Charles Cooper
Actor
- Born
- August 11, 1926 · San Francisco, California, USA
- Died
- November 29, 2013 (age 87)
Charles Darwin Cooper was an American actor who has played a wide variety of television and film roles for more than a half century from 1950 to 2001.
On Broadway, Cooper appeared in The Winner (1954) and All You Need Is One Good Break (1950).
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In 1958, Cooper played the outlaw Tate Masters in the episode "Twelve Guns" of NBC's western television series Cimarron City with George Montgomery and John Smith. In 1959, he played a gunfighter, Jack Rollins, in the episode "The Visitor" of Lawman, an ABC/Warner Brothers Television western series.
He was cast as Matt Yordy in the 1961 episode "Honest Abe" of Chuck Connors' The Rifleman.
Cooper made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Philip Strague in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Buried Clock." His final appearance in 1962 was as Ben Willoughby in "The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal."
Cooper is perhaps best remembered for his appearances in Star Trek related roles. He played the Klingon Chancellor K'mpec in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Sins of the Father" and "Reunion" and the Klingon General Korrd in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
His other film roles included appearances in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man (1956), A Dog's Best Friend (1959), the comedy Valet Girls (1987), and the action film Blind Fury (1989) starring Rutger Hauer.
Known for
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
June 9, 1989
The Wrong Man
December 22, 1956
Blind Fury
August 17, 1989
Panther
May 3, 1995
Rabbit Test
April 9, 1978
Huntress: Spirit of the Night
December 10, 1995
The Big Bounce
March 5, 1969
The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver
February 28, 1977
Valet Girls
January 1, 1987
Angel on My Shoulder
May 11, 1980
FBI Code 98
January 4, 1963
Vamps: Deadly Dreamgirls
January 1, 1995
Acting18
- 1995Huntress: Spirit of the Night as Ty Bodi
- 1995Panther as Sheriff
- 1995Vamps: Deadly Dreamgirls as Max
- 1989Blind Fury as Cobb
- 1989Star Trek V: The Final Frontier as Gen. Korrd
- 1989Twice Under as Sgt. Fitz
- 1987Valet Girls as Victor Smegmite
- 1982Two of a Kind as Bus Driver
- 1981The Five of Me as Deputy Sheriff
- 1980Angel on My Shoulder