Chuck Cooper

Chuck Cooper

  • Birthday: 1954-11-08
  • 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).

Filmography

A Crime

2006

As Will

Find Me Guilty

2006

As James Washington

Downtown: A Street Tale

2004

As Sergeant Williams

The Hurricane

1999

As Earl Martin

American Gangster

2007

As Private Doctor

Our Song

2000

As Benjamin

A Vigilante

2019

As Lawyer

Gloria

1999

As Male Guard

Evening

2007

As Ray

Criminal Justice

1990

As Judge Whitney

The Juror

1996

As Stockbroker

Act One: Live from Lincoln Center

2015

As Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes

The Peacemaker

1997

As NYPD Cop

Chapter 27

2007

As Cabbie

Vacation Friends

2021

As Larry

tick, tick... BOOM!

2021

As "Sunday" Legend #1

The Opportunists

2000

As Arnon Morris

Malcolm X

1992

As Customer

North

1994

As Umpire

Action Family

1987

As Cop

Noise

2007

As Judge Gibson

Road Show

0000

As Papa Mizner

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