Melville Cooper
Birthday
1896/10/14
Day of death
1973/03/31 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Birmingham, England, UK
Also know as
George Melville Cooper
Biography
George Melville Cooper (15 October 1896 – 13 March 1973), best known as Melville Cooper, was a British stage, film and television actor. Among his roles are the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, and Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, with Greer Garson. His stage debut came in Stratford-Upon-Avon at the age of eighteen. In 1934, he moved to the United States, where he was usually cast as ineffectual snobs or crooks. As his film career wound do...Read more
Acting
(1941) The Lady Eve
as Gerald
(1956) Around the World in Eighty Days
as Mr. Talley
(1938) The Adventures of Robin Hood
as High Sheriff of Nottingham
(1954) It Should Happen to You
as Guest Panelist
(1950) Father of the Bride
as Mr. Tringle
(1931) Black Coffee
as Insp. Japp
(1942) Random Harvest
as George
(1949) Love Happy
as Lefty Throckmorton
(1950) The Underworld Story
as Major Redford
(1939) Blind Alley
as George Curtis
(1949) The Red Danube
as Private David Moonlight
(1946) Heartbeat
as Roland Latour
(1955) Moonfleet
as Felix Ratsey
(1956) Diane
as 1st Court Physician
(1957) The Story of Mankind
as Major Domo
(1956) Bundle of Joy
as Adams, the Butler
(1937) Tovarich
as Charles Dupont
(1941) The Flame of New Orleans
as Brother-in-Law
(1937) Thin Ice
as Krantz
(1958) From the Earth to the Moon
as Bancroft
(1940) Murder Over New York
as Herbert 'Snuffy' Fenton
(1934) The Private Life of Don Juan
as Leporello
(1938) The Dawn Patrol
as Sgt. Watkins
(1938) Four's a Crowd
as Bingham, Dillingwell's Butler
(1947) 13 Rue Madeleine
as Pappy Simpson
(1941) You Belong to Me
as Moody
(1935) Rendezvous
as Doorman (uncredited)
(1940) Too Many Husbands
as Peter
(1955) The King's Thief
as Henry Wynch
(1936) The Gorgeous Hussy
as Cuthbert
(1950) The Petty Girl
as Beardsley (Petty's butler, aka Uncle Ben)
(1938) Gold Diggers in Paris
as Pierre aka Fernand LeBrec
(1937) The Great Garrick
as M. W. Picard
(1943) Holy Matrimony
as Dr. Caswell
(1949) And Baby Makes Three
as Gibson
(1938) Garden of the Moon
as Maurice
(1938) Dramatic School
as Boulin
(1946) The Imperfect Lady
as Lord Montglyn
(1939) The Sun Never Sets
as Cosey
(1942) The Affairs of Martha
as Dr. Clarence Sommerfield
(1938) Hard to Get
as John Case
(1938) Women Are Like That
as Mainwaring
(1938) Comet Over Broadway
as Emerson
(1950) Let's Dance
as Charles Wagstaffe
(1942) Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
as Barty
(1949) The Adventure of the Speckled Band
as Dr. John H. Watson
(1954) The General's Boots
as Mr. Burnham
(1942) This Above All
as Wilbur
(1943) Immortal Sergeant
as Pilcher
(1943) Hit Parade of 1943
as Bradley Cole
(1941) Scotland Yard
as Dr. Crownfield
(1940) Rebecca
as Coroner
(1939) I'm from Missouri
as Hearne
(1940) Pride and Prejudice
as Mr. Collins
(1935) The Bishop Misbehaves
as Collins
(1940) Escape to Glory
as Ship's Mate Penney
(1930) All Riot on the Western Front
as ---
(1931) The Calendar
as Mr. Wayne
(1932) Two White Arms
as Mack
(1943) My Kingdom for a Cook
as Angus Sheffield
(1948) Enchantment
as Jeweler
(1942) Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
as ---
(1934) The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Romney
(1939) Two Bright Boys
as Hilary Harrington
(1937) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
as William
(1933) Leave It to Me
as Honorable Freddie
(1933) To Brighton with Gladys
as Slingby
(1953) The Fabulous Oliver Chantry
as Martin
(1948) Studio One
as Nilghai
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mullet
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Watts
(1956) West Point
as ---
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Mr. Burnham
(1954) Climax!
as ---
(1950) Robert Montgomery Presents
as ---
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Flaky
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mullet / Pat Lummock
(1952) I've Got a Secret
as ---
(1958) Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Binky