Jackie CooperFilmography

The Toxic Avenger, Part II

Actors: Ron Fazio, John Altamura, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Rikiya Yasuoka

Synopsis: Ron Fazio returns as The Toxic Avenger, "the first hideously deformed monster hero of superhuman size and strength ever to come from New Jersey," in Troma's mercenary sequel to its hit film The Toxic Avenger. Since Toxie cleaned up Tromaville, New Jersey in the first film, he now has no one to Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Riding into the Sunset

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this episode, viewers will take a long look at that most American of film genres Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: In the Beginning

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This episode looks at the very beginnings of Hollywood's involvement with motion Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: The Great Detectives

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this episode, viewers review the accomplishments of some of the silver screen's Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Censorship - The Unseen Cinema

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This episode examines the history of censorship in Hollywood. Many outside groups have Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Wizards of the F/X

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This episode of the series takes a retrospective look at the special effects that have Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: The Silent Witness

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This particular episode examines the newsreels. Before the era of television, the Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Scandals

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this episode, some of Hollywood's greatest scandals are given close attention. Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: The Great Clowns

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this episode viewers review the accomplishments of some of the silver screen's Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Pen & Ink Movies

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This particular tape examines the history of animated movies in the years before Disney Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: The Depression Years

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This episode examines the history of the cinema during one of the darkest episodes of Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Hollywood's Children

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. On this episode, the careers, troubles, and triumphs of some of Hollywood's child Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: The Nightmare Factory

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this episode, viewers take a look at the horror film. Interviews with some of its Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: The Search for God, Grails & Profits

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This selection from the series takes a look at the close relationship between the Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Poverty Row

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This episode takes a close look at the B-movies, low-budget films made outside the Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: How Movies are Made

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This particular tape offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the craft of moviemaking. Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Women with Clout

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this episode, viewers are introduced to some of Hollywood's most powerful women Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Stereotypes and Minorities

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This episode examines the experience of black actors in Hollywood, considering the Read More

Hollywood Chronicles [TV Series]

Synopsis: Hollywood Chronicles was first seen in the US in 1989 as a weekly series on the Discovery Channel cable service. Jackie Cooper hosts this authoritative but informal journey through 90 years of Hollywood history. Though most of the clips shown are from the usual "public domain" sources, they are Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Familiar Faces, Unknown Names

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This episode of the series features a close look at character actors, those who so Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: The Studio System Takes Over

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this tape, viewers examine a critical moment in movie history, the founding of the Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Coming Attractions & Publicity Stunts

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this particular episode viewers look at the way Hollywood promotes its product. The Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: The New Rebels

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. This episode of the series looks at some of Hollywood's most independent directors, men Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Sex in the Movies

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this particular episode, viewers examine how Hollywood has portrayed sex on films. Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: The American Hero

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this episode, viewers take a look at the sorts of characters offered as heroes by Read More

Hollywood Chronicles: Mysteries and Secrets

Synopsis: Hosted by Jackie Cooper, each episode of Hollywood Chronicles takes a lighthearted look at an aspect of American cinema. From the famous to the obscure, from scandal to triumph, no significant moment is missed. In this episode, the darker side of Hollywood is examined, including some of its famous Read More

All Shook Up

Crew: Director

Surrender

Actors: Sally Field, Michael Caine, Steve Guttenberg, Peter Boyle, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Veteran television writer-director Jerry Belson concocted this sweet comedy that stars Michael Caine as Sean Stein, a best-selling mystery novelist who's been constantly hurt by women he's fallen for. Sally Field plays Daisy Morgan, an artist who has not yet hit it big. She and Stein are at a Read More

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer

Synopsis: Superman (Christopher Reeve) tries to save the world from nuclear destruction at the hands of Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) in this action film featuring the man of steel. In a speech to the United Nations, Superman declares he will rid the world of all nuclear weapons. Arch-villain Luthor emerges Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Limbo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season Seven of Magnum, P.I comes to spectacular conclusion--one that was originally intended to be the series' final episode. Wounded in a violent shootout, the comatose Magnum (Tom Selleck) hovers between life and death. From his vantage point in "Limbo", Magnum tries to communicate with his Read More

The Ladies

Crew: Director

Magnum, P.I.: Forever in Time

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode bears a striking resemblance to the 1979 theatrical feature Time After Time. While running an errand for Higgins (John Hillerman), Magnum happens to see a woman who is the living image of a Hawaiian princess (Lei Maa Richmond) who died tragically in a fire...way back in 1910. Later Read More

Sledge Hammer!: All Shook Up

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this episode of the detective comedy, Sledge works as an impersonator to discover who is killing Elvis impersonators. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sledge Hammer!: Witless

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sledge Hammer solves more crimes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Stalks the Big Top, Part 1

Synopsis: Season Three of Murder She Wrote begins with the first episode of a two-part story, in which mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) pays a visit to the Carmody Circus, an extremely small-time operation. It seems that Jessica has evidence that one of the circus' employees, a Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Stalks the Big Top, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second half of Murder She Wrote's two-part Season Three opener, Jessica's long-missing brother in law Neil Fletcher (Jackie Cooper), who has been working under an alias with the Carmody Circus, has confessed to the murder of circus manager Hank Sutter. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is convinced Read More

Sledge Hammer!: Under the Gun

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sledge Hammer solves more crimes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Night They Saved Christmas

Crew: Director

Actors: Art Carney, Jaclyn Smith, Paul Williams

Synopsis: Art Carney effectively portrays a weary, wisecracking Santa Claus (not the department store variety, but the real McCoy) in the made-for-TV The Night They Saved Christmas. Right now, Santa has very little to be jolly about: his North Pole toy factory is threatened with demolition by greedy oil Read More

Izzy and Moe

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Honeymooners stars Jackie Gleason and Art Carney re-team for this tea-teetotaling comedy about a pair of down-on-their-luck vaudeville actors who go to work as prohibition agents. The time is the Roaring Twenties, and the advent of the motion picture has made vaudeville old news. When the stage Read More

