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Tommy Cooper
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Tommy Cooper
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1921-03-19,Caerphilly, South Wales
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

The Best of Tommy Cooper

5.5

The Best of Tommy Cooper
2004-05-17

Tommy Cooper - Just Like That

0

Tommy Cooper - Just Like That

6.2

The Plank
1967-05-18

8.2

It's Your Move
1982-10-18

Parkinson at 50

10

Parkinson at 50
2021-08-28

And the Same to You

5.6

And the Same to You
1960-02-01

Tommy Cooper: In His Own Words

7

Tommy Cooper: In His Own Words
2018-12-25

The Cool Mikado

0

The Cool Mikado
1963-01-07

Tommy Cooper: Master Of Comedy

0

Tommy Cooper: Master Of Comedy
1997-03-12

Tommy Cooper - The Very Best Of

5

Tommy Cooper - The Very Best Of
2006-09-04

Tommy Cooper - The Missing Pieces

0

Tommy Cooper - The Missing Pieces
2006-09-04

An Audience with Joan Rivers

7

An Audience with Joan Rivers
1984-03-17

Just Like That!

0

Just Like That!
1989-01-01

Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch

0

Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
1993-01-01

Tommy Cooper - Tribute To A Comic Genius

7

Tommy Cooper - Tribute To A Comic Genius
2000-10-09

Tommy Cooper - A Feztival Of Fun With Tommy Cooper

0

Tommy Cooper - A Feztival Of Fun With Tommy Cooper
2001-09-16

Tommy Cooper at the BBC

0

Tommy Cooper at the BBC

A Tribute to Tommy Cooper

0

A Tribute to Tommy Cooper
1986-09-16

Tommy Cooper: The Lost Tapes

0

Tommy Cooper: The Lost Tapes
2024-12-30

Cooper (or Life With Tommy)

0

Cooper (or Life With Tommy)
1957-03-25

Cooper - Just Like That

5

Cooper - Just Like That
1978-09-11

Cooper's Capers

0

Cooper's Capers
1958-10-31

Cooper's Half Hour

0

Cooper's Half Hour
1980-09-02

It's Tommy Cooper

0

It's Tommy Cooper
1970-02-07

The Tommy Cooper Hour

6

The Tommy Cooper Hour
1973-10-31

Life With Cooper

0

Life With Cooper
1966-12-31

0

Cooperama
1966-06-18

An Audience with...

5.3

An Audience with...
1978-01-08

The Bruce Forsyth Show

0

The Bruce Forsyth Show
1959-03-29

The Tommy Cooper Hour

6

The Tommy Cooper Hour
1973-10-31

5

Cooper
1975-10-15