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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 19, 1921
Died
April 15, 1984
Place of Birth
Caerphilly, South Wales
Also Known As
- Thomas Frederick Cooper
Tommy Cooper
0.1 Popularity
Biography
Born in Caerphilly, South Wales, at 19 Llwyn Onn Street, Trecenydd, Cooper was delivered by the woman who owned the house in which the family was lodging. His parents were Welsh-born army recruiting sergeant father Thomas H. (Tom) Cooper, and his English-born wife Gertrude (née Gertrude C. Wright) from Crediton, Devon. In light of the heavily polluted air and the offer of a job for his father, the family moved to Exeter, Devon, when Cooper was three and gained the West Country accent that was part of his act. The family lived in the back of Haven Banks, where Cooper attended Mount Radford School for Boys, and helped his parents run their ice cream van, which attended fairs on the weekend. At the age of eight an aunt bought Cooper a magic set and he spent hours perfecting the tricks. Magic ran in his family—his brother David (born 1930) opened a magic shop in the 1960s in Slough High Street (then Buckinghamshire now Berkshire) called D. & Z. Cooper's Magic Shop. On 15 April 1984, Cooper collapsed and soon after died from a heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act on the London Weekend Television variety show Live From Her Majesty's, transmitted live from Her Majesty's Theatre. His stage persona required that his act intentionally went wrong for comic purposes, leading to some initial uncertainty about whether this collapse was real.
Known For
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Himself
Tommy Cooper: The Lost Tapes
2024
10.0
Self (archive footage)
Parkinson at 50
2021
7.0
Tommy Cooper: In His Own Words
2018
5.0
himself
Tommy Cooper - The Very Best Of
2006
0.0
himself
Tommy Cooper - The Missing Pieces
2006
5.5
Self
The Best of Tommy Cooper
2004
0.0
Himself
Tommy Cooper - A Feztival Of Fun With Tommy Cooper
2001
7.0
Tommy Cooper - Tribute To A Comic Genius
2000
0.0
Tommy Cooper: Master Of Comedy
1997
0.0
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
1993
Credits
Tommy Cooper: The Lost Tapes
as Himself
2024
0.0
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
2021
10.0
Tommy Cooper: In His Own Words
2018
7.0
Tommy Cooper - The Very Best Of
as himself
2006
5.0
Tommy Cooper - The Missing Pieces
as himself
2006
0.0
The Best of Tommy Cooper
as Self
2004
5.5
Tommy Cooper - A Feztival Of Fun With Tommy Cooper
as Himself
2001
0.0
Tommy Cooper - Tribute To A Comic Genius
2000
7.0
Tommy Cooper: Master Of Comedy
1997
0.0
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
1993
0.0
Just Like That!
as Self (archival footage)
1989
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A Tribute to Tommy Cooper
as Self
1986
0.0
An Audience with Joan Rivers
1984
7.0
It's Your Move
as Big Removal Man
1982
8.2
🎬
Cooper's Half Hour
1980
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Cooper - Just Like That
1978
5.0
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
Cooper
as Self
1975
5.0
The Tommy Cooper Hour
as Self
1973
6.0
It's Tommy Cooper
1970
0.0
The Plank
as Larger Workman
1967
6.2
Life With Cooper
1966
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🎬
Cooperama
1966
0.0
The Cool Mikado
as Pooh-Bah, Private Detective
1963
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And the Same to You
as Horace Hawkins
1960
5.6
The Bruce Forsyth Show
1959
0.0
🎬
Cooper's Capers
1958
0.0
🎬
Cooper (or Life With Tommy)
1957
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Tommy Cooper at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
N/A
0.0
Tommy Cooper - Just Like That
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