Chuck Cooper
Known for: Acting
Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).
Filmography
Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Mr. Tassler
1999
Series
Law & Order
Walters' Attorney
1990
Series
Law & Order
Art Samuels
1990
Series
Law & Order
Lester Poole
1990
Series
Law & Order
Rolando August
1990
Series
Law & Order
Drew MacDaniel
1990
Series
The Good Wife
Gerard Gallo
2009
Series
Without a Trace
Barry's Ex-Boss
2002
Series
Gossip Girl
Horace Rogers
2007
Series
White Collar
Parole Officer
2009
Series
NYPD Blue
Bus Driver
1993
Series
Third Watch
Lieutenant Kyle
1999
Series
New Amsterdam
Leon Hargrow
2018
Series
House of Cards
Barney Hull
2013
Series
Bull
Judge Elmendorf
2016
Series
Madam Secretary
Mitch Sarno
2014
Series
Nurse Jackie
Intestine Man
2009
Series
Poker Face
Deuteronomy
2023
Series
New York Undercover
Sawyer
1994
Series
Power Book II: Ghost
Reverend Macedon
2020
Series
Hack
Hayden
2002
Series
God Friended Me
Larry
2018
Series
Strangers with Candy
Sack Race Referee
1999
Series
100 Centre Street
Charlie the Bridgeman
2001
Film
American Gangster
Private Doctor
2007
Series
The Blacklist: Redemption
General Phillips
2017
Series
The First Lady
Martin Luther King Sr.
2022
Film
Malcolm X
Customer
1992
Series
Little Voice
Percy
2020
Film
The Peacemaker
NYPD Cop
1997
Film
The Hurricane
Earl Martin
1999
Film
Vacation Friends
Larry
2021
Film
The Juror
Stockbroker
1996
Film
North
Umpire
1994
Film
tick, tick... BOOM!
"Sunday" Legend #1
2021
Film
A Vigilante
Lawyer
2019
Film
Gloria
Male Guard
1999
Film
Evening
Ray
2007
Film
A Crime
Will
2006
Film
Find Me Guilty
James Washington
2006
Film
Chapter 27
Cabbie
2007
Film
Romeo and Juliet
Lord Capulet
2014
Film
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Chauncey Eskridge
2013
Film
Our Song
Benjamin
2000
Film
Sweet Nothing
Mark the Cop
1995
Film
The Opportunists
Arnon Morris
2000
Film
Action Family
Cop
1987
Film
Noise
Judge Gibson
2007
Film
Criminal Justice
Judge Whitney
1990
Film
Road Show
Papa Mizner
2019
Film
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
2015
Film
Downtown: A Street Tale
Sergeant Williams
2004
Film
The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
Leonato
2019
After All