Joan Cooper

{{short description|British actress (1922–1989)}}

{{Other people|Joan Cooper|Joan Cooper (disambiguation)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2014}}

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| name = Joan Cooper

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| caption = Cooper, with her husband Arthur Lowe and son Stephen

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|8|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1989|7|1|1922|8|23|df=y}}

| death_place = Hayfield, Derbyshire, England

| children = 3

| spouse = {{plainlist|

• {{marriage|Richard Gatehouse|1941|1947|end=divorced}}
• {{marriage|Arthur Lowe|1948|1982|end=his death}}

}}

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Joan Cooper (23 August 1922 – 1 July 1989)[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178151/ IMDb] gives her date of birth as 27 May 1922, and also Birmingham as her birthplace. was a British actress.

Her second husband was the actor Arthur Lowe whom she met at the Manchester Repertory Theatre in 1946. They were married at the Register Office, Strand, London, in January 1948.{{cite web |url=http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/Dads_Army_Arthur_Lowe_Other.html |title=Arthur Lowe |publisher=Dad's Army – An Appreciation |accessdate=18 April 2019}} She had three children – Jane Gatehouse and David Gatehouse (children from a previous marriage) and Stephen Lowe (born 1953 at Hammersmith, London, UK).

She had some minor roles alongside him, particularly playing Private Godfrey's sister Dolly in some episodes of Dad's Army. In 1977–78 she also toured with Lowe in theatres around the UK as Dorothy Redfern in J. B. Priestley's Laburnum Grove.

Lowe died in April 1982, and five years later Cooper moved to his parents' cottage in Hayfield, Derbyshire, which had been vacant since his mother's death in 1981.{{cite book |first=Graham |last=Lord |title=Arthur Lowe |location=London |publisher=Orion 18 |date=2002 |pages=285–287 |isbn=9780752841847}} She lived there until her death from stomach cancer at the age of 66.