Charles Cooper
Acting · Production
Born August 11, 1926, San Francisco, California, USA
Charles Darwin Cooper was an American actor who has played a wide variety of television and film roles for more than a half century from 1950 to 2001. On Broadway, Cooper appeared in The Winner (1954) and All You Need Is One Good Break (1950). In 1958, Cooper played the outlaw Tate Masters in the episode "Twelve Guns" of NBC's western television series Cimarron City with George Montgomery and John Smith. In 1959, he played a gunfighter, Jack Rollins, in the episode "The Visitor" of Lawman, an ABC/Warner Brothers Television western series. He was cast as Matt Yordy in the 1961 episode "Honest Abe" of Chuck Connors' The Rifleman. Cooper made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Philip Strague in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Buried Clock." His final appearance in 1962 was as Ben Willoughby in "The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal." Cooper is perhaps best remembered for his appearances in Star Trek related roles. He played the Klingon Chancellor K'mpec in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Sins of the Father" and "Reunion" and the Klingon General Korrd in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. His other film roles included appearances in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man (1956), A Dog's Best Friend (1959), the comedy Valet Girls (1987), and the action film Blind Fury (1989) starring Rutger Hauer.
Filmography
- 2022The Wedding Veil Unveiled — Producer
- 2020Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas — Producer
- The Practice — Judge Robert Boucher
- 1995Huntress: Spirit of the Night — Ty Bodi
- 1995Panther — Sheriff
- 1995Vamps: Deadly Dreamgirls — Max
- 1989Blind Fury — Cobb
- 1989Star Trek V: The Final Frontier — Gen. Korrd
- 1989Twice Under — Sgt. Fitz
- Star Trek: The Next Generation — K'mpec
- 1987Valet Girls — Victor Smegmite
- Hardcastle and McCormick
- 1982Two of a Kind — Bus Driver
- Father Murphy
- 1981The Five of Me — Deputy Sheriff
- 1980Angel on My Shoulder — Matt
- Dallas — Curley Morrison
- 1978Rabbit Test — Second Presidential Aide
- CHiPs — Trucker
- 1977The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver — Mr. Logan
- 1975Conspiracy of Terror — Irate Driver
- Police Woman — the Chairman
- The Rockford Files — Jack
- 1969The Big Bounce — Senator
- 1963FBI Code 98 — Special Agent Bernard Lyons
- 1961Gun Fight — Cole Fender
- The Case of the Dangerous Robin — Anthony McCord
- 1959A Dog's Best Friend — Deputy Sheriff Bill Beamer
- Bonanza — Gil Fenton
- Johnny Ringo — Slim Pardee
- The Third Man — Count Alex Steka
- The Rifleman — Rudy Croft
- The Texan — Dan Philips, Walt Carlin
- Wanted: Dead or Alive — Frank Kreager
- Maverick — Phillip Stanton, Claude Rogan
- Perry Mason — Ben Willoughby
- Sugarfoot — Wesley Jerome Lloyd
- Trackdown — Matt Turley (uncredited)
- Wagon Train — Lieutenant Quincy Abbott
- 1956The Wrong Man — Matthews
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Bernard K. Froy
- Gunsmoke — Cando, Jim Box