Go for the Gold

Crew: Director

Glitter

Crew: Director

Superman III

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross

Synopsis: In a major departure from the tone of the preceding two Superman adventure films, this mix of vile deeds and fantasy heroics drops the "S" out of cosmic and goes for comic instead. Right at the starting gate, Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor) and a subsequent slapstick sequence upstage (Christopher Reeves Read More

Hollywood's Children

Actors: Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Directed in 1982 by Gene Feldman, this acclaimed documentary examines the emotional price child actors pay for being Hollywood stars. Narrated by Roddy McDowall, who was himself a child star, this program also looks at how well child stars have made the transition to adulthood. The program Read More

Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: This for Remembrance, the autobiography of popular singer Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002), was the source for this made-for-TV biopic. Played herein by Sondra Locke, the Kentucky-born Clooney begins her career as one-half of a musical act with her sister Betty (Penelope Milford), performing at the Read More

Sex and the Single Parent

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on Jane Adams' book of the same name, the made-for-TV Sex and the Single Parent stars Susan Saint James as Sally and Mike Farrell as George. Newly divorced from their respective spouses, both Sally and George intend to celebrate their independence by throwing sexual caution to the wind. But Read More

Moonlight

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Robert Desiderio stars in this TV movie as a Chinese food delivery man (the food is Chinese, not Desiderio). While on the job, he witnesses a murder. Since the killer was an international terrorist, Desiderio is pressed into duty by the US government. He is forced to moonlight as a spy, taking on Read More

Rascal Dazzle

Synopsis: This video is a highlights compilation taken from the lovable Little Rascals episodes. It's narrated by Jerry Lewis. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Leave 'em Laughing

Crew: Director

Actors: Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney stars in this made-for-TV docudrama as circus clown Jack Thum, who aids his wife (Anne Jackson) in raising dozens of orphans; despite learning he is dying, Jack still struggles to earn money to support his growing brood. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Superman II

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Between giving up his super powers, confronting criminals from outer space, and having problems with his girlfriend, it's a bad time to be the Man of Steel in this sequel to the 1978 blockbuster. When terrorists threaten to destroy Paris with a thermonuclear device as they hold reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder Read More

Rodeo Girl

Crew: Director

Actors: Katharine Ross, Bo Hopkins, Candy Clark

Synopsis: The Rodeo Girl is 26-year-old Sammy Garrett (Katherine Ross). Despite opposition from the good-ole-boy network, Sammy is determined to succeed as a bronco buster. But her plans may be thwarted when Sammy becomes pregnant. Even if she doesn't lose the baby, it's likely that she'll lose the love of Read More

Ticket to Hollywood

Synopsis: This documentary looks at the city of Hollywood. Includes a look at promotional films, newsreels, and interviews with stars like John Wayne, Mae West, and the Marx Brothers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

White Mama

Crew: Director

Actors: Bette Davis, Ernest Harden Jr.

Synopsis: Bette Davis is White Mama in this custom-made TV movie. Ms. Davis plays a poverty-stricken widow who is too proud to go on welfare. Aware that she can receive a steady income if she takes in a foster child, Davis becomes surrogate mother to tough black teenager Ernest Harden Jr. The relationship Read More

Marathon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you. Bob Newhart is a marathon runner in this sprightly made-for-TV movie. A mild, middle-aged suburbanite with the requisite loving wife (Anita Gillette), Newhart is smitten by gorgeous female jogger Leigh Taylor-Young. "Accidentally" arranging to meet the Read More

Rainbow

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Judy Garland's rise to stardom is chronicled in this bio-pic that begins with her vaudeville days and ends with The Wizard of Oz. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perfect Gentlemen

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Sandy Dennis, Lisa Pelikan, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: We're not sure who the gentlemen are in this TV movie adaptation of Nora Ephron's Perfect Gentlemen, but there's no doubt as to the identity of the ladies. The plot revolves around three convict's wives. Sandy Dennis owns a bankrupt deli; Lisa Pelikan is pregnant and broke; and Lauren Bacall (in Read More

Superman: The Movie

Actors: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where Read More

Having Babies 3

Crew: Director

Actors: Jamie Smith Jackson, Michael Lembeck, Rue McClanahan

Synopsis: This third entry in the made-for-TV Having Babies saga was first telecast March 3, 1978. Susan Sullivan heads the cast as Dr. Julie Farr, presiding over three impending births. In true soap-opera fashion, Dr. Farr cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients. Marnie Bridges (Jamie Smith Jackson Read More

The Rockford Files: The House on Willis Avenue, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim Rockford (James Garner) and rookie private eye Richie Brockelman (Dennis Dugan) continue to investigate the suspicious death of their mutual mentor Joe Tooley. When the trail of clues leads to crooked computer-company CEO Garth McGregor (Jackie Cooper) Read More

The Rockford Files: The House on Willis Avenue, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) investigates the mysterious death of his mentor Joe Tooley (Paul Fix) on the Ventura Freeway. Assisting Jim--in a manner of speaking--is greenhorn detective Richie Brockelman (Dennis Dugan), who likewise suspects that Tooley's demise was no Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Sullied Be Thy Name

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While heading an anti-obscenity campaign aimed at notorious porno publisher Carlo Dicassa (John Saxon), a prominent priest is found dead in the bedroom of a prostitute (E.J. Peaker). The police are satisfied by the hooker's explanation that the priest died of a heart attack while she was Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Good Smack in the Mouth

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Melissa Astin (Barbara Babcock), the wife of Quincy's supervisor Dr. Robert Astin (John S. Ragin), stops her car to pick up a runaway boy named Joey (Shane Sinutko) --and shortly afterward is involved in a traffic accident. When Quincy (Jack Klugman) pays a visit to Melissa and Joey in the Read More

Operation Petticoat

Synopsis: Life in the Pink is the syndication title of the pilot film for the TV series Operation Petticoat. Based on the 1959 movie of the same name, the series detailed the adventures of a jerry-built submarine in World War II. In the pilot, the sub's crew rescues five Army nurses from a remote Pacific Read More

