Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper
John Cooper, Jr., known as Jackie Cooper, was an American actor, television director, producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to make the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. At age nine, he was also the youngest performer to have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role—an honor that he received for the film Skippy. For nearly 50 years, Cooper...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 September 1922
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I had directed a little in summer theater, and I liked it, and I started getting interested in directing, in live television.
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Also, I was very excited about somebody considering I had a talent they could develop a little bit, and very anxious to please.
They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
There was nothing real about teenagers - nobody talked about them in those days, nobody did anything about them.
Our defense is playing really well. They've really gelled. We played hard and didn't give up so I was pleased. To hang with (Granite Hills) gives us confidence.
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
(Granite Hills) is a tough team. We just couldn't penetrate them. We had opportunities but we couldn't put it in.
So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.
I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
If it's boring, then it's tiring.