Charles Cooper
Also Known As: Charles D. Cooper, Chas Cooper
Biography: Charles Darwin Cooper was an American actor who has played a wide variety of television and film roles for more than a half century from 1950 to 2001. On Broadway, Cooper appeared in The Winner (1954) and All You Need Is One Good Break (1950). In 1958, Cooper played the outlaw Tate Masters in the episode "Twelve Guns" of NBC's western television series Cimarron City with George Montgomery and John Smith. In 1959, he played a gunfighter, Jack Rollins, in the episode "The Visitor" of Lawman, an ABC/Warner Brothers Television western series. He was cast as Matt Yordy in the 1961 episode "Honest Abe" of Chuck Connors' The Rifleman. Cooper made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Philip Strague in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Buried Clock." His final appearance in 1962 was as Ben Willoughby in "The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal." Cooper is perhaps best remembered for his appearances in Star Trek related roles. He played the Klingon Chancellor K'mpec in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Sins of the Father" and "Reunion" and the Klingon General Korrd in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. His other film roles included appearances in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man (1956), A Dog's Best Friend (1959), the comedy Valet Girls (1987), and the action film Blind Fury (1989) starring Rutger Hauer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday: August 11, 1926
Deathday: November 29, 2013
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Gender: Male
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Overview: A renegade Vulcan with a startling secret hijacks the U.S.S. Enterprise in order to find a mythical planet.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-09
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Rabbit Test
Overview: Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-09
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The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver
Overview: A houswife, tired of her everyday routine, makes changes in her hair, her wardrobe and her makeup, and begins to take on the personality of a woman who had died five years earlier.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-28
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The Wrong Man
Overview: In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-22
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Blind Fury
Overview: A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-17
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Twice Under
Overview: Cannel expert Ed is asked for advice by the local police in search for the murderer of two sewer-men. Soon Ed realizes that not he's seeking the murderer, but the other way around: it's his former friend Daggat, who's come for revenge for an incident in Vietnam, where Ed would have let him die. His half-Vietnamese teenage son Rick fears that Ed has no chance against Daggat and hurries after him to help or at least take counter-revenge.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Valet Girls
Overview: A young girl who aspires to a singing career gets herself and her best friend a job as valet parking girls at a Malibu party in order to meet people who can help them achieve their dreams.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Big Bounce
Overview: A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-05
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FBI Code 98
Overview: A bomb is discovered in the luggage of a businessman traveling aboard a plane.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-04
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Two of a Kind
Overview: Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. One day Nolie visits his beloved grandfather in a rest home and is horrified at how the old man has deteriorated, vegetating in his wheelchair. He realizes that this is partly due to the medication the nurses are giving him. Nolie decides that he must rehabilitate Grandpa himself, since no one else cares. Furthermore, he and Grandpa must keep their project a secret. It's a job for a man, and time for Nolie to become one.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-08
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Gun Fight
Overview: Action Western directed by Edward L. Cahn . After courageously protecting a pretty dance hall girl (Joan Staley) from peril, former cavalry soldier Wayne (James Brown) refuses to join his brother Brad's (Gregg Palmer) unlawful cattle rustling gang, which leads to heated disagreements, bitter betrayals and life-threatening danger.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-30
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Panther
Overview: Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-03
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The Five of Me
Overview: Henry Hawksworth is a man menaced by a multiple personality. There is Dana, the conservative family man; Johnny, violent and sociopathic; Peter, creative and childish; and Phil, protective and unemotional. "Dana" falls in love with Ann and marries her. Following a crime, "Johnny" is arrested and tried. In court, Henry's multiple personalities are painfully revealed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-12
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Angel on My Shoulder
Overview: A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally honest politician.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-11
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Vamps: Deadly Dreamgirls
Overview: Tasha runs a strip club which contains a few vampire strippers. She is well aware of the bloodsucker problem as she is one herself. Heather is an all-American girl who applies for a job to pay her way through school. She is hired but it doesn't take long for Tasha to decide that they should suck Heather into their clan. Only a faltering priest named Seamus can save Heather from the horrible prospect of eternal life.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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A Dog's Best Friend
Overview: A young orphan rejects his foster parents and instead turns to a German shepherd whose master was recently murdered. Stumbling on some evidence, the boy is rescued from the killer by his dog.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-20
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Huntress: Spirit of the Night
Overview: An architect discovers the animal inside her after she falls prey to an ancient curse on a visit to her Welsh homeland.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-10
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Conspiracy of Terror
Overview: A husband-and-wife detective team investigate the existence of lethal Satanic cults , while the husband battles with his Orthodox Jewish parents who haven't forgiven him for marrying a Gentile woman.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-29
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