Quincy, M.E.: No Deadly Secret

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season Three of Quincy M.E. gets off to a running start when Quincy (Jack Klugman) is interrupted during a nocturnal romantic rendezvous by the sudden arrival of his old friend Carl Hopwood, an investigative reporter. It is obvious that Hopwood has been beaten and mutilated, but before Quincy can Read More

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down

Synopsis: Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback" films of the 1970s. Driven insane by the stupidities of Clouseau (Peter Sellers), ex-inspector Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) transforms into a master criminal. Kidnapping the Read More

The Rockford Files: The Italian Bird Fiasco

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) is hired by antiques dealer Thomas Caine (William Daniels) to bid on a rare sculpted bird at an auction. Unfortunately, our hero "gets the bird" in more ways than one when, after purchasing the statue on Caine's behalf, he is attacked by hooligans and the artifact is broken. At Read More

The Rockford Files: In Hazard

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While Beth (Gretchen Corbett) is stuck in jail on a contempt-of-court charge, Jim agrees to do some leg work on behalf of Beth's client Arnold Bailey (Joseph Campanella), who has been accused of income-tax evasion. Unfortunately for both Jim and Beth, Bailey is connected with the Mob. . .and has Read More

News Jungle

Synopsis: In this drama, a TV news team looks into three stories: the death of a peer, a boxer with heart problems, and a killer who has been kidnapping young women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mobile Two

Synopsis: In this feature-length pilot film for a weekly Jack Webb-produced TV series, Jackie Cooper stars as Peter Campbell, a veteran news reporter whose career has been destroyed by booze. Hoping to redeem himself, Campbell signs on as the senior member of a mobile news team for TV station KONE in an Read More

The Invisible Man

Synopsis: This TV-movie update of the old H.G. Wells fantasy novel stars David McCallum as brilliant scientist Daniel Weston. He's so brilliant that he develops an invisibility serum, which he applies to himself. Two inconveniences: Weston must wear a special mask so that his wife (Kathleen Fee) can see Read More

Skim Money

Synopsis: In this drama, a television reporter begins looking for the arsonist who has been forcing tiny salvage companies out of business by burning down their buildings. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: Aura Lee, Farewell

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The friends and family of young Aura Lee Benton (Melissa Greene) are shocked when the girl dies from a heroin overdose--especially since they know full well that Aura Lee never did drugs. Jim (James Garner) is hired by the dead girl's coworker Sara Butler (a pre-Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner) to Read More

The Rockford Files: Claire

Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) is hired by his former lover Claire Prescott (Linda Evans) to help pry her loose from a loan shark. But as often happens on The Rockford Files, Claire isn't telling Jim the whole truth. As the plot thickens, Claire continues to withhold vital information from the detective Read More

The Rockford Files: Counter Gambit

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Though there's no love lost between Jim Rockford (James Garner) and fellow ex-con Moss Williams (Eddie Fontaine), Jim agrees to help Moss locate his missing girlfriend Maria Heller (Mary Frann). What Williams doesn't tell Jim is that he isn't interested in Maria but in the girl's pearl Read More

The Rockford Files: Say Goodbye to Jennifer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Though at first he turns down the assignment, Jim (James Garner) agrees to help his former war buddy Mitch (Hector Elizondo), now a fashion photographer, to track down one of his models, Jennifer Ryburn (Pamela Hensley). Suspected of murder, Jennifer has been reported killed in a fiery car crash Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: You Sometimes Hurt the One You Hate

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) makes one on-the-air blooper too many, an enraged Lou Grant (Ed Asner) tosses Ted out of the newsroom -- literally. As Ted recovers from his minor injuries, Lou suffers the pangs of guilt and remorse. Hoping to make amends, Lou bends over backward to grant Read More

The Day the Earth Moved

Actors: Cleavon Little

Synopsis: Jackie Cooper and Cleavon Little star as aerial photographers who spot a few threatening cracks in the San Andreas fault. Will anyone listen? No. Do they suffer in the subsequent quake? Yes, but not as expensively as the all-star cast in Earthquake. Still, The Day the Earth Moved doesn't aspire to Read More

Kojak: Last Rites for a Dead Priest

Synopsis: As he often did in his 1970s TV appearances, Jackie Cooper forsakes his "good guy" image in this episode to portray a cold-blooded criminal. In this case, Cooper is cast as jewel thief Frank Mullvaney, who intends to pull off a heist at a jeweler's convention right under the nose of Lt. Kojak Read More

Chosen Survivors

Actors: Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: This speculative horror film details the tribulations endured by a specially-selected test group of 11 people who are informed that they will be the only occupants of a nuclear fallout shelter built half a mile below the Earth's surface. Chosen by project coordinator Peter Macomber (Bradford Dillman Read More

Three Comedies

Synopsis: This comedy is comprised of three vignettes involving a school psychiatrist, a pair of police sergeants, and a beleaguered father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

M*A*S*H: The Sniper

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The 4077th is under siege from a young enemy sniper, who is convinced that General MacArthur is hiding somewhere in the camp. To avoid getting shot full of holes, Radar (Gary Burghoff) and Henry (McLean Stevenson) spend most of the episode trapped in the shower. In the end, it is Hawkeye who Read More

M*A*S*H: For the Good of the Outfit

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An outraged Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Trapper (Wayne Rogers) try to alert the authorities that a peaceful local village was accidentally bombed by American artillery. They turn their evidence over to Major Stoner (Frank Aletter), who promptly destroys it lest the army be cast in an unfavorable Read More

M*A*S*H: Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde

Crew: Director

Synopsis: On the verge of insanity after three solid days in the O.R., the sleep-deprived Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is unable to stop operating even when he's ordered to. Continuing to spin out of control, Hawkeye pens a provocative letter to President Truman, then attempts to negotiate a cease-fire by providing Read More

M*A*S*H: Officers Only

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As a reward for saving the life of the son of Gen. Maynard M. Mitchell (Robert F. Simon), Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Trapper (Wayne Rogers) get three days' R & R in Tokyo, while the 4077th gets a new Officer's Club. Alas, Frank (Larry Linville) spoils the fun by sticking to the letter of the law and Read More

