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| Actor Jackie Cooper, from the film School's Out. Hal Roach (producer), Robert F. McGowan (director), film released 22 November 1930, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation / Hal Roach Studios. |
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
U.S. actor Jackie Cooper, who entertained millions as both a child star and an adult, has died at age 88.
Cooper's family says the actor died of old age Wednesday at a California nursing home.
Cooper rose to fame in the early 1930s as a star of the Our Gang comedy series, playing a mischievous blonde-haired boy with a perpetual crush on his schoolteacher, Miss Crabtree.
Our Gang led to bigger parts in feature films, including 1931's Skippy. It was for this role that Cooper made history, becoming, at age nine, the youngest performer ever nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.
After serving in World War II, a grown-up Cooper made a comeback on stage and as the star of two hit television series – The People's Choice, playing a small town politician, and Hennesey, where he portrayed a Navy doctor. He also made a successful return to films, playing newspaper editor Perry White in the Superman series.
Recalling the threat that directors would use to make him cry on camera as a child, Cooper named his popular autobiography Please Don't Shoot My Dog.
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