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Gladys Cooper
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gladys Constance Cooper, Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, Dame Gladys Cooper, Dame Gladys Merivale, Gladys (Constance) Cooper
British actress (1888-1971)
OverviewAI-generated
Gladys Cooper was a British female actor, stage actor, film actor, and theatre manager. Born on December 18, 1888, in Hither Green, she began her professional work period in 1905. She was a citizen of the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Cooper was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
Her recorded works include *The chalk garden*, *Call it a day*, and *Gladys Cooper*. She was married to Philip Merivale. Cooper died of pneumonia from natural causes on November 17, 1971, in Henley-on-Thames.
Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1888
- Works
- 3
Top works
- The chalk garden
- Call it a day
- Gladys Cooper
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Chiswick, England, UK
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she was starring in dramatic roles and silent films by World War I. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she…
Known for
- The Switch — Grand Duchess Ozerov1976
- The Persuaders! — Grand Duchess Ozerov1971
- The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens — Mrs. Ternan1970
- A Nice Girl Like Me — Aunt Mary1969
- The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest1968
- The Happiest Millionaire — Aunt Mary1967
- Callan1967
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. — Mama Rosha1966
- My Fair Lady — Mrs. Higgins1964
- The Rogues — Margaret St. Clair1964
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1888
- Active to
- 1971
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 5
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gladys+Cooper">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Measuring the efficiency of decision making units
· 1978 · cited 21,809x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,974x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,797x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,809x
- Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
· 2020 · cited 14,080x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Gladys Constance Cooper , ( 1888-12-18 ) 18 December 1888, Hither Green , London , England
- Died
- 17 November 1971 (1971-11-17) (aged 82), Henley-on-Thames , Oxfordshire , England
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1905–1971
- Spouses
- Capt. Herbert John Buckmaster ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1908 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1921 ) Sir Neville Pearson, 2nd Baronet ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1927 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1936 ) Philip Merivale ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1937 ; died 1946 )
- Children
- 3, incl. John R. Buckmaster
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress, theatrical manager and producer, whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.
Beginning as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she starred in dramatic roles and silent films before the First World War. She managed the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1934, where she starred in many roles. From the early 1920s Cooper won praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others.
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