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Clancy Cooper

{{Short description|American actor (1906–1975)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Clancy Cooper

| image = Clancy Cooper in Girls in Chains.jpg

| caption = Cooper in Girls in Chains, 1943

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|7|23|mf=y}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|6|14|1906|7|23|mf=y}}

| death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S.

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1938–1972

}}

Clancy Cooper (July 23, 1906 – June 14, 1975) was an American actor.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE6_olMS_2oC&q=Clancy+Cooper+actor&pg=PA102|title=In the Nick of Time: Motion Picture Sound Serials|first=William C.|last=Cline|date=December 1, 1997|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786404711|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_-0ZAQAAIAAJ&q=Clancy+Cooper+actor|title=John Willis' Theatre World|first=John A.|last=Willis|date=January 2, 1977|publisher=Crown Publishers.|via=Google Books}}

He appeared in more than 100 films between 1938 and 1962. He also guest-starred on numerous TV series, such as The Rifleman, Lawman, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Maverick, Gunsmoke, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents; he also appeared on Sanford and Son as Kelly, an elderly friend of Fred Sanford, in the episode "The Copper Caper", the fourth episode in the first season of the series. He appeared as the Sheriff in The Lone Ranger (TV series) 1949 episode (1/15) "Old Joe's Sister".

Cooper's Broadway credits as an actor included Eight O'Clock Tuesday (1941), Horse Fever (1940), Night Music (1940), The Man Who Killed Lincoln (1940), Summer Night (1939), Stop Press (1939), The Fabulous Invalid (1938), and Casey Jones (1938).{{cite web |title=Clancy Cooper |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/clancy-cooper-36228 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=February 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218002406/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/clancy-cooper-36228 |archive-date=February 18, 2020}} He also directed plays.{{cite news |last1=Harford |first1=Margaret |title=Art, Food, Theater at New Hope Inn |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44803602/the_los_angeles_times/ |access-date=February 17, 2020 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=October 4, 1968 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=82|via = Newspapers.com}}

Selected filmography

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|0177949|Clancy Cooper}}
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Category:1906 births

Category:1975 deaths

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male stage actors

Category:20th-century American male actors