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  • Date of Birth: 15 September, 1922
  • Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  • Biography: Jackie Cooper (September 15, 1922) is an American actor, TV director, TV producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to transition to an adult career. As of 2009, Cooper's Oscar-nominated performance in Skippy is the earliest nomination (1931) for an Academy Award for Best Actor in which... Read more

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It wasn't all that bad being a kid movie star in the 1930s.Many of them have lived long lives -- the dead ones mostly being the children who appeared in Our Gang/Little Rascals movies. ... Full Article

Father's Day differs from Mother's Day in that it is not a bring the flowers and go to brunch occasion. Dad's day is about catching an afternoon ballgame or throwing a BBQ with plenty of cold ones on ice. ... Full Article

American actor Jackie Cooper was in movies at the age of three; his father had abandoned the family when Jackie was two, forcing his mother to rely upon the boy's acting income to keep food on the table. ... Full Article

Percy Crosby's popular newspaper comic strip Skippy comes to life in this 1931 film. Designed as a vehicle for Our Gang's Jackie Cooper -- then all of nine years old -- Skippy jettisons most of the trenchant cynicism of Crosby's... ... Full Article

Jackie Cooper and father Wallace Beery - an ex-boxer who he calls "Champ" instead of "Dad" or "Pop" - bum around in Tijuana, Cooper sleeping in the gambling halls where "The Champ" spends his nights and together, the two of... ... Full Article

Nicknamed "Echo," Dorothy De Borba was the little brunette with the festive hair bows in the 1930-1933 Our Gang comedy shorts. De Borba arrived in the series at the dawn of sound, along with Jackie Cooper, Chubby Chaney, Stymie Beard,... ... Full Article

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