LOS ANGELES - actor Jackie Cooper, who survived a tumultuous childhood as a star named the Oscar to enjoy a career varied as an Executive Director and sidekick "Superman" TV, died near Los Angeles, his attorney said Wednesday. He was 88.
Cooper succumbed to complications of old age to a convalescent home in the coastal city of Santa Monica Tuesday, Attorney Roger Licht said to Reuters.
He has played in more than 100 films and television programs before retiring from Hollywood, more than 20 years ago. He retired to a condominium tower with his third wife, Barbara, whom he credited for his continued on the direct and close.
Cooper outside Hollywood life is just as interesting. He served in the U.S. Navy during the second world war and retired with the rank of Captain of the reserve in the 1980s. He raced cars owned race horses.
It has never really throw the pug nose and strong Chin that gave attracted such gestures him to millions of Americans during the great depression, when he played as a member distinguished cast of Hal Roach "our Gang" comedy short films In the twilight of his career, Cooper played curved editor Daily Planet, Perry White in the film "Superman" of 1978 and its three sequels.
Born John Cooper, Jr. in Los Angeles, he is the illegitimate child of a sickly Italian mother, who died when he was a teenager and a Jewish father who quickly abandoned the family. He made his Hollywood debut, when his grandmother hated lot has dragged around lots of studio for the day's work as a supplement.
His work in "our Gang" - he appeared in these short films of comedy as "The darling of the Prof" and "Love Business" - led to his star role, in 1931 "Skippy" film, an adaptation of the comic on a lively young.
To force to cry for a scene, his grandmother dragged his dog off the coast of all and he is shot by a security guard. The boy duly wept, but is remained hysterical even after it was revealed that the dog was not actually dead. Cooper called his 1981 memoir "Please Don't Shoot my dog.".
9 Years, he made Oscar history by becoming the youngest male performer to be appointed to a leading role. (He lost to Lionel Barrymore).
Later, in 1931, he played in "The field" innocent son of a pocharde Boxer played by Wallace Beery. The film was redone in 1979 with Rick Schroder: the little boy, towing head. Cooper was reunited with Beery in films such as "the bowery" (1933) and "treasure island" (1934).
Beyond the screen, he enjoys fully the fruits of the celebrity. By 18, he became the lover of Joan Crawford, who was almost two times more than his age. But it was an old hand at this time. Later, he recounted that when he was 13 he was having sex two or three times before 9 p.m. with a girl of 20 years across the street.
His career is inevitably depleted as he got older and he had been divorced twice at the time wherever he was in the early 1930s.
Cooper won an Emmy Award for his title role as marine physician in the sitcom "Hennessey" before becoming a vice President at Screen Gems during the 1960s, working on such shows as "Bewitched" and "gidget." He turned to TV directing in the 1970s, winning Emmys for episodes of "M * A * S * H" and "white shadow".
His third wife, the former Kraus in Barbara, died in 2009, after more than 50 years of marriage. He was survived by one of their three children and a namesake son of his first marriage.
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