M*A*S*H: The Incubator

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A hung-over Hawkeye (Alan Alda) joins forces with an equally groggy Trapper (Wayne Rogers) to requisition a new incubator for the 4077th. Unfortunately, not even a nearby Major with three incubators at his disposal is of any help to the heroes. Meanwhile, Henry (McLean Stevenson) basks with pride Read More

M*A*S*H: Radar's Report

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Writing up his weekly report, Cpl. Radar O'Reilly (Gary Burghoff) recounts a "typical" series of events at the 4077th. Highlights of the report include a beserk, scalpel-wielding POW (Derick Shimatsu); the latest scheme concocted by Klinger (Jamie Farr) to get out of the army on a Section Eight; Read More

The F.B.I.: Break-In

Synopsis: The multitalented Jackie Cooper is cast against type as Harlan Slade, the cold-blood patriarch of a criminal family. The action gets under way when Slade's clan breaks him out of Federal Prison. Their next step is a "break-in"--of a bank holding millions of dollars. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Read More

M*A*S*H: Hot Lips and Empty Arms

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fed up with practically everything -- the lack of decorum at the 4077th, the irreverence of Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Trapper (Wayne Rogers), and especially her dead-end romance with Frank Burns (Larry Linville) -- Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit) demands a transfer out of the unit. Read More

M*A*S*H: The Chosen People

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A South Korean family refuses to leave the 4077th's compound, insisting that it is their property and that the Army should vacate instead. Meanwhile, a young Korean unwed mother insists that poor Radar (Gary Burghoff) is the baby's daddy. If Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) thought that the Read More

Ironside: The Countdown

Synopsis: Jackie Cooper guest stars as scientist Dr. Norman Chase, who early in the proceedings is waylaid by the minions of a criminal named Caesar (Richard Jaeckel) and forced to put on an explosive belt that cannot be removed . Unless Ironside (Raymond Burr) agrees to release three of Caesar's cohorts Read More

The Astronaut

Synopsis: Astronaut Monte Markham has been dispatched to the heavens on the first US space trip to Mars. When TV coverage is abruptly cut off, the official story reads that there's been a slight malfunction, and that Markham is heading home. Only space official Jackie Cooper and a handful of associates know Read More

M*A*S*H: Dear Dad, Again

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this follow-up to the 1972 episode "Dead Dad," Hawkeye (Alan Alda) writes another letter to his father. This time around, Hawkeye recounts the 4077th's "No-Talent Night," the efforts by Radar (Gary Burghoff) to earn a correspondence-course diploma, and the exploits of a new surgeon (Alex Henteloff Read More

Stand up and Be Counted

Crew: Director

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: This gag-filled movie makes a stab at examining the women's liberation movement but never quite gets there. The effects of the movement are shown through a series of comic and romantic episodes between men and women. The story is loosely tied together as the research of Sheila Hammond (Jacqueline Bisset Read More

M*A*S*H: The Ringbanger

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen guest-stars as Colonel Buzz Maxwell, a man whose record of combat casualties is much too high for the tastes of Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and Trapper (Wayne Rogers). Hoping to coerce Maxwell into retirement, the two doctors conspire with Radar (Gary Burghoff) to convince the Colonel that Read More

M*A*S*H: Showtime

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The action in this episode alternates between "business as usual" at the 4077th and a tacky USO Show headed by second-rate comic Jackie Flash (Joey Forman). Thing of it is, nothing that Jackie says or does is nearly as funny as the average goings-on within the M*A*S*H unit. One of the many plot Read More

The Love Machine

Actors: John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: Based on the novel The Love Machine, by Jacqueline Susann, this movie concerns the machinations, in the boardroom and in the bedroom, of a group of people--from the chairman of the board down--who are involved in network television. Through his own guile and the sponsorship of his mistress (Dyan Cannon Read More

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring

Actors: Sally Field

Synopsis: Sally Field had her first significant dramatic role in this "generation gap" TV movie. After a year's time in the world of hippies and drugs, Field returns home to the parents who'd all but booted her out. Mom and Dad (Eleanor Parker and Jackie Cooper) try their best to understand their wayward Read More

Shadow on the Land

Synopsis: America is no longer the home of the free in this futuristic drama. Now the country is ruled by a powerful, tyrant and his henchmen. The story centers on two brave underground rebels who work to usurp the dictator and restore democracy to the beleaguered land. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Prisoner: The General

Synopsis: The fine line between knowledge and insight becomes a battleground in this episode of the classic British television series The Prisoner. Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) becomes aware of a strange new innovation created by scientists in the Village -- a type of brain implant that allows the subject Read More

The Prisoner: Hammer into the Anvil

Synopsis: Written by Roger Woddis, this episode of The Prisoner guest stars Patrick Cargill (also seen in the previous episode "Free for All") as super sadistic New Number Two. Delighting in tormenting the villagers, Number Two drives at least one of them, Number 73 (Hilary Dwyer), to suicide. Hoping to Read More

The Twilight Zone: Caesar and Me

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Suzanne Cupito, Sarah Selby, Olan Soule, Stafford Repp

Synopsis: This episode stars Jackie Cooper as Jonathan West, a pathetically unsuccessful ventriloquist. Unable to find work in any other profession, Jonathan turns to a life of crime -- with his sinister, cigar-smoking dummy Caesar acting as "mastermind." Featured in the cast as a malevolent youngster is Susanne Cupito Read More

Everything's Ducky

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jackie Cooper, Joanie Sommers, Roland Winters

Synopsis: This fantasy-comedy is directed by Don Taylor whose specialty is horror and action flics, and clearly not talking ducks and children's tales. Beetle McKay (Mickey Rooney) and Admiral John Paul Jones (Buddy Hackett) are two wacky sailors who make friends with a talking duck, a verbose avian that Read More

