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George A. Cooper is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter British born on 7 march 1925 at Leeds (United-kingdom)
George A. Cooper (born 7 March 1925) is a retired English actor and voice artist.
One of his best-known roles was as the caretaker Mr. Griffiths in the long-running children's TV series Grange Hill. He also enjoyed acclaim as Geoffrey Fisher, the stern father of the eponymous antihero Billy Liar, in both the original West End stage version (1960) and the later sitcom (1973–74). He also had a recurring role in Coronation Street as Willie Piggott, between 1964 and 1971.
His other credits include Danger Man, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, No Hiding Place, Doctor Who - The Smugglers, Softly, Softly, The Avengers, The Saint, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Troubleshooters, Steptoe and Son, Doomwatch, Public Eye, Budgie, Bless This House, Sykes, Rising Damp, The New Avengers, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, All Creatures Great and Small, Juliet Bravo, When the Boat Comes In, Terry and June, Taggart, Casualty and Heartbeat.
He had roles in various films including: Violent Playground (1958), Hell Is a City (1960), The Cracksman (1963), Nightmare (1964), Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) with Christopher Lee and the film version of Bless This House (1972) with Sid James.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 7 march 1925 at Leeds (United-kingdom)
Death 16 november 2018 (at 93 years)
Birth 7 march 1925 at Leeds (United-kingdom)
Death 16 november 2018 (at 93 years)
One of his best-known roles was as the caretaker Mr. Griffiths in the long-running children's TV series Grange Hill. He also enjoyed acclaim as Geoffrey Fisher, the stern father of the eponymous antihero Billy Liar, in both the original West End stage version (1960) and the later sitcom (1973–74). He also had a recurring role in Coronation Street as Willie Piggott, between 1964 and 1971.
His other credits include Danger Man, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, No Hiding Place, Doctor Who - The Smugglers, Softly, Softly, The Avengers, The Saint, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Troubleshooters, Steptoe and Son, Doomwatch, Public Eye, Budgie, Bless This House, Sykes, Rising Damp, The New Avengers, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, All Creatures Great and Small, Juliet Bravo, When the Boat Comes In, Terry and June, Taggart, Casualty and Heartbeat.
He had roles in various films including: Violent Playground (1958), Hell Is a City (1960), The Cracksman (1963), Nightmare (1964), Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) with Christopher Lee and the film version of Bless This House (1972) with Sid James.
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Red Monarch (1983)
, 1h40Directed by Jack Gold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Noir
Themes Political films
Actors Colin Blakely, David Suchet, David Kelly, Carroll Baker, David Threlfall, Ian Hogg
Roles Kaganovitch
Rating59%
The Star Chamber (1983)
, 1h49Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Serial killer films, Films about capital punishment, Children's films
Actors Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, Larry Hankin, James Sikking
Roles State Senator Walden
Rating62%
Judge Steven Hardin (Michael Douglas) is an idealistic Los Angeles jurist who gets frustrated when the technicalities of the law prevent the prosecution of two men who are accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old boy. They were driving slowly late at night and attracted the suspicion of two police officers, who wondered if the van's occupants might be burglars. After checking the license plate for violations, the policemen pulled them over for expired paperwork, claimed to have smelled marijuana, then saw a bloody shoe inside the van. However, the paperwork was actually submitted on time (it was merely processed late), meaning the police had no reason to pull over the van and Hardin has no choice (see fruit of the poisonous tree) but to throw out any subsequently discovered evidence, i.e. the bloody shoe. Hardin is even more distraught when the father of the boy attempts to shoot the criminals in court but misses and shoots a cop instead. Subsequently, the father commits suicide while in jail only after he informs Hardin that another boy has been discovered raped and murdered and tells him "This one is on you, your Honor. That boy would be alive if you hadn't let those men go." After hearing all this, Judge Hardin approaches his friend, Judge Caulfield (Hal Holbrook), who tells him of a modern-day Star Chamber: a group of judges who identify criminals who fell through the judicial system's cracks and then take actions against them outside the legal structure.
Nelly's Version (1983)
Genres Drama
Actors Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Barbara Jefford, Nicholas Ball, George A. Cooper, Brian Deacon
Rating65%
Trial by Combat (1976)
, 1h28Directed by Kevin Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors John Mills, Donald Pleasence, Barbara Hershey, David Birney, Margaret Leighton, Peter Cushing
Roles 2nd Leather Jerkin
Rating51%
An British organization known as the Knights of Avalon is discontent that so many criminals can evade the law. So they decide to, secretly hunt down these criminals, and battle and execute them with medieval weapons.
Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done (1975)
, 1h21Directed by Bill Meléndez
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Animation
Actors Victor Spinetti, George A. Cooper, Miriam Karlin, Julia McKenzie, Barry Cryer, Beth Porter
Roles The Pirate King (voice)
Rating66%
Queen Victoria sends Dick Deadeye (Victor Spinetti), a sailor, to recover the "Ultimate Secret" from two thieves, the Sorcerer (Peter Reeves) and his reptilian henchman, the Shameleon. They are trying to sell it to the Pirate King (George Cooper, sung Ian Samwell). At a military parade ("Entrance of the Peers"), Dick sees the Sorcerer speaking with the Pirate King. There, Nanki (John Newton, sung Casey Kelly) sees his evil twin brother Poo (same), who is picking pockets. Dick goes for backup to headquarters, the Hexagon ("Here's a how-dee-do"), finding the Captain (Peter Reeves) and the Major-General (Francis Ghent, sung John Baldry; "I am the very model of a modern major general").
