Chuck Cooper

Chuck Cooper

出生 : 1954-11-08, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

略歴

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).

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"SUNDAY" Legend
一流のミュージカル作曲家を目指す青年。30歳に向けてカウントダウンが始まるなか、恋や友情の悩み、最高の作品を作りたいという焦りに直面してゆく。
Vacation Friends
Larry
When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met in Mexico followed them back home and decide to play tricks on them.
The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
Leonato
This bold interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece features Danielle Brooks (“Orange is the New Black,” Broadway’s “The Color Purple”) and Grantham Coleman (“Buzzer,” “The Americans”) as the sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick. Tony Award winner Kenny Leon (“American Son,” “A Raisin in the Sun”) directs with choreography by Tony Award nominee Camille A. Brown (“Choir Boy”). Set in contemporary Georgia with an election race underway, Great Performances: Much Ado About Nothing finds the community of Messina celebrating a break from an ongoing war, but not all is peaceful amid the merriment. Former rivals battle it out, revenge is sought and trickery runs amok in this timeless comedy of romantic retribution and miscommunication. Earning a New York Times Critic’s Pick, the play was recorded during its final weekend of Free Shakespeare in the Park performances, June 22-23, 2019.
A Vigilante
Lawyer
A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the one she must kill to be truly free.
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
James Lapine's tribute to a life in the theater based on Moss Hart's autobiography of the same name, starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. The play, narrated by an older Moss Hart, traces his life from being poor in The Bronx to becoming famous and successful as a Broadway writer and director.
アメリカン・ギャングスター
Private Doctor
1970年代の初頭のニューヨークで、ハーレムを牛耳っているギャングのボスの運転手をしていたフランク・ルーカス(デンゼル・ワシントン)は、ボスの亡き後、東南アジアの麻薬を密輸する計画を決行する。時に横暴ともいえる強引なやり方で財力をつけたフランクは、マフィアにも一目置かれる麻薬王として街に君臨する。
いつか眠りにつく前に
Ray
病に倒れ、死を目前にした老婦人アン。枕元で見守る2人の娘に、彼女は若き日の悲劇的な恋愛体験を話し始め……。母の看病をしながら、自身の生き方を問い直す娘たちを描いた人間ドラマ。
チャプター27
Cabbie
A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.
A Crime
Will
Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit, so that Vincent can find revenge and leave the past behind. But there is no ideal culprit and no perfect crime.
Find Me Guilty
James Washington
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
Downtown: A Street Tale
Sergeant Williams
A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
The Opportunists
Arnon Morris
Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.
Our Song
Benjamin
Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" and the choices the girls face once their school closes down because of the need for asbestos removal. This film is about a host of topics, not least of which is the hard-work involved in maintaining
ザ・ハリケーン
Earl Martin
殺人罪に問われた天才ボクサー、ルービン・ハリケーン・カーターは、人種偏見に満ちた裁判で終身刑を宣告される。無罪を主張する彼は獄中で自伝を執筆。その自伝に感銘を受けた少年との出会いを機に、カーターは連邦裁判所で最後の戦いに挑む決意をする。
Gloria
Male Guard
After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
ピースメーカー
NYPD Cop
ロシアから解体処理を行う核弾頭9基が国外に運び出された。その調査にあたるホワイトハウス核兵器密輸対策チームのケリー博士はロシア事情に詳しいデヴォー大佐とコンビを組み、核の足取りを追跡。トルコの鉱山地帯で移送トラックを空から追い詰め8基の核弾頭を回収する。しかし残る1基は犯人一味のボスニア人が別の場所に運び去ったあとだった。ケリーとデヴォーはそれがニューヨークであることをつきとめるのだった。
陪審員
Stockbroker
With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, but, when it becomes clear that the mobsters might want to silence her for good, she sends Oliver abroad and tries to gather evidence of the plot against her, setting up a final showdown.
North
Umpire
Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a journey around the world to find parents that really care about him.
マルコムX
Customer
才人スパイク・リー監督が、自身も尊敬する、近代アメリカきっての偉大な思想家であり、キング牧師と並ぶ黒人解放運動のリーダー、マルコムXの生涯を描いた伝記的作品。物語は、マルコムがチンピラだった頃から始まる。若くして窃盗罪で服役し、刑務所の中でイスラム教に改宗、出所ののち彼は、イライジャ・ムハマットの下でブラック・モスレムきっての白人を敵対視する煽動家となる。やがて組織に疑問を感じ、多人種共存の道を探ってメッカを巡礼、そしてあらゆる人種の真の友愛を悟って帰国。そしてアメリカ黒人の解放運動を今までになかった新しい理念によって大きく展開しようとした矢先の1965年2月21日、ハーレムのオーデュボン・ボールルームでの講演中に13発の銃弾を浴びて射殺されるまでの、壮絶な軌跡を克明に追う。原作は、マルコムXが著わし「ROOTS/ルーツ」のアレックス・ヘイリーがまとめた『マルコムX自伝』。D・ワシントンのパワフルな芝居とテンポの良い演出が、この長尺を一気に見せる。
Criminal Justice
Judge Whitney
A knife-scarred victim must identify her assailant beyond a reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the accused is offered a deal if he pleads guilty. Is he as innocent as the victim? Is the justice system guiltier than both?