Profile
Jackie Cooper
Actor + Director
Male
Born
Sep 15, 1922
Hometown
Los Angeles
Died
May 3, 2011
Death Place
Santa Monica, Cal...
Other Names
Cooper, John, Jr....
Jackie Cooper was an American actor, television director, producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to make the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. At age 9, he was also… Read More
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Romance
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Barbara KrausMarried 1954
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June HorneMarried 1944
News + Updates
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Could Quvenzhané Wallis Become The Youngest Best Actress Nominee Ever?Huffington Post - Nov 29, 2012
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Golf Scoreboard Bend BulletinGoogle News - Aug 24, 2011
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From ‘front Page’ To ‘spider Man,’ Editors Are HeadlinersNYTimes - Aug 14, 2011
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All The Editors That Are Fit To Spoof New York TimesGoogle News - Aug 10, 2011
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1922
Birth
Born on September 15, 1922.
He graduated to bit parts in feature films such as Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 and Sunny Side Up.
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1930
7 Years Old
He initially was only a supporting character in the series, but by early 1930 he had done so well with the transition to sound films that he had become one of the Gang's major characters.
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According to his autobiography, Cooper, under contract to Hal Roach Studios, was loaned in the spring of 1931 to Paramount to star in Skippy (directed by his uncle, Norman Taurog), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor — the youngest actor ever (at the age of 9) to be nominated for an Oscar as Best Actor.
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TWENTIES
1944
21 Years Old
Cooper served in the United States Navy during World War II and remained active in the reserves for the next several decades, reaching the rank of Captain. He was married three times: first to June Horne from 1944 until 1949, with whom he had one son, John "Jack" Cooper III (born 1946).
In 1950, he appeared in Mr. Roberts in Boston, Massachusetts, as Ensign Pulver.
FORTIES
From 1964 to 1969, Cooper was vice president of program development at Columbia Pictures Screen Gems TV division.
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1969
46 Years Old
Cooper left Columbia in 1969 and started yet another phase of his career, one in which he would act occasionally in key character roles.
FIFTIES
1973
50 Years Old
He appeared in Candidate for Crime starring Peter Falk as Columbo in 1973 and the short-lived 1975 ABC series Mobile One, a Jack Webb/Mark VII Limited production, but mostly he devoted more and more of his time to directing dozens of episodic TV and other projects.
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1976
53 Years Old
Cooper participated in several automobile racing events, including the record-breaking class D cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. He also drove in several SCCA road racing competitions. Cooper was named the honorary starter for the 1976 Winston 500 at the Alabama International Motor Speedway, which is now known as Talladega Superspeedway, in Talladega, Alabama.
1982
59 Years Old
Cooper's autobiography, Please Don't Shoot My Dog, was published in 1982.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1989
66 Years Old
Cooper announced his retirement in 1989, although he was still directing episodes of the syndicated series Superboy.
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2011
89 Years Old
Cooper died on May 3, 2011 after a short illness, in Santa Monica, California.
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