People's Choice: Season 02

Producers' Showcase: Yellow Jack

Actors: Lorne Greene, Dennis O'Keefe, Dane Clark, E.G. Marshall, Carlos Montalban

People's Choice [TV Series]

Synopsis: People's Choice chronicles the exploits of a young councilman, Socrates "Sock" Miler (Jackie Cooper, and his dog Cleo (who acted as sort of a Greek chorus and made sharp comments directly to the audience), as he learns the ropes of life and politics. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

People's Choice: Season 01

French Leave

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Jackie Coogan, Ralph Sanford, Curt Bois, Renee Godfrey

Synopsis: Monogram's French Leave received an inordinate amount of press coverage because of its teaming of two former child stars. Jackie Cooper and Jackie Coogan play a couple of amorous merchant seamen on the loose in a small French village. Hoping to score with the local mademoiselles, the two Jackies Read More

Kilroy Was Here

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Wanda McKay, Frank Jenks, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: The popular wartime catchphrase "Kilroy Was Here" was affixed to this minor campus comedy. Jackie Cooper plays peripatetic ex-sailor John J. Kilroy, who is assumed to be the Kilroy. Once John finds himself in college on the GI bill, he finds that his fame is also a curse: none of the "right" Read More

Stork Bites Man

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Gus Schilling, Emory Parnell, Stanley Prager

Synopsis: Stork Bites Man was the last of five short-length features from Comet Productions, a company owned by Mary Pickford, her husband Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and former Columbia executive Ralph Cohn. Jackie Cooper plays Ernie, an apartment-house manager whose wife Peg (Gena Roberts) is several months Read More

Where Are Your Children?

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Gale Storm, Patricia Morison, John Litel, Gertrude Michael

Synopsis: This socially conscious drama examines the causes of juvenile delinquency and centers on one girl who joins a gang of punks and ends up involved in a murder. She is jailed. Later her old friend returns from the Navy and convinces the courts that she wasn't really part of the killing. The chastened Read More

Men of Texas

Actors: Robert Stack, Broderick Crawford, Jackie Cooper, Anne Gwynne, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Surprisingly little known, Universal's Men of Texas boasts an impressive cast and a fairly exciting and complex storyline. Set just after the Civil War, the film stars Robert Stack as Chicago war correspondent Barry Conovan, who is sent by his newspaper to Texas to get the low-down on the martial Read More

Syncopation

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, George Bancroft, Ted North

Synopsis: This musical chronicles the history of jazz music and features many of the most popular musical acts from the early 1940s, including Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman. The story centers on a trumpet player who falls for a young woman with an equal passion for music. Unfortunately, the girl is still Read More

The Navy Comes Through

Actors: Pat O'Brien, George Murphy, Jane Wyatt, Jackie Cooper, Carl Esmond, Desi Arnaz

Synopsis: A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net profit: $542,000). Most of the film takes place on the ramshackle old merchant-marine freighter, skippered by Captain McCall (Ray Collins). The captain and his stalwart Read More

Ziegfeld Girl

Actors: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner, Tony Martin

Synopsis: All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in abundance. The story focuses on three showbiz hopefuls-Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner-and the efforts to attain the lofty status of "Ziegfeld Girl." Garland is compelled Read More

Life with Henry

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Leila Ernst, Eddie Bracken, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: The box-office success of Paramount's What a Life (1939), coupled with the popularity of the spinoff Henry Aldrich radio series, inspired the studio to launch an "Aldrich" series of its own. The inagural entry was Life with Henry, with Jackie Cooper repeating his role as befuddled teenager Henry Read More

Her First Beau

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Jane Withers, Edith Fellows, Josephine Hutchinson, William Tracy

Synopsis: In this drama, two childhood sweethearts endure the first pains of adult love. The young lady is beginning to feel frustrated because her beau has been spending too much time building gliders. When his uncle is visited by a cute, and flirtatious older friend, the precocious lass begins dating him. Read More

Seventeen

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker, Norma Nelson

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1916 with Mary Pickford's brother Jack in the lead, Booth Tarkington's irresistable coming-of-age novel Seventeen serves as a tailor-made vehicle for 18-year-old Jackie Cooper. The star is cast as William Slyvanus Baxter, a high school boy who is undergoing the pangs of First Read More

Glamour Boy

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Susanna Foster, Walter Abel, Darryl Hickman, Ann Gillis

Synopsis: Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts Read More

The Return of Frank James

Actors: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, John Carradine, Henry Hull

Synopsis: This Technicolor sequel to 1939's Jesse James does without the services of the earlier film's star Tyrone Power, who after all was shot dead by that "dirty little coward" Bob Ford (John Carradine). Repeating his portrayal of western outlaw Frank James, Henry Fonda is promoted to top billing here. Read More

Gallant Sons

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Leo Gorcey, Bonita Granville, Gene Reynolds, Gail Patrick, Ian Hunter

Synopsis: Though its title suggests a war picture of some sort, MGM's Gallant Sons actually concerns the efforts of a group of kids to solve a murder. Young Johnny Davis (Gene Reynolds) is beside himself when his gambler father (Ian Hunter) is arrested for murder. In truth, Davis' pop is shielding several Read More

What a Life

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, John Howard, Janice Logan, Vaughan Glaser

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, young high school student Henry Aldrich tries to tone down his natural mischievousness and shuck the reputation of being the worst student in school. It isn't easy and his father, who was an excellent student at Princeton, doesn't help. Fortunately, by the story's end, the Read More

Newsboy's Home

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie, Edward Norris, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: The "Little Tough Guys" get involved in a circulation war between a paper with underhanded tactics and a paper being mismanaged by the woman who inherited it. The Tough Guys' leader is partial to the latter, since it took him in when his sheriff father was murdered. He helps draw readers away from Read More

Captain Spanky's Show Boat

Actors: George "Spanky" McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Darla Hood, Tommy Bond

Synopsis: Once again, the Our Gang kids stage an elaborate musical show in Spanky McFarland's backyard. Angered over the fact that Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer has been chosen as the show's singing star, bully Tommy "Butch" Bond sneaks backstage with the intention of sabotaging the production. But Butch is Read More

