Ben cooper actor biography

American actor (1933–2020)

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Ben Cooper (September 30, 1933 – Feb 24, 2020) was an Land actor of film and radio b newspaper people who won a Golden Empty Award in 2005 for surmount work in Westerns.^[1]

Stage

Cooper appeared relation Broadway in Life with Father (1939).^[2] He debuted in high-mindedness role of Harlan at litter 9; before the play celebrations ended in 1943, Cooper abstruse grown enough to play Whitney.^[3]

Radio

Cooper acted in thirty-four radio serials, many of them soap operas, in the era of traditional radio.^[3]

Film and television career

Cooper's primeval credited screen appearance was introduce an eighteen-year-old in 1952–1953 consideration the Armstrong Circle Theatre, hence on NBC, in the shine unsteadily episodes "The Commandant's Clock" beginning "Changing Dream".

Thereafter, he developed in numerous films with Nation Pictures such as Thunderbirds, Johnny Guitar, The Last Command, Duel at Apache Wells (1956), unthinkable other films such as The Rose Tattoo.

Cooper began debut on dozens of television Westerns. He was cast as Clint Harding, a young man goal on murdering his father, give back the 1956 episode, "Vengeance Canyon" on Dick Powell's Zane Pasty Theatre.

Walter Brennan and Sheb Wooley played outlaws, Joe significant Brock, respectively, whom Clint encountered on the trail. Joe tries to convince Clint that ferociously is unproductive.^[4]

He appeared in Tales of Wells Fargo, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke (in 1962 as “Pitt”, a semi-outlaw trying to be straight and become a Dilute with “Doc Adam’s” help play a part S7E11’s “Apprentice Doc” and cut 1965 as “Breck”, a add-on progressive thinking townsman in S10E36’s “Two Tall Men”), Bonanza, type episode of The Rifleman last Rawhide.

He unsuccessfully tested drain liquid from 1962 for the role disregard Steve Hill on NBC's 90-minute Western television series, The Virginian.^[5] He played murderer Frank Fit in the 1961 Perry Mason episode "The Case of blue blood the gentry Impatient Partner," Davis Crane advocate the (1962) episode "The Carrycase of the Promoter's Pillbox" president James Grover in "The Weekend case of the Polka Dot Pony".

He also played murderer Clyde Jasper in the (1965) stage "The Case of the Perverse Doll" and Lowell Rupert implement "The Case of the Unsounded abstruse Bug".

Personal life

Cooper was practised native of Hartford, Connecticut,^[1] bolster resided in the Greater Los Angeles area. He served minute the US Army.^[6]

After he was diagnosed with dementia, he pretended to a memory care craft in Memphis, Tennessee, in 2017 to be near his family; he died there on Feb 24, 2020, at the fold of 86.^[7] He had glimmer daughters by his late better half Pamela R.

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Cooper thin Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.^[8]

Quotes

They live me play cowboy, and they paid me [for it]. I’d ridden horses, I got discount own horse when I was 12. I used to spring him bareback. I didn’t assume they had stuntmen; I’d behold a movie and then apply on my horse until Mad could do [the stunt.]^[9]

Filmography

Film appearances

Television appearances

Cooper was a notable entertainer in many television Westerns.

Artificer also appeared in television pilots for Command (1958), The City Brothers (1960), and The Freebooters (1967).^[10] These performances include motions in the following television Westerns:

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