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American actor
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Male
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Birth:
1 January 1867(Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, U.S.A.)
Death:
1 January 1953
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Biography
Introduction
Bigelow Cooper (1867-1953) was a stage and screen character actor prominent in the silent film era. He was born Jackson Bigelow Cooper in Springfield, Ohio. He began in films in 1911 and worked for such companies as Edison and Vitagraph.
In 1915 Cooper and a friend were nearly killed in a road accident when their car overturned trapping them underneath. They were evidently not seriously hurt.
Selected filmography
- The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
- On the Broad Stairway (1914)
- Vanity Fair (1915)
- Eugene Aram (1915)
- When Love Is King (1916)
- Where Love Is (1917)
- Revelation (1918)
- The Make-Believe Wife (1918)
- The Test of Honor (1919)
- The Exciters (1923)
- Another Scandal (1924)
- Bad Company (1925)