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Charles Darwin Cooper (August 11, 1926 – November 29, 2013) was an American actor who played a wide variety of television and film roles from 1950 to 2001. On Broadway, Cooper appeared in The Winner (1954) and All You Need Is One Good Break (1950).[1]

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Charles Darwin Cooper
Charles Darwin Cooper in The Wrong Man 1956
Born	(1926-08-11)August 11, 1926 San Francisco California, USA
Died	November 29, 2013(2013-11-29) (aged 87) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film, television actor
Years active	1950-2001

In 1958 he played outlaw Cando in Season 3 Episode 36 of "Gunsmoke" titled "Chester's Hanging." Also in 1958, Cooper played the outlaw Tate Masters in the episode "Twelve Guns" of NBC's Western television series Cimarron City with George Montgomery and John Smith. In 1959, he played a gunfighter, Jack Rollins, in the episode "The Visitor" of Lawman, an ABC/Warner Bros. Television Western series. He was cast as Matt Yordy in the 1961 episode "Honest Abe" of Chuck Connors' The Rifleman.

Cooper made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Philip Strague in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Buried Clock". His final appearance in 1962 was as Ben Willoughby in "The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal".

Cooper is perhaps best remembered for his appearances in Star Trek-related roles. He played the Klingon chancellor K'mpec in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Sins of the Father" and "Reunion" and the Klingon General Korrd in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

His other film roles included appearances in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man (1956), A Dog's Best Friend (1959), the comedy Valet Girls (1987), and the action film Blind Fury (1989) starring Rutger Hauer.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1950	Mr. H.C. Andersen
1956	The Wrong Man	Det. Matthews
1959	A Dog's Best Friend	Deputy Sheriff Bill Beamer
1961	Gun Fight	Cole Fender
1969	The Big Bounce	Senator
1978	Rabbit Test	Second Presidential Aide
1983	Sweetwater	Vince Cunningham
1987	Valet Girls	Victor Smegmite
1989	Twice Under	Sgt. Fitz
1989	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier	General Korrd
1989	Blind Fury	Ed Cobb
1995	Panther	Sheriff
1995	Huntress: Spirit of the Night	Ty Bodi
2001	April's Fool	Jimmy

References

External links

• Charles Cooper at IMDb
• Charles Cooper at the Internet Broadway Database
• Charles Cooper at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Obituary - LA Times

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