Melville Cooper
George Melville Cooper (15 October 1896 – 13 March 1973), best known as Melville Cooper, was a British stage, film and television actor. Among his roles are the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, and Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, with Greer Garson.
His stage debut came in Stratford-Upon-Avon at the age of eighteen. In 1934, he moved to the United States, where he was usually cast as ineffectual snobs or crooks. As his film career wound down in the 1950s, he turned to television and back to the stage. He was an early panelist on the American game show I've Got A Secret.
Cooper died in 1973 and was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.084 |
| Birthday | 1896-10-14 |
| Place of Birth | Birmingham, England, UK |
| Also Known As | George Melville Cooper, |
1941
The Lady Eve
7.2/350
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean start...
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The Lady Eve
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
6.649/522
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
7.5/761
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1954
It Should Happen to You
6.9/58
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at firs...
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It Should Happen to You
1950
Father of the Bride
7/206
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself,...
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Father of the Bride
1931
Black Coffee
6/1
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famo...
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Black Coffee
1942
Random Harvest
7.3/104
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
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Random Harvest
1949
Love Happy
5.776/49
The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.
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Love Happy
1950
The Underworld Story
6.1/26
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
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The Underworld Story
1939
Blind Alley
5.7/15
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
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Blind Alley
1949
The Red Danube
6.3/9
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
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The Red Danube
1946
Heartbeat
4.9/11
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
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Heartbeat
1955
Moonfleet
6.4/107
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old frien...
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Moonfleet
1956
Diane
5.7/9
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
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Diane
1957
The Story of Mankind
4.6/22
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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The Story of Mankind
1956
Bundle of Joy
6.4/16
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' so...
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Bundle of Joy
1937
Tovarich
6.2/4
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatia...
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Tovarich
1941
The Flame of New Orleans
6/19
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
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The Flame of New Orleans
1937
Thin Ice
6.7/6
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
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Thin Ice
1958
From the Earth to the Moon
5.2/27
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to p...
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From the Earth to the Moon
1940
Murder Over New York
6.1/17
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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Murder Over New York
1934
The Private Life of Don Juan
6.118/17
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five y...
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The Private Life of Don Juan
1938
The Dawn Patrol
6.8/39
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty r...
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The Dawn Patrol
1938
Four's a Crowd
5.1/12
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
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Four's a Crowd
1947
13 Rue Madeleine
5.9/35
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, B...
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13 Rue Madeleine
1941
You Belong to Me
5.8/14
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
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You Belong to Me
1935
Rendezvous
4.8/7
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
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Rendezvous
1940
Too Many Husbands
6.3/17
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
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Too Many Husbands
1955
The King's Thief
6.2/8
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
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The King's Thief
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
5.2/13
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who i...
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The Gorgeous Hussy
1950
The Petty Girl
4.1/6
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his...
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The Petty Girl
1938
Gold Diggers in Paris
5.5/2
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetar...
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Gold Diggers in Paris
1937
The Great Garrick
5.9/10
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
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The Great Garrick
1943
Holy Matrimony
6.7/12
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
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Holy Matrimony
1949
And Baby Makes Three
4.9/4
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
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And Baby Makes Three
1938
Garden of the Moon
5.8/4
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast ov...
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Garden of the Moon
1938
Dramatic School
6.2/4
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at nigh...
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Dramatic School
1946
The Imperfect Lady
0/0
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
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The Imperfect Lady
1939
The Sun Never Sets
4.8/2
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompani...
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The Sun Never Sets
1942
The Affairs of Martha
5.8/5
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
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The Affairs of Martha
1938
Hard to Get
6/5
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making b...
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Hard to Get
1938
Women Are Like That
5.7/3
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her...
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Women Are Like That
1938
Comet Over Broadway
5/2
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Comet Over Broadway
1950
Let's Dance
5.5/6
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and joble...
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Let's Dance
1942
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
6.5/4
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling tra...
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Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
1949
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
1954
The General's Boots
0/0
A martinet of a general, one of his former officers, and a middle aged plane passenger find themselves in a liferaft with only one canteen of water.
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The General's Boots
1942
This Above All
6.639/18
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with t...
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This Above All
1943
Immortal Sergeant
5.6/7
During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.
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Immortal Sergeant
1943
Hit Parade of 1943
4.8/5
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publi...
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Hit Parade of 1943
1941
Scotland Yard
0/0
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planni...
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Scotland Yard
1940
Rebecca
7.892/1802
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died myste...
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Rebecca
1939
I'm from Missouri
0/0
Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to bu...
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I'm from Missouri
1940
Pride and Prejudice
6.9/140
Mrs. Bennet wishes to wed her five unmarried daughters and is overjoyed when a wealthy bachelor begins living nearby, but misunderstandings make happi...
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Pride and Prejudice
1935
The Bishop Misbehaves
4/1
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester ask...
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The Bishop Misbehaves
1940
Escape to Glory
6/1
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by plac...
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Escape to Glory
1930
All Riot on the Western Front
0/0
A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,
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All Riot on the Western Front
1931
The Calendar
0/0
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....
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The Calendar
1932
Two White Arms
0/0
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
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Two White Arms
1943
My Kingdom for a Cook
0/0
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.
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My Kingdom for a Cook
1948
Enchantment
6.4/10
Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last da...
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Enchantment
1942
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
6/1
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1934
The Scarlet Pimpernel
6.9/63
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an un...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
1939
Two Bright Boys
0/0
A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.
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Two Bright Boys
1937
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
6.025/20
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1933
Leave It to Me
0/0
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
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Leave It to Me
1933
To Brighton with Gladys
0/0
Story of nephew's tribulations in conveying penguin to wealthy uncle's seaside home.
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To Brighton with Gladys
1953
The Fabulous Oliver Chantry
0/0
A newspaper columnist, critic and novelist suddenly becomes caretaker to an infant boy left by his parents who are being deported for what turns out t...
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