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- Birth nameDouglas Ralph Cooper
- Wilkie Cooper was born on October 19, 1911 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Avengers (1961) and Stage Fright (1950). He was married to Peggy Bryan. He died on December 15, 2001 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK.
- SpousePeggy Bryan(194? - January 12, 1996) (her death, 2 children)
- Former child actor, the son of pioneer British cameraman D.P. "Dippy" Cooper. Began working behind the camera as an assistant to Georges Perinal at Alexander Korda's Denham Studio. Promoted to Director of Photography in the 1940's, he went on to work with top film makers like Hitchcock, Balcon, Launder & Gilliatt, Raoul Walsh (whom he addressed as 'General') and Ray Harryhausen, among others.
- Son of D.P. Cooper.
- Was a member of the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC).
- According to Richard Lester, for whom he worked on "The Mouse On The Moon", he ran a second-hand car business at the same time that he was working in films, and that he was constantly disappearing from the sound-stage to take telephone calls concerned with this second occupation. This did not endear him to Lester.
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