
Charles Cooper
Acting
1926-08-11 - Present
Charles Darwin Cooper was an American actor who has played a wide variety of television and film roles for more than a half century from 1950 to 2001.
On Broadway, Cooper appeared in The Winner (1954) and All You Need Is One Good Break (1950).
In 1958, Cooper played the outlaw Tate Masters in the episode "Twelve Guns" of NBC's western television series Cimarron City with George Montgomery and John Smith. In 1959, he played a gunfighter, Jack Rollins, in the episode "The Visitor" of Lawman, an ABC/Warner Brothers Television western series.
He was cast as Matt Yordy in the 1961 episode "Honest Abe" of Chuck Connors' The Rifleman.
Cooper made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Philip Strague in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Buried Clock." His final appearance in 1962 was as Ben Willoughby in "The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal."
Cooper is perhaps best remembered for his appearances in Star Trek related roles. He played the Klingon Chancellor K'mpec in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Sins of the Father" and "Reunion" and the Klingon General Korrd in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
His other film roles included appearances in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man (1956), A Dog's Best Friend (1959), the comedy Valet Girls (1987), and the action film Blind Fury (1989) starring Rutger Hauer.
Credits

Star Trek V: The Final FrontierasGen. Korrd

Blind FuryasCobb

The Wrong ManasDetective Matthews

PantherasSheriff

Rabbit TestasSecond Presidential Aide

Angel on My ShoulderasMatt

The Big BounceasSenator

The Five of MeasDeputy Sheriff

Valet GirlsasVictor Smegmite

Huntress: Spirit of the NightasTy Bodi

Gun FightasCole Fender

The Strange Possession of Mrs. OliverasMr. Logan

A Dog's Best FriendasDeputy Sheriff Bill Beamer

FBI Code 98asSpecial Agent Bernard Lyons

Vamps: Deadly DreamgirlsasMax

Two of a KindasBus Driver

Conspiracy of TerrorasIrate Driver

Twice UnderasSgt. Fitz