Charles Cooper

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

Biography In 1958 he played outlaw Cando in Season 3 Episode 36 of "Gunsmoke" titled "Chester's Hanging", and again as murderer Jim Box in the S4E17 episode “Young Love”.

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 and played Lt. William Rath in "The Deserter" episode of Tales of Wells Fargo. 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. He also played Larsen in S5 E6 "I Take This Woman" which aired 11/4/1962, and Rudy Croft S4 E4 "The Stand In" that aired 10/23/1961.

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.

Cooper died in 2013. He was survived by his wife Pamela Searle and their three children.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1950 Mr. H.C. Andersen 1956 The Wrong Man Detective Matthews 1957 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Bernard K. Froy Season 2 Episodes 25, 26, 27: "I Killed the Count Part 1", "I Killed the Count Part 2", "I Killed the Count Part 3"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 Sergeant 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