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
all 29
Movies 18
self 11
TV Shows 11
Parkinson at 50 (2021)
Tommy Cooper: In His Own Words (2018)
How Magic Changed TV (2017)
Tommy Cooper - The Missing Pieces (2006)
Tommy Cooper - The Very Best Of (2006)
The Best of Tommy Cooper (2004)
Tommy Cooper - A Feztival Of Fun With Tommy Cooper (2001)
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch (2000)
Tommy Cooper - Tribute To A Comic Genius (2000)
Tommy Cooper: Master Of Comedy (1997)
Just Like That! (1989)
An Audience with Joan Rivers (1984)
It's Your Move (1982)
Cooper's Half Hour (1980)
Cooper - Just Like That (1978)
An Audience with... (1978)
Cooper (1975)
The Tommy Cooper Hour (1973)
It's Tommy Cooper (1970)
The Plank (1967)
Life With Cooper (1966)
Cooperama (1966)
The Cool Mikado (1963)
And the Same to You (1960)
The Bruce Forsyth Show (1959)
Cooper's Capers (1958)
Cooper (or Life With Tommy) (1957)
Tommy Cooper - Just Like That
Tommy Cooper at the BBC
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1921-03-19
Deathday1984-04-15 (63 years old)
Birth NameThomas Frederick Cooper
Birth PlaceCaerphilly, United Kingdom
ChildrenThomas Henty
CitizenshipsWales, United Kingdom
Also Known AsThomas Frederick Cooper
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