Jackie Cooper

Jackie Cooper

Date of Birth: 15 Sep 1922

Country: USA

Biography: Nephew of director Norman Taurog and writer Jack Leonard. Until 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes was nominated for Best Actress in 2004, he was the only actor to earn a Best Actor/Actress nomination for an Academy Award before his/her 18th birthday. Seventeen other actors have earned Oscar nominations as children, but all except Keisha were in the supporting categories.

Total Credits at Criticker: 72 (Actor), 9 (Director)

Biography last updated by Dunstan-xxx, and picture by Gauntlet

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    Superman: The Movie
    An adventure re-told, spanning the Man of Steel's life from his Krypton infancy and Midwest boyhood to his career as Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent (Reeve) and through his titanic struggle with archnemesis Lex Luthor (Hackman). (Warner Bros.)
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    Superman II
    Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to marry Lois, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth. (imdb)
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    Superman III
    Synthetic kryptonite laced with tobacco tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel. (imdb)
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    Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
    The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man. (imdb)
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    Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
    In Richard Donner's original vision of Superman II, the Man of Steel faces his greatest challenge yet! Three villainous outcasts, Non, Ursa, and their leader, General Zod, are freed from the Phantom Zone only to wreak havoc, devastation, and chaos unto Earth... (imdb)
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    Surrender
    A wealthy writer who has had terrible experiences with money-hungry girlfriends & ex-wives pretends to be a broke, washed-up novelist to see if the woman he loves wants him for himself or just for his money. (imdb)
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    The Champ
    Dink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy "Champ" Purcell, despite his frequent binges, his frequent gambling and their squalid living conditions. And there's nothing Andy wouldn't do for Dink. When Andy wins a race horse gambling, he gives it to Dink and they race it at a Tijuana track. There, Dink meets Linda Carleton... (imdb)
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    The Return of Frank James
    Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse. (IMDb)
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    Treasure Island
    Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. (imdb)
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    Ziegfeld Girl
    Three young women are discovered by legendary producer Florenz Ziegfeld. Their lives are changed forever.
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    Columbo
    Columbo (1971) - TV Series
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    Skippy
    In this film based on the popular comic strip, Skippy interrupts his usual routine of finding loopholes in his parents' rules when he makes friends with Sooky, a boy from the other side of the tracks. (imdb)
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    Chosen Survivors
    After a devastating global nuclear holocaust, a carefully selected group of 11 citizens are sent deep into the bowels of the Earth, where they will remain until it is safe to return to the surface and start re-populating the world. But something else is lurking in this subterranean refuge... a deadly, rampaging force of inhuman terror that won't stop until it has exterminated them all, one by one!
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    Pups Is Pups
    Pups Is Pups (1930) - Short Film
    The gang decides to enter their animals in a local pet show. (imdb)
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    The Astronaut
    Government officials, not wanting to have the space program canceled, substitute a lookalike for an astronaut who died on a Mars mission. (imdb)
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    The Day the Earth Moved
    A team taking aerial photographs of the desert deduces that an earthquake is about to strike a nearby town, but nobody in the town believes them. (imdb)
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    That Certain Age
    Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do (imdb)
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    The Bowery
    "In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous." The scene opens in a saloon named "Nigger Joe's" (imdb)
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    What a Life
    In the first Henry Aldrich film, Henry (Jackie Cooper) is falsely accused of making trouble at school. He must clear himself. (imdb)
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    Life with Henry
    Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska. (imdb)
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    White Banners
    A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become. (imdb)
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    The Devil Is a Sissy
    A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school. (imdb)
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    The Navy Comes Through
    A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis. (imdb)
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    Broadway to Hollywood
    Three generations of vaudevillians fight for stardom on stage and screen. (TCM.com)
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    Streets of New York
    Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous obstacles, opportunities and temptations, but through it all, he considers the actions of his hero, Abraham Lincoln, for guidance. Will Jimmy see his dreams come true, or will he be another of the countless hopefuls chewed up and spit out by New York's mean streets? (imdb)
