Melville Cooper

from Birmingham, England, UK

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George Melville Cooper (15 October 1896 – 13 March 1973), best known as Melville Cooper, was a British stage, film and television actor. Among his roles are the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, and Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, with Greer Garson.

His stage debut came in Stratford-Upon-Avon at the age of eighteen. In 1934, he moved to the United States, where he was usually cast as ineffectual snobs or crooks. As his film career wound down in the 1950s, he turned to television and back to the stage. He was an early panelist on the American game show I've Got A Secret.

Cooper died in 1973 and was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

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Timeline

1958Aged 62

  • Poster for From the Earth to the Moon

    Bancroft

1957Aged 61

  • Poster for Where's Charley?

    Brassett the Valet

  • Poster for The Story of Mankind

    Major Domo

1956Aged 60

  • Poster for Diane

    1st Court Physician

  • Poster for Around the World in 80 Days

    Mr. Talley

  • Poster for Bundle of Joy

    Adams, the Butler

1955Aged 59

  • Poster for Moonfleet

    Felix Ratsey

  • Poster for The King's Thief

    Henry Wynch

1954Aged 58

1950Aged 54

  • Poster for Father of the Bride

    Mr. Tringle

  • Poster for The Underworld Story

    Major Redford

  • Poster for The Petty Girl

    Beardsley (Petty's butler, aka Uncle Ben)

  • Poster for Let's Dance

    Charles Wagstaffe

1949Aged 53

  • Poster for The Adventure of the Speckled Band

    Dr. John H. Watson

  • Poster for Love Happy

    Lefty Throckmorton

  • Poster for The Red Danube

    Private David Moonlight

  • Poster for And Baby Makes Three

    Gibson

1948Aged 52

  • Poster for Enchantment

    Jeweler

1947Aged 51

  • Poster for 13 Rue Madeleine

    Pappy Simpson

1946Aged 50

  • Poster for Heartbeat

    Roland Latour

  • Poster for The Imperfect Lady

    Lord Montglyn

1943Aged 47

  • Poster for Hit Parade of 1943

    Bradley Cole

  • Poster for Immortal Sergeant

    Pilcher

  • Poster for Holy Matrimony

    Dr. Caswell

  • Poster for My Kingdom for a Cook

    Angus Sheffield

1942Aged 46

  • Poster for This Above All

    Wilbur

  • Poster for The Affairs of Martha

    Dr. Clarence Sommerfield

  • Poster for Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Life Begins at Eight-Thirty

    Barty

  • Poster for Random Harvest

    George

1941Aged 45

  • Poster for The Lady Eve

    Gerald

  • Poster for Scotland Yard

    Dr. Crownfield

  • Poster for The Flame of New Orleans

    Brother-in-Law

  • Poster for You Belong to Me

    Moody

1940Aged 44

  • Poster for Rebecca

    Coroner

  • Poster for Too Many Husbands

    Peter

  • Poster for Escape to Glory

    Ship's Mate Penney

  • Poster for Pride and Prejudice

    Mr. Collins

  • Poster for Murder Over New York

    Herbert 'Snuffy' Fenton

1939Aged 43

  • Poster for I'm from Missouri

    Hearne

  • Poster for Blind Alley

    George Curtis

  • Poster for The Sun Never Sets

    Cosey

  • Poster for Two Bright Boys

    Hilary Harrington

1938Aged 42

  • Poster for Women Are Like That

    Mainwaring

  • Poster for The Adventures of Robin Hood

    High Sheriff of Nottingham

  • Poster for Gold Diggers in Paris

    Pierre aka Fernand LeBrec

  • Poster for Four's a Crowd

    Bingham, Dillingwell's Butler

  • Poster for Garden of the Moon

    Maurice

  • Poster for Hard to Get

    John Case

  • Poster for Comet Over Broadway

    Emerson

  • Poster for Dramatic School

    Boulin

  • Poster for The Dawn Patrol

    Sgt. Watkins

1937Aged 41

  • Poster for The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

    William

  • Poster for Thin Ice

    Krantz

  • Poster for The Great Garrick

    M. W. Picard

  • Poster for Tovarich

    Charles Dupont

1936Aged 40

  • Poster for The Gorgeous Hussy

    Cuthbert

1935Aged 39

  • Poster for The Bishop Misbehaves

    Collins

  • Poster for Rendezvous

    Doorman (uncredited)

1934Aged 38

  • Poster for The Private Life of Don Juan

    Leporello

  • Poster for The Scarlet Pimpernel

    Romney

1933Aged 37

  • Poster for To Brighton with Gladys

    Slingby

  • Poster for Leave It to Me

    Honorable Freddie

1932Aged 36

  • Poster for Two White Arms

    Mack

1931Aged 35

  • Poster for Black Coffee

    Insp. Japp

  • Poster for The Calendar

    Mr. Wayne

1930Aged 34