Claude Cooper (actor)

Claude Cooper was an EnglishAmerican character actor on stage, motion pictures, and radio.

Claude Hamilton Cooper was born to a stage manager father and an actress mother in London, England, in 1880. It is said he first appeared upon the stage in the arms of his mother, Mary Stafford Cooper, at the age of eighteen months when the comic opera Castle Grim was performed in Dublin. His family moved to the United States when he was eight, and he soon appeared on the American stage in the melodrama Silver King in 1889. Cooper was active in American stock and repertoire theater with Russ Whytal, Frederick Freeman Proctor, and Charles Dillinghams companies. By the time of his death, he had played five hundred thirty eight character and comedic roles on Broadway. His first big success was in 1903 as the General in Checkers, which ran for three seasons on Broadway and then toured widely.

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