Jack Cooper

Jack Cooper

Born: January 25, 1890
Died: January 12, 1970
in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK

Movies for Jack Cooper...

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Title: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.
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Mooching Through Georgia
Title: Mooching Through Georgia
Character: Confederate Soldier
Released: August 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Man relates how he outwitted the Yankee army during the Civil War.
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General Spanky
Title: General Spanky
Character: Bit
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
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An All American Toothache
Title: An All American Toothache
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
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The Fatal Glass of Beer
Title: The Fatal Glass of Beer
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
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Midnight Daddies
Title: Midnight Daddies
Character: Lord Rumsberry - Modiste Shop Owner
Released: October 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Midnight Daddies is a black-and-white comedy short.
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The Rodeo
Title: The Rodeo
Character: Helpful Motorist
Released: March 24, 1929
Type: Movie
The film begins with a family at home having a meal. The biggest laugh involved some candles being substituted for asparagus and the hilarity that resulted when the people and dog at them. Later, the decide to go to the rodeo but 1001 problems occur on the way there in the car.
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Taxi Spooks
Title: Taxi Spooks
Character: Dan the Taxi Man
Released: February 16, 1929
Type: Movie
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.
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The Campus Vamp
Title: The Campus Vamp
Character: Handyman
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Love triangle in a campus with a blonde girl that really seems to not consider the "other" girl as an obstacle. Who will make it? And actually who cares when parties, sport games and lots of fun are available?
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Taxi for Two
Title: Taxi for Two
Character: Dan Doolittle
Released: September 2, 1928
Type: Movie
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. But Dan becomes the bane of the foreman's existence, in part because Dan would rather spend his time with Dolly to who he is attracted. But after Dan is asked by the boss to drive Dolly to the taxi depot, Dan believes he can make his millions instead by buying a cab and starting his own taxi company. Interactions with Dolly's visiting brother - a hosiery salesman - who Dan mistakenly believes is Dolly's boyfriend, a pair of inflatable legs, and an angry foreman who was fired because of Dan's mistakes in the garage lead to one misadventure after another for Dan.
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Figures Do Lie
Title: Figures Do Lie
Character: Hamond Egg
Released: April 1, 1928
Type: Movie
A comedy short with Frank Alexander, Jack Cooper & Violet Palmer from the J.R. Bray Studios.
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Crazy to Act
Title: Crazy to Act
Character: Screen Villain
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
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.
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Danger Ahead
Title: Danger Ahead
Character: Relentless Rudolph
Released: October 7, 1926
Type: Movie
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.
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Daily Dozens
Title: Daily Dozens
Character: The Janitor
Released: September 15, 1926
Type: Movie
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.
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Raisin' Trouble
Title: Raisin' Trouble
Character: The Husband
Released: May 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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.
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The Raspberry Romance
Title: The Raspberry Romance
Character: Dick Seymour - Lawyer
Released: March 1, 1925
Type: Movie
The Raspberry Romance is a 1925 comedy short.
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The Wild Goose Chaser
Title: The Wild Goose Chaser
Character: Attorney Harold Raskall
Released: January 17, 1925
Type: Movie
A Mack Sennett slapstick comedy featuring the cross-eyed man Ben Turpin.
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His New Mamma
Title: His New Mamma
Character: The Heiress's Guardian
Released: June 21, 1924
Type: Movie
The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab. Through a fare, he meets a lovely lassie. His work takes him to the beach, where he sees dad's fiancée with another man. The lad and his lassie follow the woman and try to prevent her from marrying yet another rich man. Will our farm boy and his sweetie stop injustice from happening again?
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The Hollywood Kid
Title: The Hollywood Kid
Character: The Cameraman
Released: April 19, 1924
Type: Movie
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
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Scarem Much
Title: Scarem Much
Character: Bert Bermuda - the Rival
Released: March 23, 1924
Type: Movie
Scarem Much is a 1924 comedy short.
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Smile Please
Title: Smile Please
Character: Dudley Somerset - Otto's Rival
Released: March 1, 1924
Type: Movie
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...
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The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Title: The Half-Back of Notre Dame
Character: Charlie Horse
Released: February 24, 1924
Type: Movie
Romance hits a football player when he falls for an aviatrix.
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Picking Peaches
Title: Picking Peaches
Character: Beauty Contest Emcee
Released: February 2, 1924
Type: Movie
A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...
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Flip Flops
Title: Flip Flops
Character: Welland Strong - the Rival
Released: December 2, 1923
Type: Movie
An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.
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A Howling Success
Title: A Howling Success
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
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When Summer Comes
Title: When Summer Comes
Character: The Paleface
Released: September 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.
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Gymnasium Jim
Title: Gymnasium Jim
Character: Man in Top Hat
Released: May 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
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The Duck Hunter
Title: The Duck Hunter
Character: Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1922
Type: Movie
A 1922 comedy short.
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The Heart Snatcher
Title: The Heart Snatcher
Released: March 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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.
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A Schoolhouse Scandal
Title: A Schoolhouse Scandal
Released: December 7, 1919
Type: Movie
A surrealistic stew of airplanes, tornadoes, trick mirrors, and underwater car repair. Footage was recycled for the studios’ 1920 release Hold Me Tight. (MoMA)
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The Yellow Dog Catcher
Title: The Yellow Dog Catcher
Character: The Dogcatcher
Released: October 19, 1919
Type: Movie
The misadventures of a dog catcher
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Are Waitresses Safe?
Title: Are Waitresses Safe?
Character: A Steady Customer
Released: November 18, 1917
Type: Movie
Chaos reigns in Louise Fazenda's kitchen as the cat stalks and consumes the bird in the cuckoo clock and the baby paints its face with jam. In her next job in a restaurant kitchen, Louise scrambles up her powder puff and her biscuits. The cook orders her to lighten them up. She blows them up like balloons, but they come out like rubber balls and so she is bounced out of that job. In her next position as housekeeper to a rich family, she throws a party for her friends when the family goes on vacation and they turn the house topsy-turvy.
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Dangers of a Bride
Title: Dangers of a Bride
Character: The Station Agent
Released: July 8, 1917
Type: Movie
Dangers of a Bride is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Clarence Badger and Bobby Vernon starring Gloria Swanson.
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Sunshine
Title: Sunshine
Released: May 6, 1916
Type: Movie
A 1916 short starring Jack Cooper, Hank Mann & Bobby Dunn.