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John Cooper Jr.
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Served with the Navy in the South Pacific toward the end of World War II. Then, quietly and without publicity or fanfare, compiled one of the most distinguished peacetime military careers of anyone in his profession. In 1961, as his weekly TV series Hennesey (1959) was enhancing naval recruiting efforts, accepted a commission as a line officer in the Naval Reserve with duties in recruitment, training films, and public relations. Holder of a multi-engine pilot license, he later co-piloted jet planes for the Navy, which made him an Honorary Aviator authorized to wear wings of gold-at the time only the third so honored in naval aviation history. By 1976 he had attained the rank of captain, and was in uniform aboard the carrier USS Constellation for the Bicentennial celebration on July 4. In 1980, the Navy proposed a period of active duty at the Pentagon that would have resulted in a promotion to rear admiral, bringing him even with Air Force Reserve Brigadier General James Stewart. Fresh on the heels of a second directing Emmy, he felt his absence would impact achieving a long-held goal of directing motion pictures, and reluctantly declined. (The opportunity in films never materialized.) Holds Letters of Commendation from six secretaries of the Navy. Was honorary chairman of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation and a charter member of VIVA, the effort to return POW-MIAs from Vietnam. Upon retirement in 1982, he was decorated with the Legion of Merit by Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr.. Other than Stewart, no performer in his industry has achieved a higher uniformed rank in the U.S. military. (Glenn Ford was also a Naval Reserve captain, and director and Captain John Ford was awarded honorary flag rank upon his 1951 retirement from the Naval Reserve).
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1922-09-15
- event Death Date 2011-05-03
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 5
- info Birth Place Los Angeles, California, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Jackie Cooper
7.1
Superman
1978-12-14
0
The Ghosts
1930-04-05
4.6
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987-07-24
6.7
Superman II
1980-12-12
6.5
Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25
5.6
Superman III
1983-06-17
7.1
The Champ
1931-11-21
6.3
The Return of Frank James
1940-08-10
6.5
Treasure Island
1934-08-17
0
The Our Gang Story
1994-01-01
0
Gangster's Boy
1938-11-16
6
Skippy
1931-04-25
3.5
Lone Cowboy
1933-12-02
5.4
Chosen Survivors
1974-05-24
4.6
Broadway to Hollywood
1933-09-15
6
Glamour Boy
1941-12-05
6.8
Syncopation
1942-05-22
0
Men of Texas
1942-07-03
5.6
The Navy Comes Through
1942-10-30
4.9
Surrender
1987-10-09
5.8
White Banners
1938-06-23
6
Boxing Gloves
1929-09-09
6.1
Pups Is Pups
1930-08-30
6
Divorce In The Family
1932-08-27
7.5
Everything's Ducky
1961-12-20
5.7
Peck's Bad Boy
1934-10-18
3
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
1929-05-25
0
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941-08-15
5.7
The Astronaut
1972-01-08
5.6
Journey into Fear
1975-08-08
6.5
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
0
Seventeen
1940-03-01
4.6
Tough Guy
1936-01-24
0
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932-10-20
5.4
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
1971-02-16
7.2
Gallant Sons
1940-11-15
5.5
Moan & Groan, Inc.
1929-12-07
6
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1935-09-27
4
Where Are Your Children?
1943-11-26
0
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2
2021-08-03
6.8
Bear Facts
1938-03-05
6.7
Dinky
1935-05-11
5
Boy of the Streets
1938-01-08
6.1
When the Wind Blows
1930-04-05
5
Life with Henry
1941-01-23
8.5
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995-06-05
6
Newsboys' Home
1938-12-24
5.1
The Bowery
1933-10-07
6.1
Bouncing Babies
1929-10-11
5.7
Shivering Shakespeare
1930-01-25
5.2
The First Seven Years
1930-03-01
5.2
Bear Shooters
1930-05-16
10
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997-03-16
6.3
The Day the Earth Moved
1974-09-18
4.2
The Love Machine
1971-08-14
0
What a Life
1939-10-05
6.9
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936-09-18
2
When a Feller Needs a Friend
1932-04-30
5
The Christmas Party
1931-12-17
0
The Spirit of Culver
1939-03-10
0
Mobile Two
1975-09-02
7
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
1962-01-06
7.3
Sunny Side Up
1929-12-25
5.1
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939-10-13
5.4
A Tough Winter
1930-06-21
7.2
Teacher's Pet
1930-10-11
6.8
School's Out
1930-11-21
6.8
Helping Grandma
1931-01-03
6.9
Love Business
1931-02-14
7
Little Daddy
1931-03-28
6.7
The Making of 'Superman III'
1985-08-26
5.3
Rodeo Dough
1940-11-09
7
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972-05-01
8
Shadow on the Land
1968-12-04
0
French Leave
1948-04-10
0
Soaring Stars
1942-04-25
5
That Certain Age
1938-10-06
0
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 1
2021-06-01
0
Scouts to the Rescue
1939-01-17
7
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
2000-08-03
6.3
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1980-01-01
7.5
The Making of 'Superman II'
1982-01-01
7.5
Judy Garland: By Myself
2004-02-25
5.7
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975-08-06
6
Calhoun
1964-07-08
0
Young Donovan's Kid
1931-06-06
5
Kilroy Was Here
1947-07-19
7.5
Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman
2006-06-12
1
Sooky
1931-12-26
6
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934-03-02
5
Her First Beau
1941-05-08
0
Big John Morrison
1973-10-23
6
Bargain Day
1931-05-01
7.3
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
2006-11-02
0
Stork Bites Man
1947-06-21
5.6
Streets of New York
1939-04-12
7
Rascal Dazzle
1981-01-01
8.4
The Invisible Man
1975-05-06
0
Hollywood’s Children
1982-02-24
0
No Earthly Reason
1984-04-03
0
Two Bright Boys
1939-09-21
0
The Big Guy
1939-12-22
6
Inside the Dream Factory
1995-11-01
7.3
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
2001-10-01
0
Ticket to Hollywood
1984-05-01
6
You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman
2006-11-28
5.5
St. Elsewhere
1982-10-26
7.3
Texaco Star Theater
1948-06-08
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30
8.1
Columbo
1971-09-15
5
The Dick Powell Show
1961-09-26
7
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950-09-10
0
The Great Adventure
1963-09-27
5.6
The F.B.I.
