Charles Darwin Cooper[citation needed] (August 11, 1926 – November 29, 2013) was an American actor who played a wide variety of television and film roles from 1950 to 2001. On Broadway, Cooper appeared in The Winner (1954) and All You Need Is One Good Break (1950).[1]
Biography
In 1958 he played outlaw Cando in Season 3 Episode 36 of "Gunsmoke" titled "Chester's Hanging", and again as murderer Jim Box in the S4E17 episode “Young Love”.
Also in 1958, Cooper played the outlaw Tate Masters in the episode "Twelve Guns" of NBC's Westerntelevision seriesCimarron City with George Montgomery and John Smith and played Lt. William Rath in "The Deserter" episode of Tales of Wells Fargo. In 1959, he played a gunfighter, Jack Rollins, in the episode "The Visitor" of Lawman, an ABC/Warner Bros. Television Western series. He was cast as Matt Yordy in the 1961 episode "Honest Abe" of Chuck Connors' The Rifleman. He also played Larsen in S5 E6 "I Take This Woman" which aired 11/4/1962, and Rudy Croft S4 E4 "The Stand In" that aired 10/23/1961.
Cooper made four guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of murderer Philip Strague in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Buried Clock". His final appearance in 1962 was as Ben Willoughby in "The Case of the Poison Pen-Pal".