Charles Cooper

Biography

Charles Darwin Cooper was an American actor who has played a wide variety of television and film roles for more than a half century from 1950 to 2001. On Broadway, Cooper appeared in The Winner (1954) and All You Need Is One Good Break (1950). In 1958, Cooper played the outlaw Tate Masters in the episode "Twelve Guns" of NBC's western television series Cimarron City with George Montgomery and John Smith. In 1959, he played a gunfighter, Jack Rollins, in the episode "The Visitor" of Lawman, an ABC/Warner Brothers Television western series. He was cast as Matt Yordy in the 1961 episode "Honest Abe" of Chuck Connors' The Rifleman. Cooper made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Philip Strague in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Buried Clock." His final appearance in 1962 was as Ben Willoughby in "The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal." Cooper is perhaps best remembered for his appearances in Star Trek related roles. He played the Klingon Chancellor K'mpec in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Sins of the Father" and "Reunion" and the Klingon General Korrd in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. His other film roles included appearances in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man (1956), A Dog's Best Friend (1959), the comedy Valet Girls (1987), and the action film Blind Fury (1989) starring Rutger Hauer.

Most Known For

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as K'mpec

Perry Mason

as Ben Willoughby

Bonanza

as Gil Fenton

Dallas

as Curley Morrison

The Practice

as Judge Robert Boucher

The Rockford Files

as Jack

The Rifleman

The Rifleman

as Rudy Croft

Wagon Train

as Lieutenant Quincy Abbott

Maverick

as Phillip Stanton

Maverick

as Claude Rogan

Police Woman

as the Chairman

Gunsmoke

as Cando

Gunsmoke

as Jim Box

Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Frank Kreager

The Texan

as Dan Philips

The Texan

as Walt Carlin

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Bernard K. Froy

Trackdown

as Matt Turley (uncredited)

Sugarfoot

as Wesley Jerome Lloyd