![]() ![]() I was really on a high just in anticipation of the audition. So we did the Sunday matinée, and I had to get on a plane, fly to the States, do the audition, get back on the plane, fly back for Tuesday night's performance. I got a callback to read some more scenes. So in the seven months that I was over in England, news came. I went to London to do a West End production with Harold Pinter-it was a Tennessee Williams play, Sweet Bird Of Youth, directed by Harold Pinter and starring Lauren Bacall. So Nancy gave John my name, and said, "When the time comes for Matewan, take a look at this guy." So that's kind of how that came about. He wanted to do Matewan, but lost the financing, so he went on to do Brother From Another Planet. And she was aware that John beforehand had lost financing. Then Nancy worked on Brother From Another Planet when John was shooting that. Then she and Nancy and Rich, Nancy's husband-we all four became real good friends from that experience. So Marianne did Nancy's half-hour junior black-and-white piece. When we were living in New York, she answered a backstage ad for an NYU student's film, and that turned out to be Nancy Savoca. ![]() (On landing his role in Matewan) That was my first feature film, but it came in kind of an interesting way. McPhilip, Poor Old Woman) Wyman Pendleton (Rat Mulligan, 1st Man Neighbor, 3rd Old Man) Steve Rankin (Farrelly, Mixer, Guard #3) Sally Faye Reit (Katie Fox) Joseph Urla (2nd Policeman, Student, Poor Man) and Steve Wise (Father Conroy, Blind Musician, Organization Man #1, Guard) in the cast. McPhilip, Evangelist, Judge #2) Randle Mell (Frankie McPhilip, Dutch Sailor, Young Man #2, Organization Man #2, Guard) Amy Thompson (Bridget, 1st Woman, Flower Seller) Dierk Toporzysek (Connors) Fred Sanders (Augustine, Young Man #1, Judge #3) Adale O'Brien (Maggie, Mrs. Foley, Farmer, 2nd Man, Workman) Margo Martindale (Aunt Betty, 1st Woman Neighbor, Mixer's Wife) William McNulty (Mr. Dezseran (Writer, Artist #1, Publican) Kathryn Fuller (Louisa Cummings, 2nd Woman Neighbor) Laura Hicks (Mary McPhilip) Michael Kevin (Gallagher) Katherine Klekas (Phyllis) Neil Larson (1st Policeman, Pimp) Ken Latimer (Mr. Turley, Bodyguard, Artist #2) Susan Cash (Kitty, Christina, High-class Whore) Anthony De Fonte (Mr. Cassidy, Agnes, 2nd Woman) Lee Biolos (Mr. (February 24 to April 4, 1982) He played Mulholland in Thomas Murphy's adaptation of Liam O'Flaherty's novel, "The Informer," in a Humana Festival production at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky with Anne Barclay (Mrs. Jesse Cooper inspired his mother to author the script for the film "Conquistadora." It relates the true story of Mary Somoza, the mother of twins with cerebral palsy, who fought the educational system to provide the best education possible for her children. They have one child, a son Jesse, who died on Januat the age of 17, of natural causes related to cerebral palsy. Cooper married actress/producer/scriptwriter Marianne Leone on July 8, 1983. In 1996, he starred in his third John Sayles movie, Lone Star (1996), where he plays Sam Deeds, the sheriff whose lawman father becomes a posthumous suspect in a murder investigation. He has also appeared in a number of television movies. On television, Cooper has been featured in the mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989) and Return to Lonesome Dove (1993), as July Johnson. Other films he has appeared in include Guilty by Suspicion (1991), Money Train (1995) and A Time to Kill (1996). Although his performance was well received, the picture was not successful. ![]() He debuted in films in the John Sayles movie Matewan (1987). Educated at the University of Missouri school of drama, Cooper appeared on Broadway in "Of the Fields Lately (1980)", and off-Broadway in "The Ballad of Soapy Smith (1983)" and "A Different Moon (1983)". His parents were from Texas, where Cooper was raised. Christopher Walton Cooper was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Mary Ann (Walton), a homemaker, and Charles Sherwood Cooper, a cattleman and internist who served as a doctor in the US Air Force. ![]()
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