Melville Cooper

Acting · Born 1896-10-14 in Birmingham, England, UK

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 down in the 1950s, he turned to television and back to the stage. He was an early panelist on the American game show I've Got A Secret. Cooper died in 1973 and was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melville Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full…

Filmography

• The Lady Eve as Gerald
• The Adventures of Robin Hood as High Sheriff of Nottingham
• Father of the Bride as Mr. Tringle
• Rebecca as Coroner
• Around the World in 80 Days as Mr. Talley
• It Should Happen to You as Guest Panelist
• Black Coffee as Insp. Japp
• Random Harvest as George
• Love Happy as Lefty Throckmorton
• The Underworld Story as Major Redford

TV

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mullet
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Mullet / Pat Lummock
• Studio One as Nilghai
• Lux Video Theatre as Watts
• West Point
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Mr. Burnham
• Climax!
• Robert Montgomery Presents
• Lux Video Theatre as Flaky
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars