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
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
I'm very pleased with where we are right now. At the beginning of the season our goal was to make the playoffs and here we are.
I need a steady job like running in this new series, because we own the negative to every show that goes on the air, my partner and I.
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.
You've just got to be careful with them,
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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.
I got schooled over at NBC on a soap opera, and I had a Sunday-afternoon show, an hour show sponsored by the Ford Foundation, a documentary, half live with film integration. I directed that.
But the working I would always want to do.
So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
We definitely would have to look for other funding.
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.