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Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including American Beauty (1999), October Sky (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove, which became one of the most successful Westerns in history.
Cooper won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John …
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Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including American Beauty (1999), October Sky (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove, which became one of the most successful Westerns in history. Cooper won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John Laroche in the 2002 film Adaptation. He played a lead role in the historical and political thriller Breach (2007), playing FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen. He played Daniel Sloan in the 2012 political thriller The Company You Keep, and supervillain Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He also portrayed Al Templeton on the 2016 Hulu miniseries 11.22.63. He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, including Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991), Lone Star (1996), Silver City (2004) and Amigo (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The History of Sound
as Older Lionel
Everything's Going to Be Great
as Walter
Boston Strangler
as Jack Maclaine
With/In Volume 2
as (segment "Nuts")
Irresistible
as Jack Hastings
Little Women
as Mr. Laurence
Them That Work
as Self
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
as Jerry Vogel
It Takes a Lunatic
as Self
Henrietta Bulkowski
as Danny Wilcox
Intelligent Lives
as Self
Cars 3
as Smokey (voice)
Live by Night
as Chief Irving Figgis
Coming Through the Rye
as J.D. Salinger
Demolition
as Phil Eastwood
Fastball
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
August: Osage County
as Charlie Aiken
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Company You Keep
as Daniel Sloan
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
as Gary (voice)
The Muppets
as Tex Richman
Amigo
as Col. Hardacre
The Company Men
as Phil Woodward
The Town
as Stephen MacRay
The Tempest
as Antonio
Remember Me
as Neil Craig
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
Where the Wild Things Are
as Douglas (voice)
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
as Himself (Narrator)
Extreme Movie
as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
New York, I Love You
as Alex
Walt Whitman
as Walt Whitman (voice)
Married Life
as Harry Allen
The Kingdom
as Grant Sykes
Breach
as Robert Hanssen
Primo Levi's Journey
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
Making Capote: Concept to Script
as Self
Syriana
as Jimmy Pope
Jarhead
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
Capote
as Alvin Dewey
No Poster
The Making of 'Seabiscuit'
as Self
Silver City
as Dickie Pilager
The Bourne Supremacy
as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)
No Poster
Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend
as Self
Seabiscuit
as Tom Smith
No Poster
'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend
as Self
My House in Umbria
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
Adaptation.
as John Laroche
The Bourne Identity
as Alexander Conklin
Interstate 60
as Bob Cody
American Beauty: Look Closer...
as Self
The Patriot
as Col. Harry Burwell
Me, Myself & Irene
as Lieutenant Gerke
American Beauty
as Colonel Fitts
October Sky
as John Hickam
The 24 Hour Woman
as Ron Hacksby
The Horse Whisperer
as Frank Booker
Great Expectations
as Joe
Alone
as Gus Jr.
Breast Men
as Dr. William Larson
A Time to Kill
as Dwayne Looney
Lone Star
as Sam Deeds
Boys
as Mr. John Baker
The Deliverance of Elaine
as Charlie Skyler
Money Train
as Torch
Pharaoh's Army
as Captain John Hull Abston
One More Mountain
as Jack Reed
This Boy's Life
as Roy
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
as Anthony Blessing
Bed of Lies
as Price Daniel, Jr.
City of Hope
as Riggs
To The Moon, Alice
as Frank Wiliker
Darrow
as Eugene Debs
Thousand Pieces of Gold
as Charlie
Guilty by Suspicion
as Larry Nolan
In Broad Daylight
as Jack Wilson
A Little Piece of Sunshine
as Ernie Favaro
Matewan
as Joe Kenehan
Bad Timing
as Eddie
No Poster
I Passed This Way
No Poster
Light on Broken Glass
as Jay