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Claude Cooper is a Actor American born on 4 september 1880
Claude Cooper (September 4, 1880—July 20, 1932) was an English-American character actor on stage, motion pictures, and radio.
Claude Hamilton Cooper was born to a stage manager father and an actress mother in London, England, in 1880. It is said he first appeared upon the stage in the arms of his mother, Mary Stafford Cooper, at the age of eighteen months when the comic opera Castle Grim was performed in Dublin. His family moved to the United States when he was eight, and he soon appeared on the American stage in the melodrama Silver King in 1889.
Cooper was active in American stock and repertoire theater with Russ Whytal, Frederick Freeman Proctor, and Charles Dillingham's companies. By the time of his death, he had played five hundred thirty eight character and comedic roles on Broadway. His first big success was in 1903 as the General in Checkers, which ran for three seasons on Broadway and then toured widely.
Cooper's motion picture career began around 1908 when he helped make Chronophone synchronized sound films for Gaumont which had established a studio in Flushing, New York, recording short songs and vaudeville routines. This early form of sound film was not successful in the United States, in part due to Thomas Edison's obstruction, and Gaumont abandoned American production in 1910. The Flushing studio then became the home of Solax Studios, a newly established silent film production company that hired former Gaumont employees including Claude Cooper who directed Solax's first twelve productions. Cooper appeared in silent films from a variety of East Coast companies, including the All Star Film Corporation, the Famous Players Film Company, the Reliance Film Company, and the Kinemacolor Company of America. However, his longest association was with the Thanhouser Film Corporation of New Rochelle, New York, for whom he worked, usually as an actor but sometimes as a director, from 1914 to 1917. For example, Cooper appeared in Thanhouser's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915). Also at Thanhouser, he and Frank E. McNish were teamed together as the comedy duo "Oscar and Conrad."
In the 1920s Cooper was a busy character actor in New York theaters. Without fail each year from 1917 until his death in 1932, he appeared on Broadway in character roles (such as chauffeurs, drunkards, mayors, sheriffs, yokels). In 1930 he became a radio actor, playing Pegleg Gladdis the patriarch of a hillbilly family in the half hour serial drama Moonshine and Honeysuckle broadcast on the NBC Red network on Sunday afternoons.
Cooper's final motion picture appearance was in 1932 in D. W. Griffith's last film, The Struggle.
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Birth name Claude Hamilton Cooper
Nationality USA
Birth 4 september 1880
Death 20 july 1932 (at 51 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 4 september 1880
Death 20 july 1932 (at 51 years)
Claude Hamilton Cooper was born to a stage manager father and an actress mother in London, England, in 1880. It is said he first appeared upon the stage in the arms of his mother, Mary Stafford Cooper, at the age of eighteen months when the comic opera Castle Grim was performed in Dublin. His family moved to the United States when he was eight, and he soon appeared on the American stage in the melodrama Silver King in 1889.
Cooper was active in American stock and repertoire theater with Russ Whytal, Frederick Freeman Proctor, and Charles Dillingham's companies. By the time of his death, he had played five hundred thirty eight character and comedic roles on Broadway. His first big success was in 1903 as the General in Checkers, which ran for three seasons on Broadway and then toured widely.
Cooper's motion picture career began around 1908 when he helped make Chronophone synchronized sound films for Gaumont which had established a studio in Flushing, New York, recording short songs and vaudeville routines. This early form of sound film was not successful in the United States, in part due to Thomas Edison's obstruction, and Gaumont abandoned American production in 1910. The Flushing studio then became the home of Solax Studios, a newly established silent film production company that hired former Gaumont employees including Claude Cooper who directed Solax's first twelve productions. Cooper appeared in silent films from a variety of East Coast companies, including the All Star Film Corporation, the Famous Players Film Company, the Reliance Film Company, and the Kinemacolor Company of America. However, his longest association was with the Thanhouser Film Corporation of New Rochelle, New York, for whom he worked, usually as an actor but sometimes as a director, from 1914 to 1917. For example, Cooper appeared in Thanhouser's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915). Also at Thanhouser, he and Frank E. McNish were teamed together as the comedy duo "Oscar and Conrad."
In the 1920s Cooper was a busy character actor in New York theaters. Without fail each year from 1917 until his death in 1932, he appeared on Broadway in character roles (such as chauffeurs, drunkards, mayors, sheriffs, yokels). In 1930 he became a radio actor, playing Pegleg Gladdis the patriarch of a hillbilly family in the half hour serial drama Moonshine and Honeysuckle broadcast on the NBC Red network on Sunday afternoons.
Cooper's final motion picture appearance was in 1932 in D. W. Griffith's last film, The Struggle.
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The Struggle (1931)
, 1h33Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Hal Skelly, Zita Johann, Charles Richman, Helen Mack, Claude Cooper, Kate Bruce
Roles Sam
Rating60%
A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's alcoholism.
Daughters of the Night (1924)
Directed by Elmer Clifton
Origin USA
Actors Warner Richmond, Willard Robertson, Claude Cooper
A story about women telephone operators in the big city.
The Woman in White (1917)
Directed by Ernest C. Warde
Genres Drama
Actors Florence La Badie, Richard Neill, Arthur Bauer, Wayne Arey, Claude Cooper
Rating68%
As described in a film magazine review, Laura Fairlie (Florence La Badie) marries Sir Pervival Glyde (Richard R. Neill) as a result of her father's last request. Shortly after her marriage, Ann Catherick (also played by Florence La Badie), known as the "woman in white" and who resembles Laura, comes to Laura and tells her of Glyde's past, making Laura unhappy. Marian (Gertrude Dallas), Laura's half sister, learns from Laura the true state of affairs and decides to keep an eye on Sir Pervival. Through the efforts of Marian, Laura is saved from an unhappy fate.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1915)
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claude Cooper, Morgan Jones, Arthur Bauer
Rating61%
Garden of Lies (1915)
Origin USA
Actors Jane Cowl, William Russell, Claude Cooper
Roles Baron Von Steinberck