Acting
George Cooper
Born December 11, 1892 · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died December 9, 1943 · aged 50
George Cooper (born George Cooper Healey) was an American stage and screen actor, active in films from 1911 to 1940.
Known For
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington · 1939Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
★ 7.81939
MovieComedyDrama
After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town · 1936Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
★ 7.51936
MovieComedyDrama
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Broadway Bill · 1934Broadway Bill
★ 6.01934
MovieComedyDrama
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang · 1932I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
★ 7.81932
MovieDrama
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Lady for a Day · 1933Lady for a Day
★ 7.11933
MovieComedyDrama
Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.
Missing Girls · 1936Missing Girls
★ 6.21936
MovieCrimeDrama
A couple of na ïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome · 1947Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
★ 5.51947
MovieActionCrime
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
Mary Stevens, M.D. · 1933Mary Stevens, M.D.
★ 6.21933
MovieDrama
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office together. While Mary struggles to earn respect because of her gender, Don gets caught up in his ambitions for a bigger life.
Filmography
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Blackmail · 1939Blackmail
★ 6.91939
MovieCrimeDrama
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.
Released Prisoner Hawley (uncredited)














