{"id":9360,"date":"2011-05-06T00:42:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T00:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/05\/06\/superman-star-jackie-cooper-dies-aged-88\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T00:42:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T00:42:13","slug":"superman-star-jackie-cooper-dies-aged-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/05\/06\/superman-star-jackie-cooper-dies-aged-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman star Jackie Cooper dies aged 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#b4acac; height:480px; width:302px; float:right; margin:5px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.nagalandpost.com\/newsimages\/PhotosCollection\/CBBSKQPXNKZOEAFRZSJY.jpg\" style=\" border: 1px solid #000\"\/><br \/>\nCooper as Daily Planet editor Perry White in the hit 1979 film Superman.\n<\/div>\n<p>Veteran Hollywood actor Jackie Cooper has died, aged 88. A former child star, Cooper was best known for playing Daily Planet editor Perry White, alongside Christopher Reeve as Superman in the hit films. Cooper died from an undisclosed illness on Tuesday at a Los Angeles hospital, his agent Ronnie Leif said.<br \/>\nCooper first appeared in films as an extra with his grandmother, who would bring him along in hopes of aiding her own attempts to get extra work. But he was soon appearing in starring roles. He began an on-screen partnership with actor Wallace Beery in such films as The Champ (1931), The Bowery (1933), The Choices of Andy Purcell (1933), Treasure Island (1934), and O\u2019Shaughnessy\u2019s Boy (1935).<br \/>\nAfter serving in the Second World War, Cooper struggled to make the transition to actor and appeared in a handful of TV roles.<br \/>\nHe then spent time in the business side of television.<br \/>\nFrom 1964 to 1969, Cooper was vice president of program development at Columbia Pictures Screen Gems TV division.<br \/>\nHe was responsible for packaging series, such as Bewitched, and other projects and selling them to the networks.<br \/>\nAfter successfully making the often difficult transition to become an adult star, Cooper then became a director.<br \/>\nHe earn Emmys for his roles behind the camera at MASH and The White Shadow.<br \/>\nCooper found renewed fame in the 1970s and 1980s as Daily Planet editor Perry White in the Superman films.<br \/>\nHe was married three times, to June Horne (1944\u20131949), Hildy Parks (1950\u20131951); and to Barbara Kraus from 1954 until her death in 2009.<br \/>\nHe had a son with June and three children with Barbara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper as Daily Planet editor Perry White in the hit 1979 film Superman. Veteran Hollywood actor Jackie Cooper has died, aged 88. A former child star, Cooper was best known for playing Daily Planet editor Perry White, alongside Christopher Reeve as Superman in the hit films. Cooper died from an undisclosed illness on Tuesday at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}