The Spirit of Culver

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholomew, Tim Holt, Andy Devine, Henry Hull

Synopsis: In this campus drama, an orphan wins a cadet scholarship to the Culver military academy. He is a cocky fellow, and is very proud that his late father was a decorated war hero who died in battle. His arrogance and unwillingness to comply with the academy's strict rules soon gets him into hot water. Read More

Streets of New York

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Martin Spellman, Sidney Miller, Buddy Pepper, Bobby Stone

Synopsis: The cumbersome title refers to the fact that tenement-dwelling teenager Jackie Cooper is studying to become a lawyer. Monogram Pictures decided that the title was too clever for its own good, thus the film was released as Streets of New York. Star Cooper manages a newstand by day, while attending Read More

Two Bright Boys

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholomew, Melville Cooper, Dorothy Peterson, Alan Dinehart

Synopsis: Jackie Cooper and Freddie Bartholomew, both recent graduates of the MGM production factory, are reteamed in Universal's Two Bright Boys. While drilling for oil on his Texas ranch, young Rory O'Donnell (Cooper) must fend off the efforts of all-around villain Hallitt (Alan Dinehart) to claim Rory's Read More

The Big Guy

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Jackie Cooper, Edward S. Brophy, Peggy Moran, Ona Munson

Synopsis: In this melodrama, the acting warden at a correctional facility must make a difficult choice when he comes across some ill-gotten loot after averting a prison break. At first he keeps it for himself, but then one of the recently recaptured inmates gets blamed for the crime. During the attempted Read More

Gangster's Boy

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Lucy Gilman, Robert Warwick, Louise Lorimer, Tommy Wonder

Synopsis: Too old to play the cute MGM urchin any longer, 16-year-old Jackie Cooper signed with Monogram for a group of above-average programmers. Gangster's Boy was the second of this series, all of which followed a predestined pattern of shame and redemption. Young Cooper is a high-school honor student Read More

That Certain Age

Actors: Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Nancy Carroll

Synopsis: In this musical romantic comedy of 1938, Deanna Durbin plays Alice Fullerton, a young woman of a "certain age" who is prone to developing crushes against her best judgment. Her parents have taken in an intriguing house guest, Vincent Bullitt (Melvyn Douglas), a successful international news Read More

White Banners

Actors: Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill

Synopsis: Based on another of Lloyd C. Douglas' "better living through faith" short stories, White Banners stars Claude Rains as a chemistry professor who invents an icebox that requires no ice. The invention is stolen, throwing Rains and his faithful young assistant Jackie Cooper into a deep depression. Rains Read More

Boy of the Streets

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Maureen O'Connor, Kathleen Burke, Robert E. O'Connor

Synopsis: In this urban drama, a teenage street punk learns a valuable lesson about the dangers of crime. Jackie Cooper is the tough gangleader with political aspirations. He tries to get himself involved in the graft and corruption of local city government. He almost dies after he is plugged by a gangster. Read More

Tough Guy

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Joseph Calleia, Rin Tin Tin, Jr., Harvey Stephens, Jean Hersholt

Synopsis: In this drama, a boy's love for his loyal dog, helps him survive in a hard cruel world. The trouble begins with the boy's dog-hating wealthy father. Not wanting to part with his beloved pooch, the boy runs away and gets mixed up with gangsters. After several mishaps, the boy and his dog end up Read More

The Devil Is a Sissy

Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Ian Hunter, Peggy Conklin

Synopsis: The Devil Is a Sissy deserves an historical footnote as the only film to team three of the biggest child stars of the 1930s: Mickey Rooney, Jackie Cooper and Freddie Bartholomew. Bartholomew is a wealthy young English boy attending a New York "magnet" school, whose students are drawn from all Read More

O'Shaughnessey's Boy

Actors: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, George "Spanky" McFarland, Henry Stephenson, Sara Haden

Synopsis: Another of MGM's Wallace Beery-Jackie Cooper assault on the tear ducts, O'Shaugnessy's Boy casts Beery as oafish but lovable circus animal trainer Windy O'Shaughnessy. Believing himself happily married to acrobat Martha (Sara Haden), Windy is shocked to discover that Martha has walked out on him Read More

Dinky

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Henry Armetta

Synopsis: Cast in the title role Dinky is Jackie Cooper, who wasn't all that dinky by 1935. Mary Astor co-stars as Mrs. Daniels, Dinky's mother, who has been framed on a fraud charge and sent to prison. By bundling her son off to military school, Mrs. Daniels is able to keep her shame a secret from Dinky. Read More

Hollywood on Parade

Synopsis: 1932 through 1934 saw the production of "Hollywood on Parade" shorts by Paramount Studios, featuring nearly every big star singing, dancing, or playacting. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Peck's Bad Boy

Actors: Thomas Meighan, Jackie Cooper, Dorothy Peterson, Jackie Searl, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: Based on the barnstorming stage play by George W. Peck, Peck's Bad Boy stars Jackie Cooper in the title role. Cooper's discomfort upon discovering that he was adopted by his dad (Thomas Meighan) is doubled when his obnoxious aunt (Dorothy Peterson) and repulsive cousin (Jackie Searl) move in with Read More

Treasure Island

Actors: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: This fifth film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island boasts an all-star MGM cast, headed by Wallace Beery as Long John Silver and Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins. The screenplay, by John Lee Mahin, John Howard Lawson and Leonard Praskins, remains faithful to the Stevenson original...up Read More

Lone Cowboy

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Lila Lee, John Wray, Addison Richards, Gavin Gordon

Synopsis: Adapted by director Paul Sloan from the novel by Will James, Lone Cowboy is an "outdoors" epic tailored to the talents of young Jackie Cooper. Actually the title character is not played by Cooper but by character actor Addison Richards, cast as a grizzled old rodeo rider named Dobe Jones. Placed Read More

