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Merian C. Cooper
Aviator + Actor + Director and Producer
Male
Born
Oct 24, 1893
Hometown
Florida
Died
Apr 21, 1973
Death Place
California
Nationality
American
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Merian Caldwell Cooper was an American aviator, United States Air Force and Polish Air Force officer, adventurer, screenwriter, film director and producer. His most famous film was the 1933 movie King Kong.
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CHILDHOOD
1893
Birth
Born on October 24, 1893.
TEENAGE
1912
18 Years Old
Merian Caldwell Cooper was born to John C. Cooper, an American of English descent, and the former Mary Caldwell, in Jacksonville, Florida. He was educated at The Lawrenceville School and entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1912, but resigned in 1915 (his senior year) in a dispute over his belief in air power which the Navy did not share.
TWENTIES
1916
22 Years Old
In 1916, he joined the Georgia National Guard to help chase Pancho Villa in Mexico.
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In January 1919, while on special duty with the American Red Cross in France, he located the grave near the village of Murvaux of Lieutenant Frank Luke, Jr., America's second-highest-scoring ace of World War I.
1920
26 Years Old
On July 26, 1920, his plane was shot down, and he spent nearly 9 months in a Soviet prisoner of war camp.
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THIRTIES
1933
39 Years Old
Cooper was head of production for RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1935.
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FORTIES
1934
40 Years Old
Cooper was vice president in charge of production for Pioneer Pictures from 1934 to 1936, and vice president of Selznick International Pictures in 1936–1937, before moving to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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1935
41 Years Old
Throughout his career, Cooper was a proponent of technical innovation. The film King Kong, which he co-wrote, co-directed, and appeared in, was a breakthrough in this regard. Another outstanding film that he produced in trying to follow up on his success with King Kong was the 1935 film She.
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FIFTIES
1947
53 Years Old
Cooper and his friend and frequent collaborator, noted director John Ford, formed Argosy Productions in 1947 and produced such notable films as Wagon Master (1950), Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), and The Searchers (1956).
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1952
58 Years Old
He was nominated for an Academy Award for producing The Quiet Man in 1952, but lost to Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1973
80 Years Old
In the 1950s he supported Joseph McCarthy in his crusade to root out perceived communists in Hollywood and Washington, D.C. In April 1973 Merian C. Cooper died of cancer in San Diego, California.
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