American actor

Chris Cooper

Christopher Walton Cooper is an American actor. Having made his debut as a stage actor, he made his breakthrough on television as Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed Western television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989). He has appeared in several major Hollywood films including A Time to Kill (1996), October Sky (1999), American Beauty (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Live by Night (2016), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Adaptation.

Born

1951

July 9

Died

Living

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1950s

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Key dates

1951 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

118 Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
381 The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.
491 Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna.
551 A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affects the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths.

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The world in 1951

When Chris arrived

april 11 Korean War: President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.
april 11 The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
april 17 The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
april 22 Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on July 9

Alexander William Doniphan 1808–1887 American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1808) Carlos Chagas 1879–1934 Brazilian physician and parasitologist (died 1934) Federico Bahamontes 1928– Spanish cyclist (died 2023) George F. Durand 1850–1889 Canadian architect (born 1850) Lee Hazlewood 1929–2007 American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1929) Ottorino Respighi 1879–1936 Italian composer and conductor (born 1879) Pamela Adlon 1966– American actress and voice artist Sarah Ashton-Cirillo 1977– American journalist

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1951

Alley Mills 1951– American actress Andrei Kozyrev 1951– Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia Ashok Gehlot 1951– Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan Barry Marshall 1951– Australian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Bobby Jones 1951–1971 American basketball player Bootsy Collins 1951– American singer-songwriter and bass player Charly García 1951– Argentine singer-songwriter and keyboard player Chesley Sullenberger 1951– American airline pilot and safety expert Dan Fouts 1951– American football player and sportscaster

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