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    Journey Into Fear
    This remake of the Orson Welles film stars Sam Waterston as a researcher who finds himself entangled in intrigue and danger in Turkey. (allmovie.com)
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    Gallant Sons
    Though its title suggests a war picture of some sort, MGM's Gallant Sons actually concerns the efforts of a group of kids to solve a murder. Young Johnny Davis (Gene Reynolds) is beside himself when his gambler father (Ian Hunter) is arrested for murder. In truth, Davis' pop is shielding several other people, whose reputations might have been ruined during his trial. (allrovi.com)
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    Syncopation
    Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer, from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues. (imdb)
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    Maybe I\
    Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process (imdb)
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    Men of Texas
    Surprisingly little known, Universal's Men of Texas boasts an impressive cast and a fairly exciting and complex storyline. Set just after the Civil War, the film stars Robert Stack as Chicago war correspondent Barry Conovan, who is sent by his newspaper to Texas to get the low-down on the martial law that has been imposed on the state. (allrovi.com)
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    The Love Machine
    An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion. (imdb)
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    The Big Guy
    A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty. (imdb)
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    Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
    Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out. (imdb)
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    Love Business
    Love Business (1931) - Short Film
    Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house. (imdb)
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    The Christmas Party
    Jackie wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team, but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM decide to help him out. (imdb)
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    Bargain Day
    Bargain Day (1931) - Short Film
    Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl. (imdb)
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    Helping Grandma
    Helping Grandma (1931) - Short Film
    The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out. (imdb)
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    A Tough Winter
    A Tough Winter (1930) - Short Film
    The gang creates a huge mess after they get into a taffy-pulling contest. (imdb)
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    Bear Shooters
    The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to try and scare them off with a gorilla suit but the gang decides to try and capture the gorilla instead. (imdb)
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    School\
    School's Out (1930) - Short Film
    The kids mistake Miss Crabtree's brother for a potential boyfriend, and plot to discourage him. (imdb)
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    The First Seven Years
    Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann. (imdb)
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    Teacher\
    Teacher's Pet (1930) - Short Film
    Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher. (imdb)
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    Peck\
    Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble. (imdb)
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    Boxing Gloves
    Boxing Gloves (1929) - Short Film
    Harry and Farina promote a boxing match between Joe and Chubby. (imdb)
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    Bouncing Babies
    Bouncing Babies (1929) - Short Film
    With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back. (imdb)
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    Boy of the Streets
    Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative. (imdb)
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    Dinky
    Mrs. Daniels has been framed on a fraud charge and sent to prison. By bundling her son, Dinky, off to military school, she is able to keep her shame a secret from him. Upon learning the truth, our young hero voluntarily pulls out of the school and takes up residence in an orphanage. But now it's his turn to hide the truth from his mother, by pretending via correspondence that he's still a cadet in good standing. (imdb)
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    Everything\
    Two sailors sneak a talking duck on board their ship. Complications ensue. (imdb)
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    Moan & Groan, Inc.
    The gang ignores the warning of a local cop and goes exploring in a haunted house. (imdb)
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    French Leave
    Merchant seaman Skithch Kilroy and "Pappy" Reagan arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for Mimi. But they are ordered by their skipper Muldoon to remain on board and guard against theft of foodstuffs by a black market gang.They are lured from the ship by Simone, while the gang she works for steals the shipment. Skitch and Pappy set out to break up the gang, but first decide to visit Mimi at her apartment. (imdb)
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    Gangster\
    A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his father is a former bootlegger. (imdb)
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    Glamour Boy
