Chuck Cooper

Birthday: 1954-11-08
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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).

Credits

Year Title Character
Road Show Papa Mizner
After All
2021-11-11 tick, tick... BOOM! "Sunday" Legend #1
2021-08-27 Vacation Friends Larry
2019-11-22 The Public's Much Ado About Nothing Leonato
2019-03-29 A Vigilante Lawyer
2015-11-13 Act One: Live from Lincoln Center Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
2014-02-13 Romeo and Juliet Lord Capulet
2013-10-04 Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight Chauncey Eskridge
2007-11-06 Noise Judge Gibson
2007-11-02 American Gangster Private Doctor
2007-06-09 Evening Ray
2007-01-25 Chapter 27 Cabbie
2006-09-11 A Crime Will
2006-03-16 Find Me Guilty James Washington
2004-11-07 Downtown: A Street Tale Sergeant Williams
2000-05-17 The Opportunists Arnon Morris
2000-01-21 Our Song Benjamin
1999-09-17 The Hurricane Earl Martin
1999-01-22 Gloria Male Guard
1997-09-26 The Peacemaker NYPD Cop
1996-02-02 The Juror Stockbroker
1994-07-22 North Umpire
1992-11-18 Malcolm X Customer
1990-09-08 Criminal Justice Judge Whitney
1987-02-07 Action Family Cop