
Charles Cooper
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 Alfre…
Acting
- 1997The PracticeJudge Robert Boucher5 ep.
- 1987Star Trek: The Next GenerationK'mpec2 ep.
- 1983Hardcastle and McCormick1 ep.
- 1981Father Murphy35 ep.
- 1960The Case of the Dangerous RobinAnthony McCord1 ep.
- 1959Johnny RingoSlim Pardee1 ep.
- 1959The Third ManCount Alex Steka1 ep.
- 1958The Rifleman4 ep.
- 1958The TexanWalt Carlin2 ep.
- 1958Wanted: Dead or AliveFrank Kreager1 ep.
- 1957TrackdownMatt Turley (uncredited)1 ep.
- 1957MaverickClaude Rogan2 ep.
- 1955Alfred Hitchcock PresentsBernard K. Froy3 ep.
Guest appearances
- 1997The PracticeJudge Robert Boucher5 ep.
- 1990Star Trek: The Next GenerationK'mpec2 ep.
- 1990DallasCurley Morrison1 ep.
- 1984Hardcastle and McCormick1 ep.
- 1977CHiPsTrucker1 ep.
- 1976Police Womanthe Chairman1 ep.
- 1975The Rockford FilesJack1 ep.
- 1958The RiflemanRudy Croft4 ep.
- 1962The Third ManCount Alex Steka1 ep.
- 1962Perry MasonBen Willoughby1 ep.
- 1960The Case of the Dangerous RobinAnthony McCord1 ep.
- 1960Johnny RingoSlim Pardee1 ep.
- 1959BonanzaGil Fenton1 ep.
- 1959The TexanDan Philips, Walt Carlin2 ep.
- 1958MaverickClaude Rogan, Phillip Stanton2 ep.
- 1959TrackdownMatt Turley (uncredited)1 ep.
- 1959Wagon TrainLieutenant Quincy Abbott1 ep.
- 1958GunsmokeCando, Jim Box2 ep.
- 1958Wanted: Dead or AliveFrank Kreager1 ep.
- 1958SugarfootWesley Jerome Lloyd1 ep.
- 1957Alfred Hitchcock PresentsBernard K. Froy3 ep.
Also known as: Charles D. Cooper · Chas Cooper