{"id":417628,"date":"2011-05-04T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/04\/jackie-cooper-superman-star-jackie-cooper-dead-at-88\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T22:41:00","slug":"jackie-cooper-superman-star-jackie-cooper-dead-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/jackie-cooper-superman-star-jackie-cooper-dead-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"JACKIE COOPER – SUPERMAN STAR JACKIE COOPER DEAD AT 88"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Actor Jackie Cooper, the man who played Clark Kent’s newspaper boss in the first four Superman films, has died. He was 88.<\/span><\/p>\n

A former child star, Cooper was one of only two young stars to win a Best Actor\/Actress Oscar nomination before his 18th birthday for his role in 1931’s Skippy. He was nine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He also appeared in Treasure Island as Jim Hawkins and 1940’s The Return of Frank James before turning his attention to TV as a regular and, in his later years, directing dramas like M*A*S*H* and The White Shadow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But he’s best known by movie fans as Perry White, the editor of the Daily Sentinel, where Superman’s alter-ego Clark Kent worked in 1978’s Superman and its three sequels.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He was also a true American hero – Cooper served in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific towards the end of World War Two and became a leading naval recruitment officer in the Naval Reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the mid-1970s, just before he took on the role in the Superman film, he was promoted to a Captain.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to Imdb.com, the Navy proposed a period of active duty at the Pentagon for Cooper in 1980, which would have resulted in a promotion to Rear Admiral – but he declined the offer so he could concentrate on his directing dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Only one other celebrity, James Stewart, has held a higher military rank.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Flowers were placed on Cooper’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Wednesday afternoon (04May11).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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