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Tommy Cooper

Tommy Cooper

Actor · Born 1921-03-19 · Caerphilly, South Wales

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Biography

Born in Caerphilly, South Wales, at 19 Llwyn Onn Street, Trecenydd, Cooper was delivered by the woman who owned the house in which the family was lodging. His parents were Welsh-born army recruiting sergeant father Thomas H. (Tom) Cooper, and his English-born wife Gertrude (née Gertrude C. Wright) from Crediton, Devon. In light of the heavily polluted air and the offer of a job for his father, the family moved to Exeter, Devon, when Cooper was three and gained the West Country accent that was part of his act. The family lived in the back of Haven Banks, where Cooper attended Mount Radford School for Boys, and helped his parents run their ice cream van, which attended fairs on the weekend. At the age of eight an aunt bought Cooper a magic set and he spent hours perfecting the tricks. Magic ran in his family—his brother David (born 1930) opened a magic shop in the 1960s in Slough High Street (then Buckinghamshire now Berkshire) called D. & Z. Cooper's Magic Shop. On 15 April 1984, Cooper collapsed and soon after died from a heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act on the London Weekend Television variety show Live From Her Majesty's, transmitt…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Plank (1967) — Larger Workman
  2. It's Your Move (1982) — Big Removal Man
  3. And the Same to You (1960) — Horace Hawkins
  4. An Audience with... (1978) — Self
  5. Cooper (1975) — Self
  6. The Best of Tommy Cooper (2004) — Self
  7. Cooper - Just Like That (1978)
  8. The Tommy Cooper Hour (1973) — Self
  9. Parkinson at 50 (2021) — Self (archive footage)
  10. Tommy Cooper: In His Own Words (2018)
  11. The Cool Mikado (1963) — Pooh-Bah, Private Detective
  12. Tommy Cooper - The Very Best Of (2006) — himself
  13. An Audience with Joan Rivers (1984)
  14. Tommy Cooper - Tribute To A Comic Genius (2000)
  15. It's Tommy Cooper (1970)
  16. Life With Cooper (1966)
  17. The Bruce Forsyth Show (1959)
  18. Tommy Cooper - Just Like That
  19. Tommy Cooper: Master Of Comedy (1997)
  20. Tommy Cooper - The Missing Pieces (2006) — himself
  21. Just Like That! (1989) — Self (archival footage)
  22. Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch (1993)
  23. Tommy Cooper - A Feztival Of Fun With Tommy Cooper (2001) — Himself
  24. Tommy Cooper at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
  25. A Tribute to Tommy Cooper (1986) — Self
  26. Tommy Cooper: The Lost Tapes (2024) — Himself
  27. The Untold Tommy Cooper (2011) — Self (Archive Footage)
  28. The Royal Variety Performance 1977 (1977)
  29. Cooper (or Life With Tommy) (1957)
  30. Cooper's Capers (1958)
  31. Cooper's Half Hour (1980)
  32. Cooperama (1966)