Drama
Cooper made many appearances in roles other than westerns. In 1961, he appeared as Dauger in the American Civil War episode, Still Valley, of CBS's The Twilight Zone created by Rod Serling. In 1962, he guest starred as Mark Perry in "The Exclusive Story" on Robert Young's CBS comedy/drama series Window on Main Street. In 1965, Cooper was cast as Sam Grayson in the episode "Won't It Ever Be Morning?" of NBC's Kraft Suspense Theatre. He guest starred in five episodes of CBS' s legal drama Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr: as Frank Wells in "The Case of the Impatient Partner", as Davis Crane in "The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox" (1962), as James Grove in "The Case of the Polka-dot Pony" (1962), as Jasper in "The Case of the Mischievous Doll" (1965), and as Lowell Rupert in "The Case of the Baffling Bug" (also 1965).
On September 16, 1966, he appeared, along with Larry Ward, James T. Callahan, and Warren Stevens, in the ABC science fiction series The Time Tunnel in the role of Nazarro, an astronaut, in the episode "One Way To The Moon." In 1969, he portrayed "Pete" in the episode "The Playground" of Mike Connors's CBS detective series Mannix. The next year, he appeared again as Pete in the Mannix episode "To Cage a Seagull." He portrayed Officer Brinkman in the episode "Log 95: Purse Snatcher" of Jack Webb's NBC police drama Adam-12, starring Martin Milner and Kent McCord. He guest starred on Robert Young's ABC medical drama, Marcus Welby, M.D.
In 1974, Cooper appeared as Ben Steward in the episode "Cheers" of David Hartman's NBC drama Lucas Tanner. In 1975, he appeared as Hank in the two-parter "The Sky's the Limit" on NBC's Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. In 1979, he appeared as Waverly in NBC's B. J. and the Bear starring Greg Evigan. He continued in the role of Waverly in 1979–1980, when NBC revamped the series as The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, with Claude Akins in the title role. Cooper appeared in episodes "Perkins Bombs Out," "Treasure of Nature Beach," "Police Escort," "The Boom Boom Lady," and "Dean Martin and the Moonshiners."
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Famous quotes containing the word drama:
“It’s hard enough to write a good drama, it’s much harder to write a good comedy, and it’s hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.”
—Jack Lemmon (b. 1925)
“Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)