    Marathon Pictures is stuck with Billy Doran, Whiz Quiz radio show star but a flop in Hollywood. Ex-child star Tiny Barlow suggests that the studio remake "Skippy", the film that made him famous, with himself as coach for little Billy. A. J. Colder, Marathon's Mighty Mogul, agrees. Joan Winslow, a contract player who has never had a part, is picked to replace balky Brenda Lee in Marathon's monster musical of the year. Tiny poses as a big shot and takes credit for getting Joan the role. (imdb)
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    Kilroy Was Here
    "Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name. (imdb)
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    Newsboys\
    A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys. (imdb)
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    Shadow on the Land
    Underground fighters versus totalitarian federal government in near future USA.
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    Divorce in the Family
    Divorced Ethnologist John Parker loves his two boys, Al and Terry, and misses them terribly when they have to leave his archaeological dig at the end of the summer. While Al goes to military school, Terry returns home and learns that his mother, Grace, has married Dr. Phil Shumaker, a stable man who can provide the home that Grace never had with John. When John gets a note from Terry saying that Grace has married and he wishes he were dead, John decides to give up his work and go to his sons. (imdb)
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    O\
    A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
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    Shivering Shakespeare
    The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis? (1924). Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences. (imdb)
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    Rodeo Dough
    Rodeo Dough (1940) - Short Film
    After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star filled rodeo.
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    Young Donovan\
    A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children. (imdb)
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    When a Feller Needs a Friend
    Eddie wears a leg brace and his mother will not let him play like the other boys. His hope is that a German doctor will be able to operate and fix his leg. When his cousin Froggie comes to live with his family, he is nice to Mr. and Mrs. Randall, but mean to Eddie. Uncle Jonas sees what is happening, but Eddie's parents do not believe him as Froggie seems so nice.
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    When the Wind Blows
    The kids foil a burglary. (imdb)
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    Where Are Your Children?
    A teenager is accused of murdering a gas station owner.
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    Her First Beau
    15-year-old Penelope (Penny) Wood has two great interests - Chuck Harris and the hope that some day she might become a famous,great writer. Chuck also has two interests - his home-made glider and the hope that some day he will go to Tech college. His indifference to Penny is her chief source of annoyance. Mervyn Roberts, Penny's uncle who is only five years older than she is, arrives home with a guest, Roger Van Vleck, and Penny falls for Roger's sophistication.
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    Scouts to the Rescue
    Eagle Scout Bruce Scott, leader of Martinsville Troop Number One, and his pack setting off in search of lost treasure, using a map provided by Tenderfoot scout Skeets Scanlon Scoutmaster Hale leaves the expedition to rush home to an ailing wife, but Bruce and the scouts push on and the map leads them to "Ghost Town", where the treasure turns out to be a large cache of counterfeit $20 bills and the plates used to print them.
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    Seventeen
    Willy Baxter is now 17, which is practically 18, so he prefers "William". William is supposed to be studying for college entrance exams, but a sophisticated Chicago girl arrives in town. She's the cat's meow with her singing, dancing, and big city catchphrases. "But definitely!" William doesn't have any money and his old jalopy won't impress anybody. His allowance is already up to $1 and his baby sister won't lend him any money from her piggy bank.
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    Tough Guy
    An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.
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    The Spirit of Culver
    Tom Allen, the son of a decorated war hero who is feared to have died in battle, wins a scholarship to the Culver military academy. His arrogance and unwillingness to comply with the academy's strict rules soon gets him in trouble, but through the help of his roommate he gets by.
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    Sooky
    Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The Boone Boys, a boys' club that costs thirty dollars to join and has uniforms that Sooky admires, refuses to admit him because he is poor. Sooky and Skippy form their own club called the Beagle Boys.
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    Stork Bites Man
    Ernie (Jackie Cooper), manager of an apartment house that allows no children, finds himself evicted when his wife, Peg (Meg Randall as Gene Roberts), becomes pregnant. With the help of an imaginary stork and a large department store, he institutes a boycott against the apartment house.
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    The Twilight Zone
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    Two Bright Boys
    Fatherless Rory O'Donnell (Jackie Cooper) inherits a valuable piece of land in Texas which he is not yet capable of handing on his own. Bill Hattlet (Alan Dinehart), an unscrupulous oil man can't wait to appropriate the land for himself, but is prevented from doing so by the intervention of Hilary Harrington (Melville Cooper) and his son David (Freddie Bartlolomew).
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