Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper
John Cooper, Jr., known as Jackie Cooper, was an American actor, television director, producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to make the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. At age nine, he was also the youngest performer to have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role—an honor that he received for the film Skippy. For nearly 50 years, Cooper...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 September 1922
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Keep 'em clear of things like leaves and tree branches and stuff. They run hot.
So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
But I want to do good work, after this series.
I'm very pleased with where we are right now. At the beginning of the season our goal was to make the playoffs and here we are.
I need a steady job like running in this new series, because we own the negative to every show that goes on the air, my partner and I.
From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
I got schooled over at NBC on a soap opera, and I had a Sunday-afternoon show, an hour show sponsored by the Ford Foundation, a documentary, half live with film integration. I directed that.
But the working I would always want to do.
We definitely would have to look for other funding.
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
You've just got to be careful with them,
Our defense is playing really well. They've really gelled. We played hard and didn't give up so I was pleased. To hang with (Granite Hills) gives us confidence.
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.