The Bowery

Actors: Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Pert Kelton

Synopsis: In this rough-and-tumble action comedy, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) and Steve Brodie (George Raft) are friendly rivals on New York's Bowery in the 1890s. Connors owns a fancy tavern and looks after a streetwise kid named Swipes McGurk (Jackie Cooper), while Brodie is a daredevil willing to do Read More

Broadway to Hollywood

Actors: Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Russell Hardie, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Broadway to Hollywood is a through-the-years saga about a show business family. Frank Morgan and Alice Brady play vaudeville headliners of the 1880s whose fame is eclipsed by their son (played as a youth by Jackie Cooper, then as an adult by Russell Hardie). Morgan and Brady are reduced to bit Read More

Divorce in the Family

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Maurice Murphy

Synopsis: A young boy from a broken home must choose between his real dad and his step-father in this drama. His real dad is permissive; his new father is quite strict. His real father wants him back, but ultimately, the boy opts to stay with the stepfather because he understands that the discipline is good Read More

Feller Needs a Friend

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Chic Sale, Ralph Graves, Dorothy Peterson, Andy Shuford

Synopsis: Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions for MGM release, Feller Needs a Friend teams child-star Jackie Cooper with rustic comedian Chic Sale. Cooper plays Eddie Randall, a physically challenged boy who is overprotected by his parents. He finds a kindred spirit in his aged Read More

When a Feller Needs a Friend

Synopsis: In this two-hanky drama, a physically challenged boy wants his overprotective parents to relinquish their tight control so he can be like all the other neighborhood kids. Fortunately, his lively uncle is on his side and helps the boy get up the guts to confront his mom and dad. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Skippy

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl, Willard Robertson

Synopsis: Percy Crosby's popular newspaper comic strip Skippy comes to life in this 1931 film. Designed as a vehicle for Our Gang's Jackie Cooper -- then all of nine years old -- Skippy jettisons most of the trenchant cynicism of Crosby's creation (the strip was something of a 1930s Calvin and Hobbes) in Read More

Sooky

Actors: Jackie Searl, Willard Robertson, Enid Bennett, Helen Jerome Eddy, Leigh Allen

Synopsis: Sooky was the sequel to Paramount's smash-hit sentimental comedy Skippy; both films were based on characters created by comic strip artist Percy Crosby. Jackie Cooper is back as Skippy, with Robert Coogan (younger brother of Jackie Coogan) in the title role. Once again, Skippy is the mischievous Read More

The Champ

Actors: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates, Edward S. Brophy

Synopsis: Wallace Beery won an Academy Award for his tour de force performance as a washed-up boxer. The bibulous Beery travels from one tank-town bout to another in the company of his faithful son Jackie Cooper and his stuttering manager Roscoe Ates. Hoping for a comeback in Tijuana, Beery is approached by Read More

Young Donovan's Kid

Actors: Richard Dix, Jackie Cooper, Marion Shilling, Frank Sheridan, Boris Karloff

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a crime lord adopts the little brother of a slain colleague. Later a child-care inspector intervenes, deems the gangster a bad influence, and takes the lad away from him. The gangster is outraged and begins an unequaled crime spree until a local minister's daughter convinces Read More

Love Business

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Farina Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins

Synopsis: The final entry in "Our Gang" 's unofficial "Miss Crabtree trilogy", "Love Business" more or less picks up where "School's Out" left off. Little Jackie Cooper has a schoolboy crush on his lovely teacher Miss Crabtree (June Marlowe), as does Jackie's classmate Norman "Chubby" Chaney. When Miss Read More

Bargain Day

Actors: Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Shirley Jean Rickert, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Farina Hoskins

Synopsis: The "Our Gang" two-reeler "Bargain Day" gets off to a lively start as the kids help their pal Norman "Chubby" Chaney purchase a new hat. Meanwhile, Jackie Cooper's kid brother, played by Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, steals the Gang's baseball equipment, intended to go into business as a door-to-door Read More

Little Daddy

Actors: Farina Hoskins, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Jackie Cooper, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson

Synopsis: Originally released on March 28, 1931, the "Our Gang" comedy "Little Daddy" is no longer available in the "Little Rascals" TV package, due to the perceived offensiveness of its "ethnic" humor. The focus is on talented black youngsters Allen "Farina" Hoskins and Mathew "Stymie" Beard, here cast as Read More

Helping Grandma

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Farina Hoskins, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins

Synopsis: Veteran character actress Margaret Mann makes the first of two memorable Our Gang appearances in Helping Grandma. The owner of a tiny general store, "Grandma" (Mann), loves to have the kids around, even if they pay for their penny candy with expired subway tokens and buttons. Local skinflint Mr. Read More

A Tough Winter

Actors: Stepin Fetchit, Farina Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Jackie Cooper, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins

Synopsis: Originally released on June 21, 1930, the "Our Gang" comedy "A Tough Winter" was designed as a "pilot" film for a proposed series of two-reelers starring legendary black comedian Stepin Fetchit. Beginning with a lengthy sequence in which the Gang helps Stepin read a love letter (which segues into Read More

The First Seven Years

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Mary Ann Jackson, Donald Haines, Farina Hoskins, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins

Synopsis: Hopelessly in love with little Mary Ann Jackson, seven-year-old Jackie Cooper would like to claim her as a "wife," but doesn't know how to go about it. When the "caveman" approach fails, Jackie tries the candy, flowers and clean-suit technique, only to find he has been beaten to the punch by his Read More

When the Wind Blows

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Farina Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Norman "Chubby" Chaney

Synopsis: Officially an "Our Gang" comedy, "When the Wind Blows" is really a vehicle for adult comic Edgar Kennedy, here playing his usual role of a boastful, clumsy and cowardly cop. On a dark and windy night, Officer Kennedy tries to keep the peace in a small neighborhood, only to be frightened at every Read More

Shivering Shakespeare

Actors: Mary Ann Jackson, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Farina Hoskins, Jackie Cooper, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins

