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Jackie Cooper

Jackie Cooper

Highest Rated: 100% Treasure Island (1934)

Lowest Rated: 10% Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

Birthday: Sep 15, 1922

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

One of the most popular child actors in Hollywood history, Jackie Cooper won moviegoers' hearts as the adorable lead in such classic melodramas as "The Champ" (1931) and "Treasure Island" (1934). Unlike many of his fellow juvenile players, he enjoyed a bountiful career as an adult in both the acting and directing fields. Cooper was a box office draw as a boy thanks to his All-American looks and ability to produce gallons of tears upon command. He returned to the business in his thirties as an in-demand player on television. Directing for shortform TV became a second career in the 1960s, as did a stint as an executive for Screen Gems; he divided his time between acting gigs in films like "Superman: The Movie" (1978) with directing and producing assignments until the late 1980s. Cooper's trove of family films from his child days, and his vast body of work as an adult, made him one of the longest-running success stories in Hollywood.

Highest rated movies

100% 73% Treasure Island
96% 76% The Champ
94% 86% Superman: The Movie
86% 55% Skippy
83% 76% Superman II
71% 47% The Return of Frank James
29% 23% Superman III
22% 34% Surrender

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 86% Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut Perry White (Character) - 2006
10% 16% Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Perry White (Character) $14.9M 1987
22% 34% Surrender Ace Morgan (Character) $5.4M 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ladies Director - 1987
No Score Yet 60% Izzy and Moe Director - 1985
No Score Yet 82% The Night They Saved Christmas Director - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Glitter Director - 1984
29% 23% Superman III Perry White (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Moonlight Director - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story Director - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Leave 'Em Laughing Director - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rodeo Girl Director - 1980
83% 76% Superman II Perry White (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rascal Dazzle Unknown (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 100% White Mama Director - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marathon Director - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sex and the Single Parent Director - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Having Babies III Director - 1978
94% 86% Superman: The Movie Perry White (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perfect Gentlemen Director - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rainbow Director - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Operation Petticoat Admiral (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Invisible Man Walter Carlson (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Skim Money Unknown (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mobile Two Peter Campbell (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet News Jungle Unknown (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Day the Earth Moved Steve Barker (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 29% Chosen Survivors Raymond Couzins (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Three Comedies Unknown (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stand Up and Be Counted Director - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Love Machine Danton Miller (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Astronaut Kurt Anderson (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet 27% Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring Ed Miller (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shadow on the Land Lt. Col. Andy Davis (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 20% Everything's Ducky Lt. J.S. Parmell (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet French Leave Skitch Kilroy (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet Where Are Your Children? Danny Cheston (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 38% Syncopation Johnny Schumacher (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kilroy Was Here John J. Kilroy (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Men of Texas Robert Houston Scott (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 20% The Navy Comes Through Joe "Babe" Duttson (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 78% Ziegfeld Girl Jerry Regan (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Glamour Boy Tiny Barlow (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Life With Henry Henry Aldrich (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Her First Beau Chuck Harris (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gallant Sons Byron "By" Newbold (Character) - 1940
71% 47% The Return of Frank James Clem (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Seventeen William Sylvanus Baxter (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Streets of New York Jimmy (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Spirit of Culver Tom Allen (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet What a Life Henry Aldrich (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 30% The Big Guy Jimmy Hutchins (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet 45% That Certain Age Kenneth Warren (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gangster's Boy Larry Kelly (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 78% White Banners Peter Trimble (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Boy of the Streets Chuck Brennan (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet 40% The Devil Is a Sissy "Buck" Murphy (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tough Guy Frederick Martindale "Freddie" Vincent, III (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet O'Shaughnessy's Boy Joseph `'Stubby'` O'Shaughnessy (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dinky Dinky (Character) - 1935
100% 73% Treasure Island Jim Hawkins (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Peck's Bad Boy Bill Peck (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lone Cowboy Scooter O'Neal (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet 42% The Bowery Swipes McGurk (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Broadway to Hollywood Ted Hackett Jr. (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet When a Feller Needs a Friend Edward Haverford Randall (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Divorce in the Family Terry Parker (Character) - 1932
96% 76% The Champ Dink (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Business Jackie (Character) - 1931
86% 55% Skippy Skippy (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sooky Skippy (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bargain Day Jackie (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Helping Grandma Jackie (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet Schools Out Jackie Cooper (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bear Shooters Jackie (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pups Is Pups Jackie (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet Moan & Groan, Inc. Jackie (Character) - 1929
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Little Rascals: The Best of Pete the Pooch Jackie (Character) - 1923

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jake and the Fatman Director 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Simon & Simon Director 1988-1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cagney & Lacey Director 1987-1988
No Score Yet 95% Magnum, P.I. Director 1987
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Carl Schulman/Neil Fletcher (Guest Star) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapper John, M.D. Director 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet The White Shadow Director 1978-1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Quincy, M.E. Director 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet McMillan and Wife Director 1976-1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rockford Files Capt. Highland (Guest Star),
Director
1975-1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Mary Tyler Moore Show Director 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Police Story John Morrison (Character) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kojak Frank Mulvaney (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet 81% Columbo Nelson Hayward (Guest Star) 1973
No Score Yet 87% M*A*S*H Director 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet McCloud Unknown (Guest Star) 1972
92% 96% The Twilight Zone Jonathan West/Caesar (Character) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Danny Kaye Show Guest 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet I've Got a Secret Guest 1953 1956 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet People's Choice Socrates 'Sock' Miller (Character) 1955-1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet The People's Choice Socrates "Sock" Miller (Character) 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Red Skelton Show Guest 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Studio One Unknown (Character) 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Suspense Unknown (Character) 1951-1952