Name
Chuck Cooper
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1954-11-08 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).
Known For
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Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Caro...
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When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a n...
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When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return...
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On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and th...
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The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the peop...
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A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hun...
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Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for wha...
- 2006 A Crime as Will
- 2006 Find Me Guilty as James Washington
- 1987 Action Family as Cop
- 2021 tick, tick... BOOM! as "Sunday" Legend #1
- 2007 Noise as Judge Gibson
- 2004 Downtown: A Street Tale as Sergeant Williams
- 2000 The Opportunists as Arnon Morris
- 1992 Malcolm X as Customer
- 1999 The Hurricane as Earl Martin
- 1994 North as Umpire
- 2007 American Gangster as Private Doctor
- 2014 Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet
- 2000 Our Song as Benjamin
- 2019 A Vigilante as Lawyer
- 1999 Gloria as Male Guard
- 2007 Evening as Ray
- 1990 Criminal Justice as Judge Whitney
- 1996 The Juror as Stockbroker
- 2015 Act One: Live from Lincoln Center as Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
- 2019 The Public's Much Ado About Nothing as Leonato
- 1997 The Peacemaker as NYPD Cop
- 2007 Chapter 27 as Cabbie
- 2021 Vacation Friends as Larry
- Soon After All
- 2013 Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Chauncey Eskridge
- 1995 Sweet Nothing as Mark the Cop
- 1993 NYPD Blue ( 1 episode ) as Bus Driver
- 2018 New Amsterdam ( 1 episode ) as Leon Hargrow
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Walters' Attorney
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Art Samuels
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Lester Poole
- 2007 Gossip Girl ( 2 episodes ) as Horace Rogers
- 2020 Power Book II: Ghost ( 1 episode ) as Reverend Macedon
- 2009 White Collar ( 1 episode ) as Parole Officer
- 1999 Strangers with Candy ( 1 episode ) as Sack Race Referee
- 2017 The Blacklist: Redemption ( 1 episode ) as General Phillips
- 1994 New York Undercover ( 1 episode ) as Sawyer
- 2018 God Friended Me ( 1 episode ) as Larry
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Rolando August
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Tassler
- 2013 House of Cards ( 3 episodes ) as Barney Hull
- 2016 Bull ( 1 episode ) as Judge Elmendorf
- 2002 Hack ( 1 episode ) as Hayden
- 2023 Poker Face ( 1 episode ) as Deuteronomy
- 2002 Without a Trace ( 1 episode ) as Barry's Ex-Boss
- 2020 Little Voice ( 6 episodes ) as Percy
- 2022 The First Lady ( 1 episode ) as Martin Luther King Sr.
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Drew MacDaniel
- 2001 100 Centre Street ( 6 episodes ) as Charlie the Bridgeman
- 2009 The Good Wife ( 1 episode ) as Gerard Gallo
- 1999 Third Watch ( 1 episode ) as Lieutenant Kyle
- 2014 Madam Secretary ( 1 episode ) as Mitch Sarno
- 2009 Nurse Jackie ( 1 episode ) as Intestine Man
