Chuck Cooper
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
ActingBirthday
November 8, 1954Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
23Place of birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USACast credits
A Crime
WillFind Me Guilty
James WashingtonDowntown: A Street Tale
Sergeant WilliamsThe Hurricane
Earl MartinAmerican Gangster
Private DoctorOur Song
BenjaminA Vigilante
LawyerGloria
Male GuardEvening
RayCriminal Justice
Judge WhitneyThe Juror
StockbrokerAct One: Live from Lincoln Center
Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston HughesThe Public's Much Ado About Nothing
LeonatoThe Peacemaker
NYPD CopChapter 27
CabbieVacation Friends
Larrytick, tick... BOOM!
"Sunday" Legend #1The Opportunists
Arnon MorrisMalcolm X
CustomerNorth
UmpireAction Family
Cop