Synopsis: The Our Gang kids reluctantly participate in a stage presentation of Quo Vadis, retitled "The Gladiator's Dilemma" by its pretentious director, Mrs. Funston Evergreen Kennedy (Gertrude Sutton). Alas, none of the kids can remember their lines, the props and settings fall apart at the slightest Read More

Teacher's Pet

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Farina Hoskins, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson

Synopsis: An indisputable classic, the "Our Gang" comedy "Teacher's Pet" is introduced by a brace of pretty twin girls (Beverly and Bette Mae Crane), who recite the opening credit titles. The story proper begins with the Gang members facing the first day of school with fear and loathing. Their beloved Read More

Bear Shooters

Actors: Leon Janney, Jackie Cooper, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Farina Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson

Synopsis: Popular child actor (and later radio and TV stalwart) Leon Janney made his one and only "Our Gang" appearance in "Bear Shooters." Ordered by his mother to look after his kid brother Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, nine-year-old Spud (Janney) is worried that he won't be able to join his pals on a hunting Read More

School's Out

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Farina Hoskins, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby Young

Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1930 "Our Gang" comedy "Teacher's Pet," the Gang members eagerly await each school day, so that they can bask in the beauty and charm of their new schoolteacher Miss Crabtree (June Marlowe). Little Jackie Cooper is so smitten by the teacher that he circulates a "perdition" to Read More

Sunny

Actors: Marilyn Miller, Lawrence Gray, Joe Donahue, Mackenzie Ward, O.P. Heggie

Synopsis: Broadway star Marilyn Miller's second starring film was an adaptation of her 1925 stage hit Sunny. Flashing her celebrated dazzling smile at every possible occasion, Miller is cast as a circus bareback rider, in love with wealthy Tom Warren (Lawrence Gray). Naturally, Tom's aristocratic family are Read More

Pups Is Pups

Actors: Farina Hoskins, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Jackie Cooper, Dorothy de Borba, Norman "Chubby" Chaney

Synopsis: The Our Gang kids prepare to enter their scraggily pets in a high-society dog show, where their pal Allen "Farina" Hoskins is working as an usher. Meanwhile, Jackie Cooper tries vainly to prevent his troublesome kid sister (Dorothy "Echo" DeBorba) from jumping into every mud puddle that she sees. Read More

Boxing Gloves

Synopsis: As usual, diminutive Our Gang member Allen "Farina" Hoskins is faced with an adult-sized dilemma. This time, Farina is a self-styled fight promoter, who hopes to strike it rich by staging a "heavyweight" bout between neighborhood fat boys Joe Cobb and Norman "Chubby" Chaney. Unfortunately, for Read More

Fox Movietone Follies of 1929

Actors: John Breeden, Sue Carol, DeWitt Jennings, David Rollins, Lola Lane, Stepin Fetchit, Warren Hymer, Arthur Stone

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a young man from Virginia who is heir to a wealthy estate falls in love with a girl who longs to be a Broadway star. He moves to New York to be with her but discovers that she's a lot more interested in her career than in settling down. Hoping to turn her gaze away from the Read More

Bouncing Babies

Actors: Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Mary Ann Jackson, Farina Hoskins, Joe Cobb, Norman "Chubby" Chaney

Synopsis: Accustomed to being the center of attention in his family, little Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins is upset when the spotlight is stolen by his new baby brother. Envious of the new arrival, Wheezer scheme to take the infant back to the maternity hospital whence he came. But Wheezer's sister Mary Ann Read More

Sunny Side Up

Actors: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, El Brendel, Marjorie White, Frank Richardson

Synopsis: The popular silent romantic team of Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor made a successful all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing debut in Sunny Side Up. The story is old bromide about a poor girl who falls in love with a rich man, then tries to pass herself off as a woman of wealth. This being a 1929 Read More

Moan & Groan, Inc.

Actors: Farina Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Jackie Cooper, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Norman "Chubby" Chaney

Synopsis: The success of this "Our Gang" comedy is due in great part to the performances of two adult comedians, Edgar Kennedy and Max Davidson. Warning the Gang members to stay away from an old, crumbling condemned house, Officer Kennedy suggests they dig for buried treasure. They do --- in the same house Read More

Cord and Dischords / Naughty Nurse

Synopsis: This historical shorts present some lesser known slapstick clowns. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Wolf's Clothing

Actors: Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, John Miljan, Douglas Gerrard

Synopsis: New York subway guard Barry Baline (Monte Blue) is struck down by a speeding car on New Years' Eve. The driver, a mentally unhinged millionaire named Johnson Craigle (John Miljan), exchanges clothing with the unconscious Barry. When he awakens, Barry is assumed to be Craigle, leading to a series Read More

The Carnival Girl

Actors: Gladys Brockwell, Frankie Darro, George Siegmann, Allan Forrest

Synopsis: The "carnival girl" of the title is played by Marion Mack, most fondly remembered as Buster Keaton's bird-brained lady love in The General. A fine comedienne in her own right, Mack plays it straight as a tightrope walker in love with navy lieutenant Allan Forrest. Villainous strong man George Siegmann Read More

The Rag Man

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Max Davidson, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Robert Edeson, William Conklin

Synopsis: Although Jackie Coogan is dressed up (or rather, down) for this comedy in much the same way he was for Charles Chaplin's The Kid, there are two big differences -- he's four years older than when he made the Chaplin film and starting to lose his childish charm. A fire breaks out at an orphanage in Read More

M*A*S*H: Divided We Stand

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The men and women of the 4077th are acting more wacky than ever, but only so they can retain their sanity in the face of the Korean War. General Clayton (Herb Voland), worried that the MASH unit's zaniness may be getting out of hand, assigns a no-nonense psychiatrist, Capt. Hildebrandt (Anthony Holland Read More

Our Gang [Film Series]

Synopsis: Hal Roach's enduring Our Gang comedy shorts tickled audiences between 1922 and 1944. Originally an off-shoot from the extremely popular Sunshine Sammy series, the Our Gang shorts followed the lively adventures of a group of mischievous children as they played and learned the foibles of life. The Read More