Garry Cooper

Acting

Born June 2, 1955, Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK

Hull born Garry Cooper is an actor who came to fame playing Peter, the flash boyfriend of Leslie Ash and rival to Phil Daniels' wannabe mod in cult 1979 hit Quadrophenia. Other film credits include Michael Radford's big screen adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, My Beautiful Launderette, Prick Up Your Ears and Derek Jarman's Caravaggio. TV credits include The Vice, The Bill, Soldier Soldier and Zen.

Filmography

• 2025H Is for Hawk — Charlie
• I Fought the Law — Lord Justice Harry Ognall
• 2025The Thing with Feathers — Keith
• Better — Peter 'Bulgey' Donovan
• 2023The Pigeon Tunnel — Ronnie Cornwell
• House of the Dragon — Ryam Redwyne
• The Sandman — King Hades
• Landscapers — Lancing's Dad (voice)
• Gangs of London — John Harks
• 2013Henry VI, Part 2: The Houses of York and Lancaster — Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
• 2013Henry VI: Harry The Sixth — Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
• Vera — Cliff Cringle
• Zen — Angelo
• 2010Bibliothèque Pascal — The Professor
• 2010Universal Soldier: Regeneration — Doctor Porter
• 2009Broadside: Emerging Empires Collide — Tromp
• 2009Dead Man Running — Faceless Man
• 2006The Harvest
• 2005Hiroshima — Groves
• Charles II: The Power and The Passion — General Monck
• In a Land of Plenty — Stanley
• Murder in Mind — DI Frank Slater
• At Home with the Braithwaites — Colin Skidmore
• Always and Everyone — Tommy Aherne
• The Vice — Supt Jeff Callard
• 1997Breakout — Andy Cresswell
• 1997Hostile Waters — Gennady
• Midsomer Murders — James Griss
• 1997Paul: The Emissary — Saul / Paul
• 1997The Fix — Skipper
• 1996Beautiful Thing — Ronnie Pearce
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Frostrick
• 1996The Writing on the Wall — Fred
• Against All Odds — Tony Cheatle
• 1994Jacob — Kanaaniter # 1
• Peak Practice — Alan Davis
• 1992An Ungentlemanly Act — Colour Sgt Muir
• Heartbeat — Arthur Jacobs, Len Brown
• Wilderness Edge — Peter Kingham
• 1991London Kills Me — Mr. G.
• Soldier Soldier — RMP Sergeant, Sgt, RMP, RMP Duty Sergeant
• The Darling Buds of May — George
• 1990Mountains of the Moon — Stroyan
• Perfect Scoundrels — Marty Hampton
• The Chief — DS Thurlow
• 1987Prick Up Your Ears — Actor 1 – Mr Sloane
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries — Sergeant Holt
• 1986Caravaggio — Davide
• Casualty — Han Dybendak, Dominic 'Dom' Pearson
• Lovejoy — Kevin the Ponce
• 1985A Crack in the Ice — 2nd Guard
• Dempsey and Makepeace — Swabey
• 1985My Beautiful Laundrette — Squatter
• 1984Nineteen Eighty-Four — Guard
• 1982P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang — Tommy
• 1981Going Gently — Orderly
• 1980Looking for Vicky — Red
• 1979Degree of Uncertainty — Billy
• 1979Ploughman's Share — Young Chas
• 1979Quadrophenia — Peter
• Rumpole of the Bailey — Michael Mathieson
• Playhouse — Orderly
• Play for Today — Billy
• ITV Playhouse — Red