Melville Cooper

George Melville Cooper (15 October 1896 – 13 March 1973), best known as Melville Cooper, was a British stage, film and television actor. Among his roles are the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, and Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, with Greer Garson. His stage debut came in Stratford-Upon-Avon at the age of eighteen. In 1934, he moved to the United States, where he was usually cast as ineffectual snobs or crooks. As his film career wound down in the 1950s, he turned to television and back to the stage. He was an early panelist on the American game show I've Got A Secret. Cooper died in 1973 and was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melville Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Birmingham, England, UK, 1896-10-14

Died: 1973-03-31

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1930	All Riot on the Western Front		0
2	1931	Black Coffee	Insp. Japp	60
3	1931	The Calendar	Mr. Wayne	0
4	1932	Two White Arms	Mack	0
5	1933	To Brighton with Gladys	Slingby	0
6	1933	Leave It to Me	Honorable Freddie	0
7	1934	The Private Life of Don Juan	Leporello	62
8	1934	The Scarlet Pimpernel	Romney	69
9	1935	The Bishop Misbehaves	Collins	40
10	1935	Rendezvous	Doorman (uncredited)	48
11	1936	The Gorgeous Hussy	Cuthbert	52
12	1937	The Last of Mrs. Cheyney	William	60
13	1937	Thin Ice	Krantz	67
14	1937	The Great Garrick	M. W. Picard	59
15	1937	Tovarich	Charles Dupont	62
16	1938	Women Are Like That	Mainwaring	57
17	1938	The Adventures of Robin Hood	High Sheriff of Nottingham	75
18	1938	Gold Diggers in Paris	Pierre aka Fernand LeBrec	55
19	1938	Four's a Crowd	Bingham, Dillingwell's Butler	51
20	1938	Garden of the Moon	Maurice	58
21	1938	Hard to Get	John Case	60
22	1938	Comet Over Broadway	Emerson	50
23	1938	Dramatic School	Boulin	62
24	1938	The Dawn Patrol	Sgt. Watkins	68
25	1939	I'm from Missouri	Hearne	0
26	1939	Blind Alley	George Curtis	57
27	1939	The Sun Never Sets	Cosey	48
28	1939	Two Bright Boys	Hilary Harrington	0
29	1940	Rebecca	Coroner	79
30	1940	Too Many Husbands	Peter	63
31	1940	Escape to Glory	Ship's Mate Penney	60
32	1940	Pride and Prejudice	Mr. Collins	69
33	1940	Murder Over New York	Herbert 'Snuffy' Fenton	61
34	1941	The Lady Eve	Gerald	72
35	1941	Scotland Yard	Dr. Crownfield	0
36	1941	The Flame of New Orleans	Brother-in-Law	60
37	1941	You Belong to Me	Moody	58
38	1942	This Above All	Wilbur	66
39	1942	The Affairs of Martha	Dr. Clarence Sommerfield	58
40	1942	Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6		60
41	1942	Life Begins at Eight-Thirty	Barty	65
42	1942	Random Harvest	George	73
43	1943	Hit Parade of 1943	Bradley Cole	48
44	1943	Immortal Sergeant	Pilcher	56
45	1943	Holy Matrimony	Dr. Caswell	67
46	1943	My Kingdom for a Cook	Angus Sheffield	0
47	1946	Heartbeat	Roland Latour	49
48	1946	The Imperfect Lady	Lord Montglyn	0
49	1947	13 Rue Madeleine	Pappy Simpson	59
50	1948	Enchantment	Jeweler	64
51	1949	The Adventure of the Speckled Band	Dr. John H. Watson	0
52	1949	Love Happy	Lefty Throckmorton	57
53	1949	The Red Danube	Private David Moonlight	63
54	1949	And Baby Makes Three	Gibson	49
55	1950	Father of the Bride	Mr. Tringle	70
56	1950	The Underworld Story	Major Redford	61
57	1950	The Petty Girl	Beardsley (Petty's butler, aka Uncle Ben)	41
58	1950	Let's Dance	Charles Wagstaffe	55
59	1953	The Fabulous Oliver Chantry	Martin	0
60	1954	It Should Happen to You	Guest Panelist	69
61	1954	The General's Boots	Mr. Burnham	0
62	1955	Moonfleet	Felix Ratsey	64
63	1955	The King's Thief	Henry Wynch	62
64	1956	Diane	1st Court Physician	57
65	1956	Around the World in Eighty Days	Mr. Talley	66
66	1956	Bundle of Joy	Adams, the Butler	64
67	1957	The Story of Mankind	Major Domo	46
68	1958	From the Earth to the Moon	Bancroft	52

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Nilghai	47
2	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents		52
3	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Watts	60
4	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Flaky	60
5	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Mr. Burnham	70
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		70
7	1952	I've Got a Secret		77
8	1954	Climax!		30
9	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Mullet	78
10	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Mullet / Pat Lummock	78
11	1956	West Point		50
12	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Binky	58