Chris Cooper
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA — Jul 09 1951
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Biography
Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including American Beauty (1999), October Sky (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove, which became one of the mo…
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Chris Cooper's Credits
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Law & Order
Defense Attorney Roy Payne
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
Miami Vice
Jimmy Yagovitch
The Equalizer
Michael
The Oscars
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
Little Women
Mr. Laurence
Homecoming
Leonard Geist
Cars 3
Smokey (voice)
11.22.63
Al Templeton
The Bourne Identity
Alexander Conklin
American Beauty
Colonel Fitts
The Town
Stephen MacRay
The Patriot
Col. Harry Burwell
The History of Sound
Older Lionel
Lonesome Dove
July Johnson
A Time to Kill
Dwayne Looney
Jarhead
Lt. Col. Kazinski
The Bourne Supremacy
Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
New York, I Love You
Alex
Me, Myself & Irene
Lieutenant Gerke
Demolition
Phil Eastwood
Money Train
Torch
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Jerry Vogel
Syriana
Jimmy Pope
The Muppets
Tex Richman
Seabiscuit
Tom Smith
Where the Wild Things Are
Douglas (voice)
Return to Lonesome Dove
July Johnson
Remember Me
Neil Craig
August: Osage County
Charlie Aiken
This Boy's Life
Roy
October Sky
John Hickam
The Horse Whisperer
Frank Booker
Great Expectations
Joe
Live by Night
Chief Irving Figgis
The Kingdom
Grant Sykes
Boston Strangler
Jack Maclaine
Capote
Alvin Dewey
Adaptation.
John Laroche
The Company You Keep
Daniel Sloan
Breach
Robert Hanssen
Extreme Movie
FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
The Company Men
Phil Woodward
Irresistible
Jack Hastings
Lone Star
Sam Deeds
Matewan
Joe Kenehan
The Tempest
Antonio
Married Life
Harry Allen
Interstate 60
Bob Cody
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Self
Alone
Gus Jr.
Amigo
Col. Hardacre
Everything's Going to Be Great
Walter
Guilty by Suspicion
Larry Nolan
Breast Men
Dr. William Larson
Boys
Mr. John Baker
Silver City
Dickie Pilager
City of Hope
Riggs
Darrow
Eugene Debs
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Self - Narrator (voice)
Teen Choice Awards
Self
It Takes a Lunatic
Self
With/In Volume 2
Fastball
Clifford Blankenship (voice)
Pharaoh's Army
Captain John Hull Abston
With/In Volume 2
(segment "Nuts")
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Charlie
The 24 Hour Woman
Ron Hacksby
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Gary (voice)
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Anthony Blessing
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
Self
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
Self
My House in Umbria
Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
Bad Timing
Eddie
Bed of Lies
Price Daniel, Jr.
To the Moon, Alice
Frank Wiliker
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Ernie Favaro
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Himself (Narrator)
The Deliverance of Elaine
Charlie Skyler
Coming Through the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
In Broad Daylight
Jack Wilson
Henrietta Bulkowski
Danny Wilcox
Them That Work
Self
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
Self
Intelligent Lives
Self
Primo Levi's Journey
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
One More Mountain
Jack Reed
Making Capote: Concept to Script
Self
Unscripted Lives
Production
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (voice)
Light on Broken Glass
Jay