regan
1941
6.5
Life with Henry
as Henry Aldrich
1941
5.0
Gallant Sons
as Byron Newbold
1940
7.2
Rodeo Dough
as Jackie Cooper
1940
5.3
The Return of Frank James
as Clem
1940
6.3
Seventeen
as William Sylvanus Baxter
1940
0.0
The Big Guy
as Jimmy Hutchins
1939
0.0
Hollywood Cavalcade
as Burglar
1939
5.3
What a Life
as Henry Aldrich
1939
0.0
Two Bright Boys
as Rory O'Donnell
1939
0.0
Streets of New York
as James Michael 'Jimmy' Keenan
1939
4.8
The Spirit of Culver
as Tom Allen
1939
0.0
Scouts to the Rescue
as Bruce Scott
1939
0.0
Newsboys' Home
as Rifle Edwards
1938
6.0
Gangster's Boy
as Larry Kelly
1938
0.0
That Certain Age
as Kenneth Warren
1938
5.1
White Banners
as Peter Trimble
1938
5.8
Bear Facts
as Bear
1938
6.8
Boy of the Streets
as Chuck Brennan
1938
5.0
The Devil Is a Sissy
as 'Buck' Murphy
1936
6.9
Tough Guy
as Frederick Martindale Vincent III
1936
4.3
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
as Joseph "Stubby" O'Shaughnessy
1935
6.0
Dinky
as Dinky Daniels
1935
6.7
Peck's Bad Boy
as Bill Peck
1934
5.7
Treasure Island
as Jim Hawkins
1934
6.5
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934
6.0
Lone Cowboy
as Scooter O'Neal
1933
2.7
The Bowery
as Swipes McGurk
1933
5.0
Broadway to Hollywood
as Ted Hackett Jr. as Child
1933
4.6
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
1932
0.0
Divorce In The Family
as Terry Parker
1932
6.0
When a Feller Needs a Friend
as Edward Haverford 'Eddie' Randall
1932
2.0
Sooky
as Skippy
1931
1.0
The Christmas Party
as Himself
1931
4.9
The Champ
as Dink Purcell
1931
7.1
Young Donovan's Kid
as Midge Murray
1931
0.0
Bargain Day
as Jackie
1931
6.0
Skippy
as Skippy Skinner
1931
6.0
Little Daddy
as Jackie
1931
6.9
Love Business
as Jackie Cooper
1931
6.9
Helping Grandma
as Jackie
1931
6.7
🎬
Temps d'Hiver
as Jackie
1930
0.0
School's Out
as Jackie Cooper
1930
6.8
🎬
Los cazadores de osos
as Juanito
1930
0.0
Teacher's Pet
as Jackie
1930
6.6
Pups Is Pups
as Jackie
1930
6.2
A Tough Winter
as Jackie
1930
5.4
Bear Shooters
as Jackie
1930
5.3
🎬
The Ghosts
as Juanito
1930
0.0
When the Wind Blows
as Jackie
1930
6.1
The First Seven Years
as Jackie
1930
5.2
Shivering Shakespeare
as Jackie
1930
5.7
Sunny Side Up
as Jerry McGinnis (uncredited)
1929
6.8
Moan & Groan, Inc.
as Jackie
1929
5.5
Bouncing Babies
as Kid listening to Farina (uncredited)
1929
6.1
Boxing Gloves
as Jackie
1929
6.0
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
as Little Boy in 'That's You, Baby' Number (uncredited)
1929
3.0
Superman Redeemed
as Perry White
N/A
0.0