Bigelow Cooper
{{short description|American actor}}
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| caption = Freddie Verdi and Cooper in Satan on Earth (1919)
| birth_name = Jackson Bigelow Cooper
| birth_date = December 21, 1867
| birth_place = Springfield, Ohio
| death_date = 1953
| death_place = Westchester County, New York, US
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| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1904–1927
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Jackson Bigelow Cooper (December 21, 1867 – 1953){{Citation needed |date=February 2022}} was an American stage and screen character actor prominent in the silent film era.
Biography
Born in Springfield, Ohio in 1867, Cooper's early acting experience came in stock theater, including acting with the first stock company at the Murray Hill Theater in New York City.{{cite news|title=Bigelow Cooper -- An Edison Actor of Wide Experience|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19227477/bigelow_cooper/|work=The News-Herald|date=June 21, 1913|location=Pennsylvania, Franklin|page=7|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = April 13, 2018}} {{Open access}}
He began in films in 1911 and worked for such companies as Edison and Vitagraph.
In 1915 Cooper and a friend were nearly killed in a road accident when their car overturned trapping them underneath. They were evidently not seriously hurt.Silent Film Necrology p. 104 2nd edition c. 2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana (quoting from defunct New York Daily Mirror of September 22, 1915)
Selected filmography
- What Happened to Mary (1912)
- Helping John (1912)
- The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
- On the Broad Stairway (1914)
- Vanity Fair (1915)
- Eugene Aram (1915)
- When Love Is King (1916)
- The Heart of the Hills (1916)
- Where Love Is (1917)
- The Light in Darkness (1917)
- The Tell-Tale Step (1917)
- The Bottom of the Well (1917)
- Revelation (1918)
- Wild Primrose (1918)
- The Make-Believe Wife (1918)
- The Test of Honor (1919)
- The Country Cousin (1919)
- Shadows of Suspicion (1919)
- The Prophet's Paradise (1922)
- The Exciters (1923)
- Another Scandal (1924)
- Bad Company (1925)
- White Mice (1926)
- The Broadway Drifter (1927)
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|0177886}}
- {{IBDB name|36222}}
- [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=506973 Portrait gallery] (New York City Public Library, Billy Rose collection)
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Category:American male silent film actors
Category:Male actors from Ohio
Category:People from Springfield, Ohio
Category:American male stage actors
Category:20th-century American male actors
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