Chuck Cooper
Acting • Born 1954-11-08
Biography
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).
Filmography
54 credits
A Crime
Movie • 2006
Will
Find Me Guilty
Movie • 2006
James Washington
Action Family
Movie • 1987
Cop
tick, tick... BOOM!
Movie • 2021
"Sunday" Legend #1
Noise
Movie • 2007
Judge Gibson
Downtown: A Street Tale
Movie • 2004
Sergeant Williams
The Opportunists
Movie • 2000
Arnon Morris
Malcolm X
Movie • 1992
Customer
Road Show
Movie • 2019
Papa Mizner
The Hurricane
Movie • 1999
Earl Martin
North
Movie • 1994
Umpire
American Gangster
Movie • 2007
Private Doctor
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 2014
Lord Capulet
Our Song
Movie • 2000
Benjamin
A Vigilante
Movie • 2019
Lawyer
Gloria
Movie • 1999
Male Guard
Evening
Movie • 2007
Ray
Criminal Justice
Movie • 1990
Judge Whitney
The Juror
Movie • 1996
Stockbroker
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
Movie • 2015
Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
Movie • 2019
Leonato
The Peacemaker
Movie • 1997
NYPD Cop
Chapter 27
Movie • 2007
Cabbie
Vacation Friends
Movie • 2021
Larry
After All
Movie
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Movie • 2013
Chauncey Eskridge
Sweet Nothing
Movie • 1995
Mark the Cop
NYPD Blue
TV • 1993
Bus Driver
New Amsterdam
TV • 2018
Leon Hargrow
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Walters' Attorney
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Art Samuels
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Lester Poole
Gossip Girl
TV • 2007
Horace Rogers
Power Book II: Ghost
TV • 2020
Reverend Macedon
White Collar
TV • 2009
Parole Officer
Strangers with Candy
TV • 1999
Sack Race Referee
The Blacklist: Redemption
TV • 2017
General Phillips
New York Undercover
TV • 1994
Sawyer
God Friended Me
TV • 2018
Larry
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Rolando August
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Mr. Tassler
House of Cards
TV • 2013
Barney Hull
Bull
TV • 2016
Judge Elmendorf
Hack
TV • 2002
Hayden
Poker Face
TV • 2023
Deuteronomy
Without a Trace
TV • 2002
Barry's Ex-Boss
Little Voice
TV • 2020
Percy
The First Lady
TV • 2022
Martin Luther King Sr.
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Drew MacDaniel
100 Centre Street
TV • 2001
Charlie the Bridgeman
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Gerard Gallo
Third Watch
TV • 1999
Lieutenant Kyle
Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
Mitch Sarno
Nurse Jackie
TV • 2009
Intestine Man