Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper

Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including American Beauty (1999), October Sky (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove, which became one of the most successful Westerns in history. Cooper won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John Laroche in the 2002 film Adaptation. He played a lead role in the historical and political thriller Breach (2007), playing FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen. He played Daniel Sloan in the 2012 political thriller The Company You Keep, and supervillain Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He also portrayed Al Templeton on the 2016 Hulu miniseries 11.22.63. He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, including Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991), Lone Star (1996), Silver City (2004) and Amigo (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Biography

Birthday: 09/07/1951
Place of birth: Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Directors

Year Title Role Rating
2021
With/In Volume 2
Director
4 / 10

Acting

Year Title Role Rating
2025
The History of Sound
Older Lionel
6.915 / 10
2025
Everything's Going to Be Great
Walter
6 / 10
2023
Boston Strangler
Jack Maclaine
6.623 / 10
2021
With/In Volume 2
(segment "Nuts")
4 / 10
2020
Irresistible
Jack Hastings
6.028 / 10
2019
Little Women
Mr. Laurence
7.854 / 10
2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Jerry Vogel
6.959 / 10
2019
Henrietta Bulkowski
Danny Wilcox
6.1 / 10
2018
Homecoming
Leonard Geist
6.951 / 10
2017
Cars 3
Smokey (voice)
6.864 / 10
2016
11.22.63
Al Templeton
7.766 / 10
2016
Demolition
Phil Eastwood
6.864 / 10
2016
Live by Night
Chief Figgis
6.3 / 10
2016
Coming Through the Rye
J.D. Salinger
6.2 / 10
2016
Fastball
Clifford Blankenship (voice)
7.2 / 10
2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Norman Osborn (uncredited)
6.567 / 10
2013
August: Osage County
Charlie Aiken
6.869 / 10
2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Self - Narrator (voice)
6.6 / 10
2012
The Company You Keep
Daniel Sloan
6.177 / 10
2012
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Gary (voice)
7.3 / 10
2011
The Muppets
Tex Richman
6.674 / 10
2011
Amigo
Col. Hardacre
4.9 / 10
2010
The Town
Stephen MacRay
7.227 / 10
2010
Remember Me
Neil Craig
7.1 / 10
2010
The Company Men
Phil Woodward
6.547 / 10
2010
The Tempest
Antonio
5.288 / 10
2010
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
3.8 / 10
2009
Where the Wild Things Are
Douglas (voice)
6.5 / 10
2009
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Himself (Narrator)
4.5 / 10
2008
New York, I Love You
Alex
6 / 10
2008
Extreme Movie
FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
4.3 / 10
2008
Married Life
Harry Allen
5.8 / 10
2008
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman (voice)
5 / 10
2007
The Kingdom
Grant Sykes
6.761 / 10
2007
Breach
Robert Hanssen
6.639 / 10
2006
Primo Levi's Journey
Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
5.9 / 10
2005
Jarhead
Lt. Col. Kazinski
6.696 / 10
2005
Syriana
Jimmy Pope
6.4 / 10
2005
Capote
Alvin Dewey
6.967 / 10
2004
The Bourne Supremacy
Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
7.338 / 10
2004
Silver City
Dickie Pilager
6.139 / 10
2003
Seabiscuit
Tom Smith
7.068 / 10
2003
My House in Umbria
Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
6.1 / 10
2002
The Bourne Identity
Alexander Conklin
7.489 / 10
2002
Adaptation.
John Laroche
7.325 / 10
2002
Interstate 60
Bob Cody
7.402 / 10
2000
The Patriot
Col. Harry Burwell
7.214 / 10
2000
Me, Myself & Irene
Lieutenant Gerke
6.638 / 10
1999
American Beauty
Colonel Fitts
7.997 / 10
1999
October Sky
John Hickam
7.674 / 10
1999
The 24 Hour Woman
Ron Hacksby
5.8 / 10
1998
Great Expectations
Joe
6.646 / 10
1998
The Horse Whisperer
Frank Booker
6.895 / 10
1997
Breast Men
Dr. William Larson
5.271 / 10
1997
Alone
Gus Jr.
6.7 / 10
1996
A Time to Kill
Dwayne Looney
7.391 / 10
1996
Film Independent Spirit Awards
Self - Presenter
-
1996
Lone Star
Sam Deeds
7.056 / 10
1996
Boys
Mr. John Baker
5.33 / 10
1996
The Deliverance of Elaine
Charlie Skyler
4.6 / 10
1995
Money Train
Torch
5.862 / 10
1995
Pharaoh's Army
Captain John Hull Abston
6.4 / 10
1994
One More Mountain
Jack Reed
6 / 10
1993
Return to Lonesome Dove
July Johnson
7 / 10
1993
This Boy's Life
Roy
7.129 / 10
1992
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Anthony Blessing
5 / 10
1992
Bed of Lies
Price Daniel, Jr.
6 / 10
1991
Guilty by Suspicion
Larry Nolan
6.451 / 10
1991
City of Hope
Riggs
6.682 / 10
1991
In Broad Daylight
Jack Wilson
6.111 / 10
1991
To The Moon, Alice
Frank Wiliker
7 / 10
1991
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Charlie
6.8 / 10
1991
Darrow
Eugene Debs
5.4 / 10
1990
Law & Order
Defense Attorney Roy Payne
7.3 / 10
1990
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Ernie Favaro
8 / 10
1989
Lonesome Dove
July Johnson
7.9 / 10
1988
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
6.5 / 10
1987
Matewan
Joe Kenehan
7.361 / 10
1985
The Equalizer
Michael
7.2 / 10
1984
Miami Vice
Jimmy Yagovitch
7.458 / 10
1982
American Playhouse
Louis Halladay
6.6 / 10
1982
Bad Timing
Eddie
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-
I Passed This Way
-
-
-
Light on Broken Glass
Jay
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