Chuck Cooper
Chuck Cooper
Biography
Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
52
Gender
Male
Birthday
1954-11-08 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Acting

2023

Poker Face as Deuteronomy

2022

The First Lady as Martin Luther King Sr.

2021

Vacation Friends as Larry

2021

tick, tick... BOOM! as "Sunday" Legend #1

2020

Power Book II: Ghost as Reverend Macedon

2020

Little Voice as Percy

2019

A Vigilante as Lawyer

2018

New Amsterdam as Leon Hargrow

2018

God Friended Me as Larry

2017

The Blacklist: Redemption as General Phillips

2016

Bull as Judge Elmendorf

2015

Act One: Live from Lincoln Center as Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes

2014

Madam Secretary as General Mitch Sarno, Commandant of National War College

2014

Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet

2013

House of Cards as Barney Hull

2013

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight as Chauncey Eskridge

2009

The Good Wife as Gerard Gallo

2009

White Collar as Parole Officer

2007

Gossip Girl as Horace Rogers

2007

American Gangster as Private Doctor

2007

Evening as Ray

2007

Chapter 27 as Cabbie

2007

Noise as Judge Gibson

2006

Find Me Guilty as James Washington

2006

A Crime as Will

2004

Downtown: A Street Tale as Sergeant Williams

2002

Without a Trace as Barry's Ex-Boss

2002

Hack as Hayden

2001

100 Centre Street as Charlie the Bridgeman

2000

Our Song as Benjamin

2000

The Opportunists as Arnon Morris

1999

Strangers with Candy as Sack Race Referee

1999

Third Watch as Lieutenant Kyle

1999

The Hurricane as Earl Martin

1999

Gloria as Male Guard

1997

The Peacemaker as NYPD Cop

1996

The Juror as Stockbroker

1994

New York Undercover as Sawyer

1994

North as Umpire

1993

NYPD Blue as Bus Driver

1992

Malcolm X as Customer

1990

Law & Order as Walters' Attorney

1990

Law & Order as Art Samuels

1990

Law & Order as Lester Poole

1990

Law & Order as Rolando August

1990

Law & Order as Drew MacDaniel

1990

Criminal Justice as Judge Whitney

NaN

Road Show as Papa Mizner

NaN

After All as Not available

1987

Action Family as Cop