Richard Cooper
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 16, 1893
Place of Birth: Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, England, UK
Known For
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
Black Coffee
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
Lord Edgware Dies
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
The Ace of Spades
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
The Machinery of Dreams
After her mother is hospitalized due to a car crash, Lily, a girl of eight goes into a fairy tale told to her by her grandmother in search of a talisman to save her mom.
The Black Abbot
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
Shipyard Sally
A lancashire singer buys a pub in Clydebank and hits money troubles when the shipbyards are closed. She takes a petition to London to try to get them reopened.
Mannequin
'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)
Lord Richard in the Pantry
'Poor lord poses as butler to avoid framed arrest for theft.' (British Film Catalogue)
At the Villa Rose
Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
Filmography
as The Astronomer
as Sir John Treacher
as Claude Pember
as Tony
as Captain Hastings
as Lord Jerry Pilkdown
as Lord Bunny Carstairs
as Capt. Hastings
as Toby Entwhistle
as Rollo Adair
as Lord Richard Sandridge
as Byron
as Jim Frobisher
as Ricardo