Melville Cooper

Melville Cooper

George Melville Cooper

Birth Date

10/14/1896 (Age 76)

Birth Place

Birmingham, England, UK

Death Date

3/31/1973

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George Melville Cooper (15 October 1896 – 13 March 1973), best known as Melville Cooper, was a British stage, film and television actor. Among his roles are the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, and Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, with Greer Garson. His stage debut came in Stratford-Upon-Avon at the age of eighteen. In 1934, he moved to the United States, where he was usually cast as ineffectual snobs or crooks. As his film career wound down in the 1950s, he turned to television and back to the stage. He was an early panelist on the American game show I've Got A Secret. Cooper died in 1973 and was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia arti...

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Acting

Gender

Male

Total Credits

17

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Coroner

High Sheriff of Nottingham

Gerald

Mr. Talley

Mr. Tringle

Sgt. Watkins

Frequent Collaborators

Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn

2 films together

Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges

2 films together

Seton I. Miller

Seton I. Miller

2 films together

Edmund Goulding

Edmund Goulding

1 film together

Fred MacMurray

Fred MacMurray

1 film together

Wesley Ruggles

Wesley Ruggles

1 film together

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