Ben Cooper

Ben Cooper was born on Sep 30, 1933 in USA. Ben Cooper's big-screen debut came with Side Street directed by Anthony Mann in 1950, strarring Young Man at Cleaners (uncredited). Ben Cooper is known for The Sky's the Limit directed by Tom Leetch, Pat O'Brien stars as Abner Therman and Lloyd Nolan as Cornwall. The most recent award Ben Cooper achieved is Golden Boot Awards. The upcoming new movie Ben Cooper plays is Wish I Was Here which will be released on Jul 25, 2014.

Handsome, boyish-looking Ben Cooper graduated from child roles to playing juvenile leads in second features, often for Poverty Row studio Republic. As a nine year old, he made his stage debut in Bretaigne Windust's Broadway production of Life With Father, remaining in the cast for the entire run of the play. Between 1946 and 1952, Ben enjoyed a lengthy spell on the airwaves, lending his voice to many a famous radio soap of the day. A graduate of New York's Columbia University, he was featured on screen for the first time in a bit part in 1950. Three years later, he played Jesse James in a cameo in La femme qui faillit être lynchée (1953). His career made little headway until he was cast as brash would-be gunslinger Turkey Ralston in the noirish cult western Johnny Guitare (1954).Ben's forte was the western. He had his own horse by the age of twelve, became an adept rider and diligently rehearsed the stunts he saw on the screen. He also perfected the fast draw, practising "for 90 minutes each day over four years". During most of the early 50s, he went about playing assorted hombres on both sides of the law in B-westerns. He never quite managed to set the prairie on fire. A mere handful of starring turns confined him to staid leading men in run-of-the-mill oaters (Bagarre à Apache Wells (1957)) or routine melodramas (A Strange Adventure (1956)). Arguably, his most effective performance in a motion picture was in La rose tatouée (1955) (as the good-natured sailor in love with Marisa Pavan). Unable to find the one role which would have made him a household name, Ben eventually pursued a solid, if unremarkable, career as a television guest star with a predilection for westerns (Laramie (1959), Bonanza (1959), Gunsmoke (1955) ) and crime dramas (Perry Mason (1957), Mannix (1967)). His work in the former earned him a Golden Boot Award in 2005.