Jack Cooper

Jack Cooper
Total Credits at Criticker: 26 (Actor)
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Smile Please
Smile Please (1924) - Short Film
Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset. First our hero must do a few heroic things, saving the lass from danger. He must also not move too quickly on the romantic front. Once she's willing to marry him, he must balance the duties of groom with that of sheriff, while Dudley tries to convince the lass that our hero is untrue to her... (imdb)
Oh, What a Knight
A slapstick comedy featuring Mack Swain. (imdb)
Roars and Uproars
The heroine must marry one of three prospective bridegrooms who are all lunatics with odd fake facial hair to inherit $500,000. When one of the spurned bridegrooms releases a bunch of lions to disrupt the ceremony, the result is a lot of ROARS AND UPROARS. Will love triumph, or will the lions mess everything up? (imdb)
The Wild Goose Chaser
A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin. (imdb)
Danger Ahead
Danger Ahead (1926) - Short Film
Greedy, Unscrupulous Rudolph learns that Belinda has just inherited $10,000, and he decides to steal it from her. He and his henchmen arrive at her house just as the money is being delivered. Meanwhile, Hairbreadth Harry observes the whole scene, and he hides the money for Belinda. But while Rudolph keeps Harry and Belinda occupied, his henchmen are already going about the job of stealing the money. (imdb)
Lonesome Babies
A comedy short with Jack Cooper done by J.R. Bray Studios. (imdb)
Figures Do Lie
A comedy short with Frank Alexander, Jack Cooper & Violet Palmer from the J.R. Bray Studios. (imdb)
Taxi Spooks
Taxi Spooks (1929) - Short Film
Jack Cooper has a taxi inspector on his heels, and later confuses the inspector's wife for a theater automaton. Each section is highlighted by a major set piece of a gag and they are well done. (imdb)
Taxi Dolls
Taxi Dolls (1929) - Short Film
"Taxi Dolls" is about robots that are incredibly lifelike. One wanders off to a taxi and the inventor retrieves it. Due to a mix-up a real woman is mistaken for one of these weird automatons and hilarity does NOT ensue. (imdb)
Raisin\
This silent comedy short stars Jack Cooper--not to be confused with the child actor, Jackie Cooper. Cooper and his friend are making a batch of homemade beer--something illegal during the days of Prohibition. However, the bottles are poorly made so Jack has to get some more. Later, after the new bottles arrive, the cops come to the door. (imdb)
Just Another Murder
A Mack Sennett directed spoof of murder mysteries. (imdb)
Daily Dozens
Daily Dozens (1926) - Short Film
The "Joybell Players" consisting of Jack Cooper, Ethelyn Gibson and Jack Richardson star in this very funny comedy from writer/director Robert Tansey. Producer Billy West was himself a silent film comedian, and was the best-known and most successful Charlie Chaplin imitator.
The Hollywood Kid
THE HOLLYWOOD KID (1924, Sennett, D: Roy Del Ruth) A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws! With appearances by Mack Sennett, Andy Clyde, Vernon Dent, Ben Turpin, Marie Prevost, Billy Bevan, Charlie Murray, a dozen bathing beauties and a toothless lion! The most fun in this comedy was seeing all of the behind the scenes shots of the studio as it really was and all as part of the frenetic plot.
Crazy to Act
Crazy to Act (1927) - Short Film
Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his latest film. Ethel is in love with Arthur Young, the hero of Bagley's lastest movie. Work on the film starts, and at the preview screening is shown to be disasterous. Ethel then goes away with Arthur, while Gordon runs on a rotating movie set. (imdb)
The Heart Snatcher
A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.
Mooching Through Georgia
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War. (imdb)
Taxi for Two
Taxi for Two (1928) - Short Film
Dan Doolittle is a poor schmuck whose big talk usually gets him into trouble. After he is fired from his plumbing job, he saves Dolly Davis, who, grateful, promises to get him a job at the company where she works, Owl Taxi, which is owned by her father. That job is as the jack-of-all-trades in the garage, under the supervision of the garage foreman, whose job he expects to have within the week. (imdb)
Midnight Daddies
A man wins a dance contest at a cabaret, but his wife hears it on the radio and decides to get back at him.
The New Aunt
The New Aunt (1929) - Short Film
28th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.
His Hidden Purpose
The movie starts out with Marie as The Girl in the Case in love with Neal Burns, "Her Sweetheart." But her dad wants her to marry someone else (Chester Conklin) and takes her away on vacation to get her away from Her Sweetheart. He follows them, disguised as a widow.
Flip Flops
An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.
The Half-Back of Notre Dame
At football-mad Castoria College, Charlie Horse and Phil McCavity are two of the football team's players. Through sheer luck, they manage to lead their team to victory in the last game before graduation. Following graduation, Alma Matter, a pretty coed to who Phil is attracted, holds a reunion party at her parent's house. Alma has become an aviatrix and wants Charlie's help in getting her plane ready for a flight, as he has become a blacksmith who has supposed expertise in mechanics.
A Yankee Doodle Duke
Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.
The Yellow Dog Catcher
The misadventures of a dog catcher.
A Truthful Liar
Alfalfa Doolittle journeys to Washington to take his "seat" in the house. When he returns after a visit to King George, Alfalfa is relating the incidents of the visit to the folks back home when someone voices a doubt as to the truth of the story. Alfalfa tries to confirm it by calling upon the house to fall in upon him if he is telling a lie. The house takes him at his word and there's a crash. Then Alfalfa admits that he may have "exaggerated a little.
Rodeo Rhythm
Fred Scott tries to keep crooks from taking over his sister's orphanage.