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Jackie Cooper dies at 88; child star in the 1930s

Jackie Cooper, whose tousled blond hair, pouty lower lip and ability to cry on camera helped make him one of the top child stars of the 1930s in films such as “Skippy” and “The Champ,” has died. He was 88.

Cooper, who grew up to become a successful TV star in the 1950s, a top television studio executive in the ‘60s and an Emmy Award-winning director in the ‘70s, died Tuesday at a skilled nursing facility in Santa Monica after a brief illness, said his son John.

A former “Our Gang” cast member who began his Hollywood career as an extra in silent movies at age 3, Cooper shot to stardom at 8 playing the title role in “Skippy,” the 1931 film based on a popular comic strip about a health inspector’s son and his ragamuffin pal, Sooky.

The film, in which Cooper had three signature crying scenes, earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor in a leading role. Lionel Barrymore won the Oscar that year and Cooper had only a vague memory of the ceremony: He fell asleep on actress Marie Dressler’s lap.

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Jackie Cooper

American actor and director (1922–2011)

Not to be confused with Jackie Coogan.

For others uses, see Jacki Cooper and John Cooper.

Jackie Cooper
Cooper in 1956
Born	John Cooper Jr. (1922-09-15)September 15, 1922 Los Angeles, California
Died	May 3, 2011(2011-05-03) (aged 88) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Resting place	Arlington National Cemetery
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1928–1990
Spouses	June Horne (m. 1944; div. 1949) Hildy Parks (m. 1950; div. 1951) Barbara Rae Kraus (m. 1954; died 2009)
Children	4

John Cooper Jr. (September 15, 1922 – May 3, 2011) was an American actor and director. Known as Jackie Cooper, he began his career performing in film as a child, and successfully transitioned to adult roles and directing in both film and television. At age nine, he became the only child and youngest person nominated for the Ac

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Jackie Cooper obituary

Jackie Cooper, who has died aged 88, was the first child star of the talkies, paving the way for Freddie Bartholomew, Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney. While they could turn on the waterworks when called for, Cooper beat them all easily at the crying game. Little Jackie, from the age of eight until his early teens, blubbed his way effectively through a number of tearjerkers. Sometimes he would try to suppress his tears, pouting and saying, "Ah, shucks! Ah, shucks!" As a critic wrote in 1934: "Jackie Cooper's tear ducts, having been more or less in abeyance for the past few months, have been opened up to provide an autumn freshet in Peck's Bad Boy."

Cooper had started off in the movies billed as "the little tough guy" in eight of Hal Roach's Our Gang comedy shorts. He was a manly little fellow and complained to his mother when, during the shooting of the fight scene in Dinky (1935), the other children were warned to be careful not to hurt him. "I don't want fellows like these to treat me like a sissy!" he said.

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