Melville Cooper
Actor
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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Filmography
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as High Sheriff of Nottingham 1938
Around the World in 80 Days
as Mr. Talley 1956
The Lady Eve
as Gerald 1941
Father of the Bride
as Mr. Tringle 1950
Pride and Prejudice
as Mr. Collins 1940
Moonfleet
as Felix Ratsey 1955
Random Harvest
as George 1942
The Scarlet Pimpernel
as Romney 1934
It Should Happen to You
as Guest Panelist 1954
Love Happy
as Lefty Throckmorton 1949
The Dawn Patrol
as Sgt. Watkins 1938
13 Rue Madeleine
as Pappy Simpson 1947
From the Earth to the Moon
as Bancroft 1958
The Underworld Story
as Major Redford 1950
The Story of Mankind
as Major Domo 1957
The Flame of New Orleans
as Brother-in-Law 1941