Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/14/1896
Place of Birth
Birmingham, England, UK
Also Known As
George Melville Cooper
Melville Cooper
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 Amer...
Known For
Random Harvest
as George
Hit Parade of 1943
as Bradley Cole
Diane
as 1st Court Physician
Blind Alley
as George Curtis
Rendezvous
as Doorman (uncredited)
Heartbeat
as Roland Latour
Scotland Yard
as Dr. Crownfield
Moonfleet
as Felix Ratsey
Tovarich
as Charles Dupont
Love Happy
as Lefty Throckmorton
Dramatic School
as Boulin
Rebecca
as Coroner
Murder Over New York
as Herbert 'Snuffy' Fenton
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as High Sheriff of Nottingham
Enchantment
as Jeweler
The Private Life of Don Juan
as Leporello
Around the World in 80 Days
as Mr. Talley
13 Rue Madeleine
as Pappy Simpson
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Unknown Role
Father of the Bride
as Mr. Tringle
Career Timeline
1956
1955
1954
1950
1949
1943
1942
1941
1940
1939
1938
The Dawn Patrol
as Sgt. Watkins
Dramatic School
as Boulin
Comet Over Broadway
as Emerson
Hard to Get
as John Case
Garden of the Moon
as Maurice
Four's a Crowd
as Bingham, Dillingwell's Butler
Gold Diggers in Paris
as Pierre aka Fernand LeBrec
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as High Sheriff of Nottingham
Women Are Like That
as Mainwaring