Ralph Cooper
Highest Rated: 63% The Duke Is Tops (1938)
Lowest Rated: 63% The Duke Is Tops (1938)
Birthday: Jan 16, 1908
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Best known for founding (in 1934) and emceeing the Amateur Night at the historic Apollo Theater, where talents such as Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday received early exposure. Cooper also played supporting roles in Hollywood features such as Josef von Sternberg's "Blonde Venus" (1932), Henry King's "Lloyd's of London" (1936) and Irving Cummings' "White Hunter" (1936), and choreographed Cummings' Shirley Temple vehicle, "Poor Little Rich Girl" (1936).
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Ralph Cooper
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gang War | Bob "Killer" Meade (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Am I Guilty? | Dr. James Dunbar (Character) | - | 1940 |
63% |
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The Duke Is Tops | Duke Davis (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gangsters on the Loose | Unknown (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dark Manhattan |
Curly Thorpe (Character), Producer |
- | 1937 |