Tommy Cooper

Tommy Cooper was born on Mar 19, 1921 in UK. Tommy Cooper's big-screen debut came with Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium - Season 1 directed by Bill Lyon-Shaw in 1955, strarring Self. Tommy Cooper is known for It's Tommy Cooper directed by Bill Turner, Tommy Cooper stars as Self and Peter Reeves as 12 episodes, 1969-1970. The upcoming new movie Tommy Cooper plays is It's Your Move which will be released on Oct 18, 1982.

After leaving the army Tommy Cooper took up show business in 1947 and so started his long career of comedy derived around visual humour, magic tricks that didn't work and his trademark red fez, a prop that started from his days in the army. The BBC described him as an "Unattractive young man with an extremely unfortunate appearance" in an audition for new talent.