
Charles Cooper
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.
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Films
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TV Shows
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Crew Credits
Known For
44 Credits
Perry Mason
as Ben Willoughby
1957

Star Trek: The Next Generation
as K'mpec
1987

Bonanza
as Gil Fenton
1959

The Practice
as Judge Robert Boucher
1997

Dallas
as Curley Morrison
1978

Wagon Train
as Lieutenant Quincy Abbott
1957

The Rifleman
1958

The Rifleman
as Rudy Croft
1958

The Rockford Files
as Jack
1974

Maverick
as Phillip Stanton
1957

Maverick
as Claude Rogan
1957

Police Woman
as the Chairman
1974

