Melville Cooper
Acting • Born 1896-10-14 – Died 1973-03-31
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melville Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
81 credits
The Lady Eve
Movie • 1941
Gerald
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
Mr. Talley
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Movie • 1938
High Sheriff of Nottingham
It Should Happen to You
Movie • 1954
Guest Panelist
Father of the Bride
Movie • 1950
Mr. Tringle
Black Coffee
Movie • 1931
Insp. Japp
Random Harvest
Movie • 1942
George
Love Happy
Movie • 1949
Lefty Throckmorton
The Underworld Story
Movie • 1950
Major Redford
Blind Alley
Movie • 1939
George Curtis
The Red Danube
Movie • 1949
Private David Moonlight
Heartbeat
Movie • 1946
Roland Latour
Moonfleet
Movie • 1955
Felix Ratsey
Diane
Movie • 1956
1st Court Physician
The Story of Mankind
Movie • 1957
Major Domo
Bundle of Joy
Movie • 1956
Adams, the Butler
Tovarich
Movie • 1937
Charles Dupont
The Flame of New Orleans
Movie • 1941
Brother-in-Law
Thin Ice
Movie • 1937
Krantz
From the Earth to the Moon
Movie • 1958
Bancroft
Murder Over New York
Movie • 1940
Herbert 'Snuffy' Fenton
The Private Life of Don Juan
Movie • 1934
Leporello
The Dawn Patrol
Movie • 1938
Sgt. Watkins
Four's a Crowd
Movie • 1938
Bingham, Dillingwell's Butler
13 Rue Madeleine
Movie • 1947
Pappy Simpson
You Belong to Me
Movie • 1941
Moody
Rendezvous
Movie • 1935
Doorman (uncredited)
Too Many Husbands
Movie • 1940
Peter
The King's Thief
Movie • 1955
Henry Wynch
The Gorgeous Hussy
Movie • 1936
Cuthbert
The Petty Girl
Movie • 1950
Beardsley (Petty's butler, aka Uncle Ben)
Gold Diggers in Paris
Movie • 1938
Pierre aka Fernand LeBrec
The Great Garrick
Movie • 1937
M. W. Picard
Holy Matrimony
Movie • 1943
Dr. Caswell
And Baby Makes Three
Movie • 1949
Gibson
Garden of the Moon
Movie • 1938
Maurice
Dramatic School
Movie • 1938
Boulin
The Imperfect Lady
Movie • 1946
Lord Montglyn
The Sun Never Sets
Movie • 1939
Cosey
The Affairs of Martha
Movie • 1942
Dr. Clarence Sommerfield
Hard to Get
Movie • 1938
John Case
Women Are Like That
Movie • 1938
Mainwaring
Comet Over Broadway
Movie • 1938
Emerson
Let's Dance
Movie • 1950
Charles Wagstaffe
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Movie • 1942
Barty
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Movie • 1949
Dr. John H. Watson
The General's Boots
Movie • 1954
Mr. Burnham
This Above All
Movie • 1942
Wilbur
Immortal Sergeant
Movie • 1943
Pilcher
Hit Parade of 1943
Movie • 1943
Bradley Cole
Scotland Yard
Movie • 1941
Dr. Crownfield
Rebecca
Movie • 1940
Coroner
I'm from Missouri
Movie • 1939
Hearne
Pride and Prejudice
Movie • 1940
Mr. Collins
The Bishop Misbehaves
Movie • 1935
Collins
Escape to Glory
Movie • 1940
Ship's Mate Penney
All Riot on the Western Front
Movie • 1930
The Calendar
Movie • 1931
Mr. Wayne
Two White Arms
Movie • 1932
Mack
My Kingdom for a Cook
Movie • 1943
Angus Sheffield
Enchantment
Movie • 1948
Jeweler
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Movie • 1942
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Movie • 1934
Romney
Two Bright Boys
Movie • 1939
Hilary Harrington
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Movie • 1937
William
Leave It to Me
Movie • 1933
Honorable Freddie
To Brighton with Gladys
Movie • 1933
Slingby
The Fabulous Oliver Chantry
Movie • 1953
Martin
Where's Charley?
Movie • 1957
Brassett the Valet
Studio One
TV • 1948
Nilghai
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Mullet
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Watts
West Point
TV • 1956
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Mr. Burnham
Climax!
TV • 1954
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Flaky
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Mullet / Pat Lummock
I've Got a Secret
TV • 1952
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV • 1958
Binky