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Other InformationAwardsOutstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series` - Night Directors Guild of America, USA [1980] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series Emmy Awards [1979] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Directing in Comedy Emmy Awards [1974] (Won/Nominated: Won) Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead) Emmy Awards [1962] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead) Emmy Awards [1961] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actor in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1931] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame (Won/Nominated: Won) Literature/PublicityBooks AuthoredPlease Don`t Shoot My Dog [1981] Portrayed InRainbow [1978] |
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Cooper first appeared in the short Boxing Gloves in 1929, one of the Our Gang comedies. He was signed to a three year contract that was to expire in 1932. He initially was only a supporting character in 1929, but by early 1930 he had done so well with the transition to sound films that he had become a major character. He was the main character in the episodes The First Seven Years, When the Wind Blows, and others. His most notable Our Gang shorts explore his crush on Miss Crabtree, the schoolteacher played by June Marlowe, which included the trilogy of shorts Teacher`s Pet, School`s Out, and Love Business.
Other movie studios liked Cooper`s work. In the Spring of 1931, Paramount signed him as well as recurring Our Ganger Donald Haines to a long term contract to star in features. Both Jackie Cooper and Donald Haines walked off the Our Gang set during the production of the second to last episode Bargain Day to begin work on their first feature film over at Paramount. His first non-Our Gang role was in 1931, when Norman Taurog hired him to star in Skippy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor—the youngest actor ever (at the age of 9) to be nominated for an Oscar as Best Actor. Jackie would remain at Paramount while at the same time Donald Haines would leave Paramount to return to the more child-friendly Hal Roach Studios and resume his recurring Our Gang role on time for the start of the 1931–1932 season (when Our Gang was depleted because several long-time major characters would not return for the new season) until 1933 and continue on in other Roach short subjects after that. The movie catapulted young Cooper to super-stardom. Our Gang producer Hal Roach sold Jackie`s contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in mid-1931, as he felt the youngster would have a better future in features. He began a long on-screen relationship with actor Wallace Beery in such films as The Champ (1931), The Bowery (1933), Treasure Island (1934), and O`Shaughnessy`s Boy (1935). A legion of film critics and fans have lauded the relationship between the two as an example of classic movie magic. However, Cooper later revealed that Beery was a violent, foul-mouthed drunkard who was disliked by those with whom he worked. Cooper said Beery had been abusive toward him and was one of the cruelest, most sadistic people he has ever known. Not conventionally handsome as he approached adulthood, Cooper had the typical child-actor problems finding roles as an adolescent, and he served in World War II, so his career was at a nadir when he starred in two popular television series, The People’s Choice and Hennesey. From 1964-69, Cooper was vice president of program development at Columbia Pictures Screen Gems TV division. He was responsible for packaging series (such as Bewitched) and other projects and selling them to the networks. He reportedly cast Sally Field as Gidget. Cooper seemed to thrive at this job, acting only once during this period, in his TV-movie debut "Shadow on the Land" (ABC, 1968). Cooper left Columbia in 1969 and started yet another phase of his career, one in which he would act occasionally in key character roles (namely the short-lived 1975 ABC series Mobile One, a Jack Webb/Mark VII Limited production), but mostly he devoted more and more of his time to directing dozens of episodic TV and other projects. His work as director on M*A*S*H (TV series) and The White Shadow earned him Emmy awards. Cooper fo Biography Credit: www.wikipedia.com |
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BiographyDistinctive FeaturesPouted LipsTrivia and QuotesQuotes Sometimes I`ll wake up in the middle of the night and I`ll hear a voice that sounds familiar...my wife has fallen asleep with the tube on, and I`ll finally start recognizing the dialogue, look up, and Jesus Christ, it`s me at 14, or 12, or 9, or whatever. Sometimes I`ll sit there and watch it and I can tell myself what`s coming next...I remember the dialogue, the scene and the set very well, and then there`ll be a part of the picture I never remembered at all. Because there were times as a kid, as a teenager especially, when I`d be terribly occupied with what I was doing -- with my boat, or on a circuit of rodeos and horseshoes, or with my car -- very often on some of this stuff when I`d have to go to work. I`d just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, so nobody knew how involved or not involved I was. But I look at that stuff now and I can see I wasn`t involved, and I wasn`t very good." The Face. I don`t like anything pasty, but I don`t like this pancake of make-up everybody`s wearing. Across the room it may look all right, but not when you get close. The main thing is I don`t like the way it smells. No amount of rationalization, no excuses, can make up for what a kid loses -- what I lost -- when a normal childhood is abandoned for a movie career. I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding. So I felt, well, I`ll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do. A nice, steady job I don`t need that bad. I`m not that satisfied with it. From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own. Well, they just don`t know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don`t really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me. In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means. So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I`m not investing too much capital in these things. For the child actor, it was difficult. I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o`clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o`clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either. I need a steady job like running in this new series, because we own the negative to every show that goes on the air, my partner and I. The studio didn`t ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out. I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn`t treat you like Daddy at all. They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph. But the working I would always want to do. They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it. If it`s boring, then it`s tiring. I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you`re not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked. There was only so much television you could do. So I`m in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different. But I want to do good work, after this series. A lot of people like to run in plays because it`s a nice, steady job. I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was. So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up. To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended. There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist. So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder. People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable`s role, or most of them.Trivia Born at 12:35pm-PDT. Nephew of director Norman Taurog Served in the United States Navy and held the rank of Captain. In the 1976 Bicentennial Special on TV was in uniform aboard the carrier USS Constellation. Until 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes was nominated for Best Actress in 2004, he was the only actor to earn a Best Actor/Actress nomination for an Academy Award before his/her 18th birthday. Seventeen other actors have earned Oscar nominations as children, but all except Keisha were in the supporting categories. When his first son was to be signed to a long-term contract with MGM, Cooper`s studio at the height of his fame as a child, he intervened and convinced his ex-wife (the boy`s mother) to decline: "It`s no way for a kid to grow up." Adamantly opposed to children acting to the exclusion of a normal upbringing, based on his own life experiences. None of Cooper`s four children were performers. Son John "Jack" Anthony Cooper born August 19, 1946. Children with Barbara: Russell (born 1956), Julie (1957-1997), and Cristina "Crissy" (born 1959). Separated from wife Barbara when he was in his fifties, but they later reconciled. Third wife Barbara born c. 1927. Attended the same high school as Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Gina Gershon, Rhonda Fleming, Rob Reiner, Antonio Sabato Jr., Pauly Shore, Michael Tolkin, Betty White, Corbin Bernsen, Elizabeth Daily, Albert Brooks, and Crispin Glover. Along with Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, and Marc McClure, he is one of only four actors to appear in the first four Superman films: Superman (1978), Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983), and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987). In 1981 wrote an autobiographical account of his traumatic years as a child star "Please Don`t Shoot My Dog" by Jackie Cooper, Dick Kleiner. As of 2005, he`s the youngest actor to be nominated for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" at the Academy Awards. Hated the smell of women`s face makeup. (foundation) | ||
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