Chuck Cooper
26 movies · 23 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 8, 1954 (age 71)
- 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
Chuck Cooper: movies and TV shows
Acting (49)
- Upcoming
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021 tick, tick... BOOM!
as "Sunday" Legend #1
- 2021 Vacation Friends
as Larry
- 2020
- 2020
- 2019 The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
as Leonato
- 2019 A Vigilante
as Lawyer
- 2018
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015 Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
as Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
- 2014
- 2014 Romeo and Juliet
as Lord Capulet
- 2013 Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
as Chauncey Eskridge
- 2013
- 2009
- 2009
- 2009
- 2007 Chapter 27
as Cabbie
- 2007 Noise
as Judge Gibson
- 2007 American Gangster
as Private Doctor
- 2007
- 2007 Evening
as Ray
- 2006 A Crime
as Will
- 2006 Find Me Guilty
as James Washington
- 2004 Downtown: A Street Tale
as Sergeant Williams
- 2002
- 2002
- 2001
- 2000 The Opportunists
as Arnon Morris
- 2000 Our Song
as Benjamin
- 1999
- 1999
- 1999 The Hurricane
as Earl Martin
- 1999
- 1999 Gloria
as Male Guard
- 1997 The Peacemaker
as NYPD Cop
- 1996 The Juror
as Stockbroker
- 1995 Sweet Nothing
as Mark the Cop
- 1994
- 1994 North
as Umpire
- 1993
- 1992 Malcolm X
as Customer
- 1990 Law & Order · TV
as Walters' Attorney / Art Samuels / Lester Poole / Rolando August / Drew MacDaniel · 5 episodes
- 1990 Criminal Justice
as Judge Whitney
- 1987 Action Family
as Cop