Edward Cooper

Nacimiento : 1883-06-28, Bolton, England, UK

Muerte : 1956-07-15

Películas

La bribona
Sir Herbert Harbord (uncredited)
Una farsa con cierto estilo según la novela de Rosamund Marshall, que bebe directamente de la idea de Pigmalión. Esta vez se traslada la acción al Londres del siglo XVIII, donde unos conspiradores transforman a una chica de la calle (Paulette Goddard, tan divertida y natural como de costumbre) en una gran dama. Traman un plan consistente en casar a la muchacha con un noble de la Corte para sacarle todo el dinero posible.
The Man in Half Moon Street
Liveried Servant
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
El pirata y la dama
Croupier (uncredited)
Una dama inglesa cae locamente enamorada de un pirata francés, tras ser capturada por éste en su casa ancestral de la costa de Cornualles.
La Dubarry era una dama
Flunky
Un tipo adinerado se enamora de la artista de un club nocturno, que a su vez ama a un bailarín. Ante el dilema de casarse por dinero o por amor, ella opta por lo primero. Pero el millonario sufre un accidente, y sueña que se encuentra en la época de Luis XV, y que él es monarca que persigue a madame Du Barry, que, claro está, tiene el rostro de su amada. Simpática comedia musical rodada en technicolor, que combina la época actual con de la Francia cortesana. Cuenta con buenos trabajos de Lucille Ball y Gene Kelly, éste cantando los temas musicales "Do I Love You" y "Song of the Rebellion".
Vida y muerte del Coronel Blimp
BBC Official
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un anciano militar británico rememora su larga y excitante vida. Su larga amistad con un colega alemán o su desobediencia a las ordenanzas para ayudar a una bella compatriota en apuros sólo son dos episodios de una experiencia personal inolvidable. (FILMAFFINITY)
La señora Miniver
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una familia inglesa, que vive en un pequeño pueblo, logra sobrevivir a los bombardeos alemanes. La madre se encuentra al frente de la casa esperando que su hijo y su marido regresen de la guerra.
Gallant Sons
Latimer, Pendleton's Butler (uncredited)
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Girl in 313
Butler
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
Free, Blonde and 21
Butler
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
Es mi hombre
Butler (uncredited)
En Nueva York durante los años 20, una cantante lucha por apartar a su novio de los problemas...
Wife, Husband and Friend
Butler
Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.
El vaquero y la dama
Smith's Servant (uncredited)
Gary Cooper interpreta a un cowboy rudo e implacable pero con buenos sentimientos. Aunque no tiene nada que ver con su forma de ser, acaba enamorándose de una joven adinerada de alto copete, interpretada por Merle Oberon. Con su manera decidida de actuar, el cowboy, que tiene un temperamento bastante tradicional, está decidido a calmar la ligereza de la chica. Ella no soporta que nadie le diga lo que tiene que hacer. El cowboy piensa que este tipo de chicas son como los caballos salvajes, que para adiestrarlos hay que darles un margen de confianza, a la vez que atarles corto.
Rascals
Grayson - the Butler
A Gypsy band takes lots of stuff but always in a good cause. Led by Jane Withers, they pick up a socialite (Hundson) who has amnesia. She works as a fortune teller and raises enough money for an operation to regain her memory.
Sing and Be Happy
Mason's Butler
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
Amor y periodismo
Tony's Butler (uncredited)
La labor del periodista Steven Leyton es husmear en las vidas privadas, y a su modo de ver, frívolas y ociosas, de los ricos. Un día, Tony Gateson, una rica heredera hija del financiero Gateson y uno de sus personajes favoritos, decide pagarle con la misma moneda al anunciar su próximo compromiso con el joven. A partir de ese momento, cada detalle de la vida de Leyton será también de interés público.
Head Over Heels
Charles
Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over Heels in Love. The ever-charming Matthews plays Jeanne, a Parisian entertainer who manages to get herself in hot water with the French version of Actors' Equity and is forced to take a series of jobs under a series of assumed names. Meanwhile, a romantic triangle involving American film star Norma (Helen Whitney Bourne) and gangsters Pierre (Robert Flemyng) and Marcel (Louis Borrell) spells big trouble for all concerned -- including the plucky Jeanne. Highlighted by six sprightly song numbers, Head Over Heels in Love is our girl Jessie's vehicle all the way, and never mind the "main" plot. The film was directed by Sonnie Hale, who just so happened to be the star's husband.
Time Out for Romance
Butler
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
To Mary - with Love
Butler
Crónica de la vida de un matrimonio (Warner Baxter y Mirna Loy) en la época de la Gran Depresión.
Contrabando humano
Detective / Butler
Dos reporteros de periódicos rivales se alían para acabar con una banda de contrabandistas que introduce emigrantes ilegales en Estados Unidos con la intención de extorsionarlos.
Champagne Charlie
Butler
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.
The Calling of Dan Matthews
Butler (uncredited)
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
The Perfect Gentleman
Alf
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.
Page Miss Glory
Doorman (uncredited)
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.
Here Comes the Band
Wallace's Butler (uncredited)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Clive of India
Clive's Butler
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Hembra
James, Alison's Second Butler (Uncredited)
Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) administra una empresa de automóviles y mantiene una buena relación con sus empleados, en especial con los hombres, con los que suele tener fugaces relaciones sexuales. Un día, llega a su empresa el ingeniero Jim Thorne, un hombre independiente por el que se siente atraída.
Torch Singer
Agatha Alden's Butler
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she then searches for the child she gave up.
The Working Man
Hartland's Butler Jackson (uncredited)
A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.
Timbuctoo
Steven
'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)
Vivamos hoy
Realtor (uncredited)
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), Diana Boyce-Smith está atrapada en un triángulo amoroso con Claude, un funcionario británico, y con Bogard, un piloto de combate estadounidense.
The Secret of Madame Blanche
Aubrey's Secretary (Uncredited)
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
Escapade
Baxter - the Butler
Upon release from the penitentiary, Phillip Whitney tells his friend, Bennie, that he is going straight, and visits his lawyer brother John. Phillip looks up to John and while incarcerated maintained contact with him through a continental mailing agency. As John has no idea he was in prison, Phillip tells him that he has just returned from Japan.
The Good Bad Girl
Henderson's Butler
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
Gay and Devilish
The Butler
Doris May plays Fanchon Browne, a poor girl about to enter into a marriage of convenience with wealthy old Peter Armitage (Otis Harlan). When she falls in love with Armitage's handsome nephew Peter (Cullen Landis), Fanchon is in quite a quandary.
Tillie
Lawyer
Tillie Getz (Minter), the eldest daughter of Jacob Getz (Beery), a brutal, driving father, lives in a Pennsylvania Mennonite village. Her Mennonite aunt leaves a will by the terms of which Tillie will inherit a small fortune if she has joined the Mennonite church by age eighteen. A plot is hatched by the lawyer (Cooper) who drew up the will and an attempt is made to force Tillie into a marriage with Absalom Puntz (Anderson), an undesirable young man, sharing her fortune being its end.
Go and Get It
W.W. Crocker
Wrestling legend Bull Montana plays a murderous gorilla with a human brain transplant who is tracked by a feisty newspaper reporter.