Melville Cooper

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Melville Cooper (October 15, 1896, Birmingham, England - March 13, 1973, Los Angeles, California) was a British stage, film and television actor. Among his best-known 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.

[edit] Partial filmography

The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) Thin Ice (1937) The Great Garrick (1937) Tovarich (1937) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Four's a Crowd (1938) Dramatic School (1938) The Dawn Patrol (1938) Too Many Husbands (1940) Rebecca (1940) Pride and Prejudice (1940) The Lady Eve (1941) Scotland Yard (1941)

You Belong to Me (1941) This Above All (1942) The Affairs of Martha (1942) Random Harvest (1942) Immortal Sergeant (1943) Hit Parade of 1943 (1943) Holy Matrimony (1943) 13 Rue Madeleine (1947) Love Happy (1949) Father of the Bride (1950) It Should Happen to You (1954) Moonfleet (1955) Diane (1956) The Story of Mankind (1957) From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

[edit] External links

• Melville Cooper at the Internet Movie Database
• Melville Cooper at the Internet Broadway Database