Tommy Cooper

Born in Caerphilly, South Wales, at 19 Llwyn Onn Street, Trecenydd, Cooper was delivered by the woman who owned the house in which the family was lodging. His parents were Welsh-born army recruiting sergeant father Thomas H. (Tom) Cooper, and his English-born wife Gertrude (née Gertrude C. Wright) from Crediton, Devon. In light of the heavily polluted air and the offer of a job for his father, the family moved to Exeter, Devon, when Cooper was three and gained the West Country accent that was part of his act. The family lived in the back of Haven Banks, where Cooper attended Mount Radford School for Boys, and helped his parents run their ice cream van, which attended fairs on the weekend. At the age of eight an aunt bought Cooper a magic set and he spent hours perfecting the tricks. Magic ran in his family—his brother David (born 1930) opened a magic shop in the 1960s in Slough High Street (then Buckinghamshire now Berkshire) called D. & Z. Cooper's Magic Shop. On 15 April 1984, Cooper collapsed and soon after died from a heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act on the London Weekend Television variety show Live From Her Majesty's, transmitted live from Her Majesty's Theatre. His stage persona required that his act intentionally went wrong for comic purposes, leading to some initial uncertainty about whether this collapse was real.

Known For: Acting

Born: Caerphilly, South Wales, 1921-03-19

Died: 1984-04-15

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2004	The Best of Tommy Cooper	Self	55
2		Tommy Cooper - Just Like That		0
3	1960	And the Same to You	Horace Hawkins	56
4	1963	The Cool Mikado	Pooh-Bah, Private Detective	0
5	1967	The Plank	Larger Workman	62
6	1982	It's Your Move	Big Removal Man	82
7	1984	An Audience with Joan Rivers		70
8	1986	A Tribute to Tommy Cooper	Self	0
9	1989	Just Like That!	Self (archival footage)	0
10	1993	Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch		0
11	1997	Tommy Cooper: Master Of Comedy		0
12	2000	Tommy Cooper - Tribute To A Comic Genius		70
13	2001	Tommy Cooper - A Feztival Of Fun With Tommy Cooper	Himself	0
14	2006	Tommy Cooper - The Very Best Of	himself	50
15	2006	Tommy Cooper - The Missing Pieces	himself	0
16	2018	Tommy Cooper: In His Own Words		70
17	2021	Parkinson at 50	Self (archive footage)	100
18		Tommy Cooper at the BBC	Self (archive footage)	0
19	2024	Tommy Cooper: The Lost Tapes	Himself	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1957	Cooper (or Life With Tommy)		0
2	1958	Cooper's Capers		0
3	1959	The Bruce Forsyth Show		0
4	1966	Cooperama		0
5	1966	Life With Cooper		0
6	1970	It's Tommy Cooper		0
7	1973	The Tommy Cooper Hour	Self	60
8	1975	Cooper	Self	50
9	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
10	1978	Cooper - Just Like That		50
11	1980	Cooper's Half Hour		0

Tommy Cooper

Film

Television