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Jackie Cooper
Catalogued films 84Director 11Actor 73
John Cooper Jr. (September 15, 1922 – May 3, 2011) was an American actor, television director, producer, and executive, known universally as Jackie Cooper. He was a child actor who made the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Oscar nomination. Aged nine, he remains the youngest performer ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, an honor that he received for the film Skippy (1931). For nearly 50 years, Cooper remained the youngest Oscar nominee in any category.
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Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Judy Garland: By Myself
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood
Sports on the Silver Screen
Inside the Dream Factory
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie- HOHollywood Chronicles
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
Surrender
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
The Making of 'Superman III'- NONo Earthly Reason
Superman III
Hollywood’s Children
Superman II
Superman
Hooray for Hollywood
Journey into Fear
The Invisible Man
The Day the Earth Moved
Chosen Survivors
Of Men and Women
The Astronaut
The Love Machine
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Shadow on the Land
Calhoun
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Everything's Ducky
French Leave
Kilroy Was Here
Stork Bites Man
Where Are Your Children?
The Navy Comes Through
Men of Texas
Glamour Boy
Her First Beau
Ziegfeld Girl
Life with Henry
Gallant Sons
Rodeo Dough
The Return of Frank James
Seventeen
The Big Guy
What a Life
Two Bright Boys
Streets of New York
The Spirit of Culver
Scouts to the Rescue
Newsboys' Home
Gangster's Boy
Boy of the Streets
White Banners
That Certain Age
The Devil Is a Sissy
Tough Guy
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Dinky
Peck's Bad Boy
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Treasure Island
The Bowery
Lone Cowboy
Broadway to Hollywood
Divorce In The Family
When a Feller Needs a Friend
Sooky
Young Donovan's Kid
Skippy
The Champ
Bouncing Babies
Boxing Gloves