Jackie Cooper
Birthday: 1922-09-15
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography: Jackie Cooper (September 15, 1922 –May 3, 2011) was an American actor. He is best known for his role of Perry White in the Christopher Reeves Superman films (1978–1987). He with the Navy in the South Pacific toward the end of World War II and then, quietly and without publicity or fanfare, compiled one of the most distinguished peacetime military careers of anyone in his profession. In 1961, as his weekly TV series Hennesey (1959) was enhancing naval recruiting efforts, accepted a commission as a line officer in the Naval Reserve with duties in recruitment, training films, and public relations. Holder of a multi-engine pilot license, he later co-piloted jet planes for the Navy, which made him an Honorary Aviator authorized to wear wings of gold-at the time only the third so honored in naval aviation history. By 1976 he had attained the rank of captain, and was in uniform aboard the carrier USS Constellation for the Bicentennial celebration on July 4. In 1980, the Navy proposed a period of active duty at the Pentagon that would have resulted in a promotion to rear admiral, bringing him even with Air Force Reserve Brigadier General James Stewart. Fresh on the heels of a second directing Emmy, he felt his absence would impact achieving a long-held goal of directing motion pictures, and reluctantly declined. (The opportunity in films never materialized.) Holds Letters of Commendation from six secretaries of the Navy. Was honorary chairman of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation and a charter member of VIVA, the effort to return POW-MIAs from Vietnam. Upon retirement in 1982, he was decorated with the Legion of Merit by Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr.. Other than Stewart, no performer in his industry has achieved a higher uniformed rank in the U.S. military. (Glenn Ford was also a Naval Reserve captain, and director and Captain John Ford was awarded honorary flag rank upon his 1951 retirement from the Naval Reserve).
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Superman
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Cla...
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The Ghosts
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
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Superman II
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Ziegfeld Girl
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Superman III
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The Champ
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The Return of Frank James
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords....
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Treasure Island
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The Our Gang Story
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed s...
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Gangster's Boy
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Skippy
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Lone Cowboy
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Chosen Survivors
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Broadway to Hollywood
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville...
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Glamour Boy
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays ...
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Men of Texas
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Surrender
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White Banners
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Boxing Gloves
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Divorce In The Family
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Everything's Ducky
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Peck's Bad Boy
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Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual c...
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The Astronaut
An elaborate deception emerges when an American astronaut is lost on a mission to Mars. Space agency...
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Journey into Fear
U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab bus...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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Seventeen
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Tough Guy
An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the...
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out....
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Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban famil...
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Gallant Sons
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Moan & Groan, Inc.
The gang goes digging for treasure in an old abandoned house against Kennedy the Cop's wishes....
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
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Where Are Your Children?
Judy Wilson (Gale Storm), feeling neglected because both of her parents are working in defense plant...
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Bear Facts
In an effort to impress Darla, Alfalfa tells her that he's a famous bear trainer. Little does he kno...
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Dinky
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a priso...
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Boy of the Streets
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative....
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When the Wind Blows
Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Find...
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The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is th...
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Newsboys' Home
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys....
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The Bowery
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had g...
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Bouncing Babies
With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back....
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Shivering Shakespeare
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present the...
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Bear Shooters
The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to...
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Sports on the Silver Screen
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev...
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The Day the Earth Moved
An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one bel...
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The Love Machine
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion....
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What a Life
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies....
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The Devil Is a Sissy
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-wel...
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When a Feller Needs a Friend
A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents....
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The Christmas Party
In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his footbal...
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The Spirit of Culver
Tom Allen, an orphan accustomed to waiting in bread lines is awarded a scholarship to the Culver Mil...
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Mobile Two
A TV reporter whose career was ruined by his drinking gets another chance when he is hired by a TV n...
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The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
A TV movie with intertwining music numbers and sketches....
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Sunny Side Up
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marr...
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A Tough Winter
The gang creates a huge mess after they get into a taffy-pulling contest....
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School's Out
The schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brothe...
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Helping Grandma
The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids t...
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Love Business
Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house....
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Little Daddy
Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage....
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The Making of 'Superman III'
This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Superman III, a more...
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Rodeo Dough
After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star-filled ro...
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Stand Up and Be Counted
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the p...
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Shadow on the Land
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA....
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French Leave
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles...
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That Certain Age
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, new...
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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1 contains the first 11 Our Gang sound sho...
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Scouts to the Rescue
Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's ...
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
From 1915-1939, Frances Marion was one of the most powerful talents in the movie industry. In one of...
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-th...
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Judy Garland: By Myself
As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever ...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Kilroy Was Here
"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kil...
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Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
The history of the comic book superhero, Superman, in his various media incarnations....
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Sooky
Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who l...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to m...
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Her First Beau
15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day ...
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Big John Morrison
Detectives Calabrese and Jameson become emotionally involved in a robbery/homicide/rape crime spree ...
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Bargain Day
Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl....
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three K...
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Stork Bites Man
A man engages in a boycott of a no children allowed apartment house, with the help of an imaginary s...
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Streets of New York
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of ma...
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Rascal Dazzle
The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jer...
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The Invisible Man
Inspired by the original 1897 novel by H.G. Wells, the pilot film depicts Daniel Westin working for ...
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Hollywood’s Children
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell...
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Two Bright Boys
A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away....
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The Big Guy
A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death pe...
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Inside the Dream Factory
Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine....
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Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of MGM's ...
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Ticket to Hollywood
Documentary looking at how Hollywood went from a small town to a mega center....
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You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman
A 5-part documentary of the history of Superman in the movies. • Origin - Superman in the media and...
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Hooray for Hollywood
A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreel...
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When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
A documentary about the careers of child stars of the '40s in Hollywood, featuring movie clips with ...
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Los cazadores de osos
The kids go on a camping trip and run into some bootleggers. This here is the Spanish language vers...
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Classic Comedy Teams
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and televis...
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Superman Redeemed
One of the most legendary Fan Edits of all time by ADigitalMan, Superman Redeemed presents a hybrid ...
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