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Christopher Walton Cooper is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including the drama American Beauty (1999), the biopic about a NASA engineer titled October Sky (1999), the action spy film The Bourne Identity (2002), the biographical sports film Seabiscuit (2003), the biographical film about Truman Capote, Capote (2005), the geopolitical thriller Syriana (2005), the action-thriller The Kingdom (2007), the crime drama The Town (2010), the musical comedy film The Muppets (2011), the biographical film about Fred Rogers, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and the coming-of-age film 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.
Born
Monday, 09 July 1951
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Boston Strangler | Jack Maclaine | 2023 |
| Irresistible | Jack Hastings | 2020 |
| Henrietta Bulkowski | Danny Wilcox | 2020 |
| Little Women | Mr. Laurence | 2019 |
| Them That Work | Self | 2019 |
| It Takes a Lunatic | Self | 2019 |
| A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Jerry Vogel | 2019 |
| Homecoming | Leonard Geist | 2018 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Intelligent Lives | Self | 2018 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Boston Strangler | Jack Maclaine | 2023 |
| Irresistible | Jack Hastings | 2020 |
| Henrietta Bulkowski | Danny Wilcox | 2020 |
| Little Women | Mr. Laurence | 2019 |
| Them That Work | Self | 2019 |
| It Takes a Lunatic | Self | 2019 |
| A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Jerry Vogel | 2019 |
| Homecoming | Leonard Geist | 2018 |
| Hollywood Insider | Self | 2018 |
| Intelligent Lives | Self | 2018 |
| Cars 3 | Smokey / Smokey Yunick (voice) | 2017 |
| The 71st Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 2017 |
| Hollywood First Look | Self | 2017 |
| Live by Night | Chief Irving Figgis / Chief Figgis | 2016 |
| Coming Through the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 2016 |
| Fastball | Clifford Blankenship (voice) / Clifford Blankenship | 2016 |
| 11.22.63 | Al Templeton | 2016 |
| Demolition | Phil / Phil Eastwood | 2015 |
| The Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Norman Osborn | 2014 |
| August: Osage County | Charlie Aiken | 2013 |
| Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy | Self - Narrator / Narrator (voice) | 2013 |
| Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
| Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Gary (voice) / Gary | 2012 |
| The Company You Keep | Daniel Sloan | 2012 |
| The Muppets | Tex Richman | 2011 |
| Amigo | Col. Hardacre | 2011 |
| On Story | Self | 2011 |
| Ben's Boston | Stephen MacRay | 2010 |
| The Tempest | Antonio | 2010 |
| The Company Men | Phil Woodward | 2010 |
| The Town | Stephen MacRay | 2010 |
| Remember Me | Sgt. Neil Craig / Neil Craig | 2010 |
| Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize | Lt. Col. Kazinski / Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage) | 2010 |
| For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | (voice) | 2010 |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Douglas / Douglas (voice) | 2009 |
| Johnny Cash's America | Narrator | 2008 |
| New York, I Love You | Alex (segment "Yvan Attal") / Alex | 2008 |
| Married Life | Harry Allen | 2008 |
| The Kingdom | Grant Sykes | 2007 |
| Breach | Robert Hanssen | 2007 |
| La strada di Levi | Narrator (voice) (U.S. version) | 2006 |
| Syriana | Jimmy Pope | 2005 |
| Jarhead | Lt. Col. Kazinski | 2005 |
| Capote | Alvin Dewey | 2005 |
| Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
| Silver City | Dickie Pilager | 2004 |
| The Bourne Supremacy | Conklin / Alexander Conklin | 2004 |
| The 76th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Presenter | 2004 |
| Seabiscuit | Tom Smith | 2003 |
| My House in Umbria | Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith / Thomas Riversmith | 2003 |
| The 75th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Winner | 2003 |
| Adaptation. | John Laroche | 2002 |
| The Bourne Identity | Conklin / Alexander Conklin | 2002 |
| Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road | Bob Cody | 2002 |
| Certain Proof: A Question of Worth | Self | 2001 |
| The Patriot | Col. Harry Burwell | 2000 |
| Me, Myself & Irene | Lieutenant Gerke | 2000 |
| Me, Myself and Irene | Lieutenant Gerke | 2000 |
| American Beauty | Colonel Fitts | 1999 |
| October Sky | John Hickam | 1999 |
| The 24 Hour Woman | Ron Hacksby | 1999 |
| The Horse Whisperer | Frank Booker | 1998 |
| Great Expectations | Joe | 1998 |
| Alone | Gus Jr. | 1997 |
| Breast Men | Dr. William Larson | 1997 |
| A Time to Kill | Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney / Dwayne Looney | 1996 |
| Lone Star | Sam / Sam Deeds | 1996 |
| Boys | Mr. John Baker | 1996 |
| The Deliverance of Elaine | Charile Skyler / Charlie Skyler | 1996 |
| Money Train | Torch | 1995 |
| Pharaoh's Army | Captain John Hull Abston | 1995 |
| One More Mountain | Jack Reed / James Reed | 1994 |
| Return to Lonesome Dove | July Johnson | 1993 |
| This Boy's Life | Roy | 1993 |
| HBO First Look | Self | 1992 |
| Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life | Anthony Blessing | 1992 |
| Bed of Lies | Price Daniel, Jr. | 1992 |
| City of Hope | Riggs | 1991 |
| Darrow | Eugene Debs | 1991 |
| Thousand Pieces of Gold | Charlie / Charlie Bemis | 1991 |
| Guilty by Suspicion | Larry Nolan | 1991 |
| In Broad Daylight | Jack Wilson | 1991 |
| A Little Piece of Sunshine | Ernie Favaro | 1990 |
| Law & Order | Roy Payne | 1990 |
| Lifestories | Mr. Hawkins | 1990 |
| Lonesome Dove | July Johnson | 1989 |
| American Experience | Walt Whitman / Self - Narrator | 1988 |
| Matewan | Joe Kenehan | 1987 |
| The Equalizer | Michael | 1985 |
| Miami Vice | Jimmy Yagovitch | 1984 |
| Nature | Narrator | 1982 |
| American Playhouse | Louis Halladay | 1982 |
| Working in the Theatre | Self | 1976 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Intelligent Lives | 2018 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 2003 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Won |
| 2003 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Won |
| 2003 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |
