Melville Cooper
Biography
George Melville Cooper (15 October 1896 – 13 March 1973), best known as Melville Cooper, was a British stage, film and television actor. Among his roles are the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, and Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, with Greer Garson.
His stage debut came in Stratford-Upon-Avon at the age of eighteen. In 1934, he moved to the United States, where he was usually cast as ineffectual snobs or crooks. As his film career wound down in the 1950s, he turned to television and back to the stage. He was an early panelist on the American game show I've Got A Secret.
Cooper died in 1973 and was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Full filmography
- Robert Montgomery Presents (1950)
- Climax! (1954)
- Studio One (1948) as Nilghai
- I've Got a Secret (1952)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) as Mullet
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) as Mullet / Pat Lummock
- Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) as Binky
- Lux Video Theatre (1950) as Watts
- Lux Video Theatre (1950) as Flaky
- Rebecca (1940) as Coroner
- West Point (1956)
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Mr. Talley
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) as High Sheriff of Nottingham
- Father of the Bride (1950) as Mr. Tringle
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951) as Mr. Burnham
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
- Pride and Prejudice (1940) as Mr. Collins
- The Lady Eve (1941) as Gerald
- Random Harvest (1942) as George
- Love Happy (1949) as Lefty Throckmorton
- Diane (1956) as 1st Court Physician
- It Should Happen to You (1954) as Guest Panelist
- The Story of Mankind (1957) as Major Domo
- The Dawn Patrol (1938) as Sgt. Watkins