1965-09-19
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
7
Kojak
1973-10-24
4.7
Studio One
1948-11-07
6
General Electric Theater
1953-02-01
8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959-10-02
6.9
Ironside
1967-03-28
7.4
To Tell the Truth
1956-12-18
6.8
Hec Ramsey
1972-09-13
5.3
Cowboy G-Men
1952-09-13
5
Mobile One
1975-09-12
6.9
Police Story
1973-03-20
6
Hennesey
1959-09-28
6
Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02
7.1
McCloud
1970-02-17
7
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
5.5
Your Show of Shows
1950-02-25
5.8
The United States Steel Hour
1953-10-27
6.3
The Danny Kaye Show
1963-09-25
6
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948-10-03
5.3
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956-10-05
6.4
Producers' Showcase
1954-10-18
4.7
Suspense
1949-01-06
5.2
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30
4
The People's Choice
1955-10-06
6
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre
1948-09-27
6
Tales of Tomorrow
1951-08-03
8
Danger
1950-09-26
5
The Steve Allen Show
1956-06-24
0
Pursuit
1958-10-22
6.3
Telephone Time
1956-04-08
0
Mantrap
1971-08-27
0
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953-06-23
0
Medallion Theatre
1953-07-11
0
The Clock
1949-05-16
0
Starlight Theatre
1950-04-02
7.1
Ghost Story
1972-09-15
7
The Elgin Hour
1954-10-05
0
Justice
1954-04-08
0
It Was a Very Good Year
1971-08-02
0
The Gertrude Berg Show
1961-10-04
0
The Motorola Television Hour
1953-11-03
0
MGM Parade
1955-09-14
0
The Dean Martin Comedy World
1974-06-06
7
The George Gobel Show
1954-10-02
5.1
The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11
7
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
6
Lux Video Theatre
1950-10-02
5
The Dick Powell Show
1961-09-26
5
The Dick Powell Show
1961-09-26
5.2
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30
5.2
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30
5.2
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30
5.2
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30
5.2
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950-01-30
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01
4.7
Studio One
1948-11-07
7.6
The Rockford Files
1974-09-13
4.7
Studio One
1948-11-07
7.6
The Rockford Files
1974-09-13
5
The Steve Allen Show
1956-06-24
4.7
Suspense
1949-01-06
4.7
Suspense
1949-01-06
6.8
What's My Line?
1950-02-02
6
Capital News
1990-04-09
5.6
The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01
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5.6
The Night They Saved Christmas
1984-12-13
5.6
Rodeo Girl
1980-09-17
5.6
Moonlight
1982-09-14
5.6
White Mama
1980-03-05
5.6
Leave 'Em Laughing
1981-04-29
5.6
Rainbow
1978-11-06
5.6
Izzy & Moe
1985-09-23
5.6
The Ladies
1987-06-26
5.6
The Ladies
1987-06-26
5.6
Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
1982-12-08
5.6
Perfect Gentlemen
1978-03-14
5.6
Stand Up and Be Counted
1972-05-01
5.6
The Deacon Street Deer
1986-05-18
5.6
Marathon
1980-01-30
5.6
Sex and the Single Parent
1979-09-19
5.6
Having Babies III
1978-03-03
5.6
Sledge Hammer!
1986-09-23
5.6
Magnum, P.I.
1980-12-11
5.6
M*A*S*H
1972-09-17
5.6
The White Shadow
1978-11-27
5.6
Hennesey
1959-09-28
5.6
Trapper John, M.D.
1979-09-23
5.6
The Law & Harry McGraw
1987-09-27
5.6
Cagney & Lacey
1982-03-25
5.6
Quincy, M.E.
1976-10-03
5.6
McMillan & Wife
1971-09-29
5.6
Glitter
1984-09-13
5.6
Jake and the Fatman
1987-09-26
5.6
Superboy
1988-10-08
5.6
Ohara
1987-01-17
5.6
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970-09-19
5.6
Supercarrier
1988-03-06
5.6
Paris
1979-09-29
5.6
Spies
1987-03-03
5.6
The Feather And Father Gang
1977-03-07
5.6
The Rockford Files
1974-09-13
5.6
Ensign O'Toole
1962-09-23
5.6
Holmes & Yo-Yo
1976-09-25