Charles Cooper
Born: 1926-08-11 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 2013-11-29
Known For: Acting
Biography
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). 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.
Filmography
2022
- The Wedding Veil Unveiled ... (Producer)
2020
- Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas ... (Producer)
1997
- The Practice as Judge Robert Boucher
1995
- Panther as Sheriff
- Huntress: Spirit of the Night as Ty Bodi
- Vamps: Deadly Dreamgirls as Max
1989
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier as Gen. Korrd
- Blind Fury as Cobb
- Twice Under as Sgt. Fitz
1987
- Star Trek: The Next Generation as K'mpec
- Valet Girls as Victor Smegmite
1982
- Two of a Kind as Bus Driver
1981
- Father Murphy
- The Five of Me as Deputy Sheriff
1980
- Angel on My Shoulder as Matt
1978
- Dallas as Curley Morrison
- Rabbit Test as Second Presidential Aide
1977
- CHiPs as Trucker
- The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver as Mr. Logan
1975
- Conspiracy of Terror as Irate Driver
1974
- The Rockford Files as Jack
- Police Woman as the Chairman
1969
- The Big Bounce as Senator
1963
- FBI Code 98 as Special Agent Bernard Lyons
1961
- Gun Fight as Cole Fender
1960
- The Case of the Dangerous Robin as Anthony McCord
1959
- Bonanza as Gil Fenton
- The Third Man as Count Alex Steka
- Johnny Ringo as Slim Pardee
- A Dog's Best Friend as Deputy Sheriff Bill Beamer
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Frank Kreager
- The Texan as Dan Philips
1957
- Perry Mason as Ben Willoughby
- Maverick as Phillip Stanton
- Wagon Train as Lieutenant Quincy Abbott
- Sugarfoot as Wesley Jerome Lloyd
- Trackdown as Matt Turley (uncredited)
1956
- The Wrong Man as Detective Matthews
1955
- Gunsmoke as Cando
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Bernard K. Froy