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Chris Cooper

Christopher Walton Cooper is well known for his roles in films such 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 (1989), which became one of the most successful Westerns in history.

English
Filmography

11.22.63

2016
as Al Templeton

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

2019
as Jerry Vogel

A Little Piece of Sunshine

1990
as Ernie Favaro

A Time to Kill

1996
as Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney

Adaptation.

2002
as John Laroche

Agriculture

2012
as Self - Narrator

American Beauty

1999
as Colonel Frank Fitts

American Beauty: Look Closer...

2000
as Chris Cooper

Amigo

2010
as Col. Hardacre

August: Osage County

2013
as Charles Aiken

Bed of Lies

1992
as Price Daniel, Jr.

Boston Strangler

2023
as Jack Maclaine

Boys

1996
as Mr. John Baker

Breach

2007
as Robert Hanssen

Breast Men

1997
as Dr. William Larson

Capote

2005
as Alvin Dewey

Cars 3

2017
as Smokey Yunick (voice)

Certain Proof: A Question of Worth

2011
as Chris Cooper

City of Hope

1991
as Riggs

Coming Through the Rye

2016
as J.D. Salinger

Demolition

2016
as Phil Eastwood

Fastball

2016
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)

For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots

2010
as Chris Cooper

Ghost Closet '07

2009
as Tea Party Ghost

Great Expectations

1998
as Uncle Joe

Guilty by Suspicion

1991
as Larry Nolan

Homecoming (2018)

2018
as Leonard Geist

In Broad Daylight

1991
as Jack Wilson

Interstate 60

2002
as Bob Cody

Irresistible

2020
as Jack Hastings

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

2010
as Lt. Col. Kazinski

Jarhead

2005
as Lt. Col. Kazinski

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013
as Narrator (voice)

Little Women

2019
as Mr. Laurence

Live by Night

2016
as Chief Irving Figgis

Lone Star

1996
as Sam Deeds

Lonesome Dove

1989
as July Johnson

Married Life

2007
as Harry Allen

Matewan

1987
as Joe Kenehan

Me, Myself & Irene

2000
as Lieutenant Gerke

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

2012
as Gary (voice)

Money Train

1995
as Torch

My House in Umbria

2003
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith

Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life

1992
as Anthony Blessing

New York, I Love You

2008
as Alex (segment "Yvan Attal")

October Sky

1999
as John Hickam

One More Mountain

1994
as James Reed

Pharaoh's Army

1995
as Captain John Hull Abston

Primo Levi's Journey

2007
as Narrator

Remember Me

2010
as Neil Craig

Return to Lonesome Dove

1993

Seabiscuit

2003
as Tom Smith

Silver City

2004
as Dickie Pilager

Syriana

2005
as Jimmy Pope

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

2014
as Norman Osborn

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

2009
as Self - Narrator

The Bourne Identity

2002
as Alexander Conklin

The Bourne Supremacy

2004
as Alexander Conklin

The Company Men

2010
as Phil Woodward

The Company You Keep

2012
as Daniel Sloan

The Deliverance of Elaine

1996
as Charile Skyler

The Horse Whisperer

1998
as Frank Booker

The Kingdom

2007
as Grant Sykes

The Muppets

2011
as Tex Richman

The Patriot

2000
as Col. Harry Burwell

The Tempest

2010
as Antonio

The Town

2010
as Stephen MacRay

Them That Work

2019
as Chris Cooper

This Boy’s Life

1993
as Roy

Thousand Pieces of Gold

1990
as Charlie Bemis

To the Moon, Alice

1990
as Frank Wiliker

Where the Wild Things Are

2009
as Douglas (voice)

Producer

Movie Intelligent Lives 2018
Movie Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders 2008

Guest Star

Episode Law & Order
Blood Libel 		1996
Episode Attack of the Show
Chris Cooper 		2012
Episode Working in the Theatre
LIVE: 'A Doll's House, Part 2' 		2017
Episode Miami Vice
Mirror Image (2) 		1988
Episode American Experience
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 		2009
Episode Return to Lonesome Dove
The Forge 		1993
Episode Nature
The Good, the Bad and the Grizzly 		2004
Episode Return to Lonesome Dove
The Legacy 		1993
Episode Return to Lonesome Dove
The Passing 		1993
Episode The Equalizer
The Rehearsal 		1987
Episode Return to Lonesome Dove
The Vision 		1993
Episode American Experience
Walt Whitman 		2008