RIP Charles Cooper

 
Los Angeles Times
By Staff
January 9, 2014
 
Charles Cooper, 87, died November 29, 2013. He had a 50 year career as a thespian known for "I am a Camera”, “The Detective Story”, and “Mr. Roberts;" featured in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man," remembered for Star Trek movies. Met his wife of 52 years, Pamela Searle, at the Miss Universe Pageant, as Miss England. Charles is survived by his wife, daughters Allison Meinert, Stephanie Cooper, son Chris Cooper, and grand kids: Dakota, Daly, Savy Meinert.


COOPER, Charles (Charles Darwin Cooper)
Born: 8/11/1926, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Died: 11/29/2013, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
 
Charles Cooper’s westerns – actor:
Mr. I. Magination (TV) - 1952
Sugarfoot (TV) – 1958 (Wesley Jerome Lloyd)
Tancy Derringer (TV) – 1958 (Harmon Steele)
Cimarron City (TV) – 1958 (Tate Masters)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV) – 1958 (Frank Kraeger)
Gunsmoke (TV) – 1958, 1959 (Jim Box, Cando)
Maverick (TV) – 1958, 1959 (Captain Ronald Berger, Claude Rogan, Philip Stanton)
Tales of Wells Fargo (TV) – 1958, 1960 (Sonny, Lieutenant Rath)
Colt .45 (TV) – 1958, 1960 (Sheriff Jed Dailey)
The Rifeleman (TV) – 1958, 1961, 1962 (Larsen, Matt Yordy, Rudy Croft, Hank Fulton)
Wagon Train (TV) – 1959 (Lieutenant Quincy Abbott)
Lawman (TV) – 1959 (Jack Rollins)
The Restless Gun (TV) – 1959 (Hode Emory, Boyd Lively)
Bonanza (TV) – 1959 (Gil Fenton)
Bronco (TV) – 1959, 1960 (Wild Bill Hickok, Frank Stover)
The Texan (TV) – 1959, 1960 (Steve Murrow, Dan Philips, Walt Carlin)
The Deputy (TV) – 1960 (Con Marlowe)
Johnny Ringo (TV) – 1960 (Slim Pardee)
Riverboat (TV) – 1960 (Major Luke Daniels)
Gunfight – 1961 (Cole Fender)
Death Valley Days (TV) – 1963, 1964, 1966 (Buchanan, Mac Crellish, Carter Johnson, Gillespie)
Little House on the Prairie (TV) – 1978 (constable)
Father Murphy (TV) – 1981, 1982 (Sheriff)