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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.

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Filmography

Boston Strangler

2023
as Jack Maclaine

Irresistible

2020
as Jack Hastings

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

2019
as Jerry Vogel

Little Women

2019
as Mr. Laurence

Them That Work

2019
as Chris Cooper

Homecoming (2018)

2018
as Leonard Geist

Cars 3

2017
as Smokey Yunick (voice)

11.22.63

2016
as Al Templeton

Demolition

2016
as Phil Eastwood

Coming Through the Rye

2016
as J.D. Salinger

Live by Night

2016
as Chief Irving Figgis

Fastball

2016
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

2014
as Norman Osborn

August: Osage County

2013
as Charles Aiken

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

2013
as Narrator (voice)

Agriculture

2012
as Self - Narrator

The Company You Keep

2012
as Daniel Sloan

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

2012
as Gary (voice)

Certain Proof: A Question of Worth

2011
as Chris Cooper

The Muppets

2011
as Tex Richman

The Company Men

2010
as Phil Woodward

The Tempest

2010
as Antonio

Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

2010
as Lt. Col. Kazinski

Amigo

2010
as Col. Hardacre

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

2010
as Chris Cooper

The Town

2010
as Stephen MacRay

Remember Me

2010
as Neil Craig

Where the Wild Things Are

2009
as Douglas (voice)

Ghost Closet '07

2009
as Tea Party Ghost

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

2009
as Self - Narrator

New York, I Love You

2008
as Alex (segment "Yvan Attal")

Married Life

2007
as Harry Allen

The Kingdom

2007
as Grant Sykes

Breach

2007
as Robert Hanssen

Primo Levi's Journey

2007
as Narrator

Capote

2005
as Alvin Dewey

Jarhead

2005
as Lt. Col. Kazinski

Syriana

2005
as Jimmy Pope

Silver City

2004
as Dickie Pilager

The Bourne Supremacy

2004
as Alexander Conklin

My House in Umbria

2003
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith

Seabiscuit

2003
as Tom Smith

The Bourne Identity

2002
as Alexander Conklin

Adaptation.

2002
as John Laroche

Interstate 60

2002
as Bob Cody

Me, Myself & Irene

2000
as Lieutenant Gerke

The Patriot

2000
as Col. Harry Burwell

American Beauty: Look Closer...

2000
as Chris Cooper

American Beauty

1999
as Colonel Frank Fitts

October Sky

1999
as John Hickam

The Horse Whisperer

1998
as Frank Booker

Great Expectations

1998
as Uncle Joe

Breast Men

1997
as Dr. William Larson

A Time to Kill

1996
as Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney

The Deliverance of Elaine

1996
as Charile Skyler

Lone Star

1996
as Sam Deeds

Boys

1996
as Mr. John Baker

Money Train

1995
as Torch

Pharaoh's Army

1995
as Captain John Hull Abston

One More Mountain

1994
as James Reed

Return to Lonesome Dove

1993

This Boy’s Life

1993
as Roy

Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life

1992
as Anthony Blessing

Bed of Lies

1992
as Price Daniel, Jr.

In Broad Daylight

1991
as Jack Wilson

City of Hope

1991
as Riggs

Guilty by Suspicion

1991
as Larry Nolan

Thousand Pieces of Gold

1990
as Charlie Bemis

To the Moon, Alice

1990
as Frank Wiliker

A Little Piece of Sunshine

1990
as Ernie Favaro

Lonesome Dove

1989
as July Johnson

Matewan

1987
as Joe Kenehan

Producer

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

Guest Star

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