Jackie Cooper

Cooper has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1501 Vine Street. Daniel Day-Lewis attended the same theatre school, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with fellow British thespian Miranda Richardson. The title comes from Norman Taurog's threat to shoot young Jackie's dog if he couldn't cry in Skippy. Day-Lewis has also a son from a former relationship with French actress Isabelle Adjani. His autobiography, Please Don't Shoot My Dog, was published in 1981. They live in Ireland and have two sons. Later in the 1970s, he found renewed fame as Clark Kent's editor, Perry White, in the Superman feature film series starring Christopher Reeve. Daniel Day-Lewis is married to actress and director Rebecca Miller, daughter of Arthur Miller (author of The Crucible).

It was his television acting that convinced him that he could become a director, and he successfully moved behind the camera, to become one of the busier television directors, for which he won Emmy Awards. Other film roles have included The Age of Innocence co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer, In the Name of the Father, The Crucible with Winona Ryder, Last of the Mohicans, and Gangs of New York with Leonardo DiCaprio. Cooper had problems finding roles as he became an adolescent, and he served in World War II, so his career was at a nadir when he starred in two popular television series, The People's Choice and Hennesey. He returned to the stage to work again with Richard Eyre, as Hamlet at the National Theater, but was forced to leave the production close to the end of its run suffering from exhaustion, and has not appeared on stage since. He began a long on-screen relationship with actor Wallace Beery in such films as The Champ (1931), The Bowery (1933), Treasure Island (1934), and O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935). His performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot (1989) won him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for best actor. Our Gang producer Hal Roach sold Jackie's contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in mid-1931, as he felt the youngster would have a better future in features. In 1987 he assumed leading man status in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being co-starring Juliette Binoche.

The movie catapulted young Jackie into superstardom. The latter two films opened in New York City on the same day. His first non-Our Gang role was in 1931, when his uncle Norman Taurog hired him to star in Skippy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor (the youngest actor ever to receive the nomination). This role was followed by a completely different character in A Room with a View in 1986, where he played a snobbish, clumsy upper-class-dandy. He conntinued to appear in Our Gang for two more years, becoming its main character. His most notable Our Gang shorts explore his character's crush on Miss Crabtree, the schoolteacher played by June Marlowe. In 1984 he had a supporting role in The Bounty, but came to public notice as half of a gay biracial couple in My Beautiful Laundrette. Born in Los Angeles, California the nephew of director Norman Taurog, Cooper first appeared in the movies in Boxing Gloves in 1929, one of the Our Gang comedies. He then went back to the stage in both Bristol and London, and did not return to movies until appearing in a bit part in Gandhi in 1982.

Jackie Cooper (born September 15, 1922) is an American actor and director, one of the few child actors who managed to transition into an adult career. He was trained on the stage, in Bristol, but he made his film debut in Sunday Bloody Sunday in 1971. Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the gifted actors of his generation, known for his total devotion to the role he plays. His mother is Jill Balcon, actress daughter of Sir Michael Balcon, head of Ealing Studios. Although born in London he holds an Irish passport as his father was the Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of England.

Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born April 29, 1957) is a British actor. 1990 - Won - Best Actor in a Leading Role - My Left Foot. 1994 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - In the Name of the Father. 2002 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Leading Role - Gangs of New York.