Jackie Cooper

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

103

Movies

111

Born: September 15, 1922 – May 3, 2011
From: 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).

Works

111 films

Superman

19787.2

Superman II

19806.8

Superman III

19835.5

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

19874.6

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

20067.4

Treasure Island

19346.5

Ziegfeld Girl

19416.7

Stand Up and Be Counted

19727.0

The Return of Frank James

19406.3

The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'

19826.8

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

19756.3

Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman

20067.6

Soaring Stars

1942

The Champ

19317.1

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

19837.0

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

Judy Garland: By Myself

20048.3

That Certain Age

19385.5

Kilroy Was Here

19475.7

Inside the Dream Factory

19958.0

Hooray for Hollywood

19768.0

Sports on the Silver Screen

19979.0

The Making of 'Superman II'

19837.6

Big John Morrison

1973

The Making of 'Superman III'

19856.8

Surrender

19875.0

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

19715.7

Journey into Fear

19756.0

The Navy Comes Through

19426.0

The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers

19627.0

Skippy

19316.1

Hollywood’s Children

19829.0

The Day the Earth Moved

19747.0

The Devil Is a Sissy

19367.0

The Love Machine

19715.0

Her First Beau

19416.5

Peck's Bad Boy

19346.0

Chosen Survivors

19745.7

Tough Guy

19365.1

Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

19347.3

The Bowery

19335.4

Hollywood Cavalcade

19396.2

Shadow on the Land

19687.7

Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir

20017.3

What a Life

193910.0

Syncopation

19426.8

Teacher's Pet

19306.8

Classic Comedy Teams

19867.0

Sunny Side Up

19297.1

The Spirit of Culver

193910.0

The Christmas Party

19315.4

Where Are Your Children?

19437.0

Fox Movietone Follies of 1929

19294.3

Broadway to Hollywood

19335.0

The Astronaut

19725.9

Two Bright Boys

193910.0

White Banners

19386.1

Sooky

19315.0

Boy of the Streets

19386.0

Calhoun

19646.0

Life with Henry

19416.5

O'Shaughnessy's Boy

19356.2

Glamour Boy

19416.5

Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1

1941

The First Seven Years

19305.8

Dinky

19357.3

Helping Grandma

19317.0

When a Feller Needs a Friend

19325.5

French Leave

19487.0

Divorce In The Family

19326.8

Of Men and Women

1972

You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman

20066.0

Seventeen

19409.0

Bouncing Babies

19296.2

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

193210.0

Bargain Day

19316.2

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

20007.7

When the Wind Blows

19306.7

Bear Facts

19387.0

The Big Guy

19398.0

Gangster's Boy

19386.0

Men of Texas

19429.0

Young Donovan's Kid

193110.0

When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen

1989

Newsboys' Home

19388.0

No Earthly Reason

1984

Scouts to the Rescue

193910.0

Boxing Gloves

19296.2

Gallant Sons

19407.4

Stork Bites Man

194710.0

The Invisible Man

19757.7

Everything's Ducky

19616.5

School's Out

19307.0

Bear Shooters

19305.6

Shivering Shakespeare

19305.9

Streets of New York

19395.4

Mobile Two

19757.0

Rodeo Dough

19406.4

Ticket to Hollywood

1984

Moan & Groan, Inc.

19296.2

Love Business

19316.8

The Our Gang Story

1994

Pups Is Pups

19306.3

Little Daddy

19316.8

Lone Cowboy

19334.0

A Tough Winter

19305.8

Rascal Dazzle

19818.0

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1

2021

The Ghosts

1930

Los cazadores de osos

1930

Temps d'Hiver

1930