Bless This House (1972)
, 1h27Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Diana Coupland, Sid James, Terry Scott, June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, Sally Geeson
Roles Mr Wilson
Rating62%
1970s English suburbia: middle-aged homeowner Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter. Then the rude and arrogant Ronald Baines and his family move in next door.
, 1h33Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Mona Washbourne, Paul Nicholas, George Benson, Peter Copley, Peter Jeffrey, George A. Cooper
Roles Trouncer
Rating56%
A young man lives with his grandmother. He and his girlfriend plot to kill the old lady.
Cromwell (1970)
, 2h19Directed by Ken Hughes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Nigel Stock, Geoffrey Keen, Dorothy Tutin
Rating69%
Oliver Cromwell is a devout Puritan, a country squire, magistrate and former member of Parliament. King Charles I's policies, including the enclosing of common land for the use of wealthy landowners and the introduction of "Popish" and "Romish" rituals into the Church of England have become increasingly grating to many, including Cromwell. In fact Charles regards himself as a devout Anglican, permitting his French Queen to practise Roman Catholicism in private but forbidding her to bring up the young Prince of Wales in that faith. Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World, but, on the eve of their departure, he is persuaded by his friends to stay and resume a role in politics.
, 1h31Directed by Bud Yorkin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Orson Welles
Roles Dr. Duval
Rating63%
Two sets of identical twins, played by Wilder and Sutherland, are accidentally switched at birth. One set, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, is aristocratic and haughty, while the other set, Charles and Claude Coupé, is poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigues.
, 1h40Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Peter Cook, John Cleese, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser, Harold Pinter, Arthur Lowe
Roles Blacket
Rating68%
The mysterious Michael Rimmer (Cook) appears at a small and ailing British advertising agency, where the employees assume he is working on a time and motion study. However, he quickly begins to assert a de facto authority over the firm’s mostly ineffectual staff and soon acquires control of the business from the incompetent boss Ferret (Arthur Lowe). Rimmer then succeeds in establishing the newly invigorated firm as the country’s leading polling agency, and begins to make regular TV appearances as a polling expert. He subsequently moves into politics, acting as an adviser to the leader of the Tory opposition, and then becomes an MP himself, for the constituency of Budleigh Moor (a reference to Cook's frequent collaborator, Dudley Moore), along the way acquiring a trophy wife (Vanessa Howard). Relying on a combination of charisma and deception—and murder—he then rapidly works his way up the political ladder to become prime minister (after throwing his predecessor off an oil rig), and finally, by public demand, a near-dictatorial president. Ferret attempts to assassinate Rimmer as he and his wife ride through the capital in an open-topped convertible, but fails and falls to his death.
, 1h32Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Dracula films, Vampires in film
Actors Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson, Ewan Hooper, Michael Ripper, Marion Mathie
Roles Village Landlord
Rating65%
A year later in 1906, following the events of the previous film, Dracula has been destroyed. Monsignor Ernest Mueller (Rupert Davies) comes to the village on a routine visit only to find the altar boy is now a frightened mute and the priest (Ewan Hooper) has lost his faith. The villagers refuse to attend Mass at the Catholic church because the shadow of Dracula's castle touches it. To bring to an end the villagers' fears, Mueller climbs to the castle to exorcise it.
The Strange Affair (1968)
, 1h46Directed by David Greene
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Michael York, Jeremy Kemp, Susan George, Jack Watson, George A. Cooper, George Benson
Roles Supt. Kingsley
Rating62%
Peter Strange (York) is an idealistic young police recruit who gets mixed up with a tough and jaded Scotland Yard detective (Kemp). The inspector is trying to arrest a gang of drug smugglers, and threatens to blackmail Strange unless he plants some heroin on one of the gang. Strange reluctantly agrees, but lands in further trouble when he's the one who gets arrested. Meanwhile, Strange is having an affair with Frederika (George), who is part of a porno ring where her aunt and uncle film her sexual encounters from behind a one-way mirror.
Smashing Time (1967)
, 1h36Directed by Desmond Davis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre
Actors Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Michael York, Anna Quayle, Irene Handl, Ian Carmichael
Roles Irishman
Rating59%
Brenda (Rita Tushingham) and Yvonne (Lynn Redgrave), two girls from the North of England, arrive in London to seek fame and fortune. However, their image of the city is quickly tarnished when they are robbed of their savings. Determined not to let her chance slip, Yvonne visits Carnaby Street in the hope of catching the eye of a trendy photographer, whilst Brenda has to stay behind and do the washing up in a 'greasy spoon' cafe after the girls can't afford to pay.
Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965)
, 1h28Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Cilla Black, Deryck Guyler, Margaret Nolan, Elisabeth Sladen, T.P. McKenna, Mona Washbourne
Roles Mr. Lumsden
Rating66%
Life at the Top (1965)
, 1h57Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Edward Fox, Donald Wolfit
Roles Graffham
Rating66%
In Room at the Top Joe Lampton's escape from his working-class background through his seduction of, and marriage to, the daughter of a wealthy mill owner had been portrayed.