{"id":17389,"date":"2011-05-05T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=17389"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:57:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T01:27:59","slug":"vale-jackie-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2011\/05\/05\/vale-jackie-cooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Jackie Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17393\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17393\" title=\"110504-jackieCooper-353p_grid-3x2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/110504-jackieCooper-353p_grid-3x2-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/110504-jackieCooper-353p_grid-3x2-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/110504-jackieCooper-353p_grid-3x2.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Cooper - 1922-2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fans of Christopher Reeves&#8217; <em>Superman<\/em> series will be sadden to leard today that Perry White, played by Jackie Cooper, has passed away. Cooper, who portrayed the cigar-chomping newspaper editor in each of the four films, began his career as a child, and after numerous bit-parts eventually scored an Oscar Nomination for his role in <em>Skippy<\/em> (1931), which was also one of the very first films to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper&#8217;s fame rose with this nomination, and he found himself appearing in a number of a-list projects in the years following, including 1934&#8217;s <em>Treasure Island<\/em>. In his later years, he was VP of programe development for Screen Gems&#8217; TV division, before returning to acting in a major way with the 1978 blockbuster, <em>Superman: The Movie<\/em>. He also found work directing episodes of television series, including <em>M*A*S*H<\/em> and <em>The White Shadow<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cooper passed away on May 3rd, aged 88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Christopher Reeves&#8217; Superman series will be sadden to leard today that Perry White,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}