Chris Cooper

ActorProducerDirector Jul 9 (age 74) Kansas City, Missouri, USA 1953–2025 (72 year career)

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Biography

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 ac…

Known For

Film

American Beauty

Colonel Fitts

Film

Little Women

Mr. Laurence

Film

The Bourne Identity

Alexander Conklin

Film

The Bourne Supremacy

Alexander Conklin (uncredited)

Film

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Norman Osborn (uncredited)

Film

The Town

Stephen MacRay

Film

The Patriot

Col. Harry Burwell

Film

Cars 3

Smokey (voice)

Filmography

Acting (92)

Movies (82)

The History of Sound

2025

as Older Lionel

6.3

Everything's Going to Be Great

as Walter

Boston Strangler

as Jack Maclaine

With/In Volume 2

With/In Volume 2

as (segment "Nuts")

Irresistible

as Jack Hastings

Little Women

as Mr. Laurence

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

as Jerry Vogel

Henrietta Bulkowski

as Danny Wilcox

Them That Work

as Self

It Takes a Lunatic

2019

as Self

5.3

Intelligent Lives

2018

as Self

Cars 3

as Smokey (voice)

Demolition

as Phil Eastwood

Live by Night

as Chief Irving Figgis

6.3

Fastball

2016

as Clifford Blankenship (voice)

7.1

Coming Through the Rye

2016

as J.D. Salinger

6.2

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

2014

as Norman Osborn (uncredited)

6.5

August: Osage County

2013

as Charlie Aiken

6.9

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.6

The Company You Keep

2012

as Daniel Sloan

6.2

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

as Gary (voice)

The Muppets

as Tex Richman

Amigo

as Col. Hardacre

The Town

as Stephen MacRay

Remember Me

as Neil Craig

The Tempest

as Antonio

The Company Men

as Phil Woodward

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

2010

as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)

3.8

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

2009

as Himself (Narrator)

4.5

Where the Wild Things Are

2009

as Douglas (voice)

6.5

Extreme Movie

2008

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)

5.9

Making Capote: Concept to Script

as Self

Jarhead

as Lt. Col. Kazinski

Syriana

as Jimmy Pope

Capote

as Alvin Dewey

The Bourne Supremacy

as Alexander Conklin (uncredited)

7.3

Silver City

2004

as Dickie Pilager

6.1

The Making of 'Seabiscuit'

2004

as Self

Seabiscuit

2003

as Tom Smith

7.1

'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend

2003

as Self

My House in Umbria

2003

as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith

6.0

Winners' Circle: The Heroes Behind the Legend

2003

as Self

The Bourne Identity

as Alexander Conklin

Adaptation.

as John Laroche

Interstate 60

as Bob Cody

The Patriot

as Col. Harry Burwell

7.2

Me, Myself & Irene

2000

as Lieutenant Gerke

6.6

American Beauty: Look Closer...

as Self

American Beauty

as Colonel Fitts

The 24 Hour Woman

as Ron Hacksby

October Sky

as John Hickam

Great Expectations

as Joe

The Horse Whisperer

as Frank Booker

Alone

as Gus Jr.

Breast Men

as Dr. William Larson

A Time to Kill

as Dwayne Looney

Lone Star

as Sam Deeds

The Deliverance of Elaine

as Charlie Skyler

Boys

as Mr. John Baker

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.

Darrow

as Eugene Debs

Guilty by Suspicion

as Larry Nolan

City of Hope

as Riggs

To the Moon, Alice

as Frank Wiliker

Thousand Pieces of Gold

as Charlie

In Broad Daylight

as Jack Wilson

A Little Piece of Sunshine

as Ernie Favaro

Matewan

as Joe Kenehan

Bad Timing

as Eddie

Light on Broken Glass

as Jay

Television (10)

Homecoming

as Leonard Geist

11.22.63

as Al Templeton

Teen Choice Awards

as Self

Return to Lonesome Dove

1993

as July Johnson

6.9

Law & Order

1990

as Defense Attorney Roy Payne

Lonesome Dove

as July Johnson

American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

The Equalizer

as Michael

Miami Vice

as Jimmy Yagovitch

The Oscars

as Self

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

Unscripted Lives

2025

Executive Producer

With/In Volume 2

Director

With/In Volume 2

Director

Intelligent Lives

Executive Producer