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.
Movie | Everything's Going to Be Great | 2025 | |
Movie | Boston Strangler | Jack Maclaine | 2023-03-16 |
Movie | With/In Volume 2 | 2022-03-15 | |
Movie | With/In Volume 2 | (segment "Nuts") | 2021-06-14 |
Movie | Irresistible | Jack Hastings | 2020-07-01 |
Movie | It Takes a Lunatic | Self | 2019-05-03 |
Movie | Henrietta Bulkowski | Danny Wilcox | 2019-03-08 |
Movie | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Jerry Vogel | 2019-09-07 |
Movie | Them That Work | Self | 2019-10-29 |
Movie | Little Women | Mr. Laurence | 2019-12-25 |
Series | Homecoming | Leonard Geist | 2018-11-01 |
Movie | Cars 3 | Smokey Yunick (voice) | 2017-06-15 |
Series | 11.22.63 | Al Templeton | 2016-02-15 |
Movie | Coming Through the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 2016-10-13 |
Movie | Fastball | Clifford Blankenship (voice) | 2016-03-25 |
Movie | Live by Night | Chief Irving Figgis | 2016-12-25 |
Movie | Demolition | Phil Eastwood | 2015-04-08 |
Movie | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Norman Osborn (uncredited) | 2014-04-16 |
Movie | Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy | Narrator (voice) | 2013-06-19 |
Movie | Cycling's Greatest Fraud | 2013-06-23 | |
Movie | August: Osage County | Charlie Aiken | 2013-12-26 |
Movie | Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Gary (voice) | 2012-11-16 |
Movie | The Company You Keep | Daniel Sloan | 2012-09-06 |
Movie | The Muppets | Tex Richman | 2011-11-22 |
Movie | Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage) | 2010-01-01 |
Movie | Remember Me | Neil Craig | 2010-03-11 |
Movie | The Town | Stephen MacRay | 2010-09-15 |
Movie | The Company Men | Phil Woodward | 2010-10-21 |
Movie | The Tempest | Antonio | 2010-09-11 |
Movie | Amigo | Col. Hardacre | 2010-07-14 |
Movie | Where the Wild Things Are | Douglas (voice) | 2009-10-16 |
Movie | The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Himself (Narrator) | 2009-02-09 |
Movie | Extreme Movie | FBI Agent Mike (uncredited) | 2008-12-05 |
Movie | Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman (voice) | 2008-04-14 |
Movie | New York, I Love You | Alex | 2008-09-06 |
Movie | Breach | Robert Hanssen | 2007-02-12 |
Movie | The Kingdom | Grant Sykes | 2007-08-22 |
Movie | Married Life | Harry Allen | 2007-09-12 |
Movie | Making Capote: Concept to Script | Self | 2006-03-21 |
Movie | Primo Levi's Journey | Narrator (voice) (U.S. version) | 2006-09-12 |
Movie | Capote | Alvin Dewey | 2005-09-30 |
Movie | Syriana | Jimmy Pope | 2005-11-23 |
Movie | Jarhead | Lt. Col. Kazinski | 2005-11-04 |
Movie | Silver City | Dickie Pilager | 2004-09-17 |
Movie | The Bourne Supremacy | Alexander Conklin | 2004-07-23 |
Movie | My House in Umbria | Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith | 2003-05-25 |
Movie | Seabiscuit | Tom Smith | 2003-07-22 |
Movie | Interstate 60 | Bob Cody | 2002-04-13 |
Movie | The Bourne Identity | Alexander Conklin | 2002-06-14 |
Movie | Adaptation. | John Laroche | 2002-12-06 |
Movie | Me, Myself & Irene | Lieutenant Gerke | 2000-06-22 |
Movie | The Patriot | Col. Harry Burwell | 2000-06-28 |
Movie | American Beauty: Look Closer... | Self | 2000-10-24 |
Movie | October Sky | John Hickam | 1999-02-19 |
Movie | American Beauty | Colonel Fitts | 1999-09-15 |
Movie | Great Expectations | Joe | 1998-01-30 |
Movie | The Horse Whisperer | Frank Booker | 1998-02-01 |
Movie | Alone | Gus Jr. | 1997-12-21 |
Movie | Breast Men | Dr. William Larson | 1997-12-13 |
Movie | The Deliverance of Elaine | Charlie Skyler | 1996-04-10 |
Movie | Boys | Mr. John Baker | 1996-05-10 |
Movie | Lone Star | Sam Deeds | 1996-06-21 |
Movie | A Time to Kill | Dwayne Looney | 1996-07-24 |
Movie | Money Train | Torch | 1995-11-21 |
Movie | Pharaoh's Army | Captain John Hull Abston | 1995-04-09 |
Movie | One More Mountain | Jack Reed | 1994-03-06 |
Series | Return to Lonesome Dove | July Johnson | 1993-11-14 |
Movie | This Boy's Life | Roy | 1993-04-09 |
Movie | Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life | Anthony Blessing | 1992-04-14 |
Movie | Bed of Lies | Price Daniel, Jr. | 1992-01-20 |
Movie | Thousand Pieces of Gold | Charlie | 1991-04-26 |
Movie | In Broad Daylight | Jack Wilson | 1991-02-03 |
Movie | Guilty by Suspicion | Larry Nolan | 1991-03-15 |
Movie | City of Hope | Riggs | 1991-10-11 |
Movie | To the Moon, Alice | Frank Wiliker | 1991-10-02 |
Movie | Darrow | Eugene Debs | 1991-06-08 |
Movie | A Little Piece of Sunshine | Ernie Favaro | 1990-11-17 |
Series | Law & Order | Defense Attorney Roy Payne | 1990-09-13 |
Series | Lonesome Dove | July Johnson | 1989-02-05 |
Series | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 1988-10-04 |
Movie | Matewan | Joe Kenehan | 1987-08-28 |
Series | The Equalizer | Michael | 1985-09-18 |
Series | Miami Vice | Jimmy Yagovitch | 1984-09-16 |
Series | The Oscars | Self | 1953-03-19 |