Biography
Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including American Beauty (1999), October Sky (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the ac...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The History of Sound
2025
as Older Lionel
Two young music students, Lionel and David, attending the Boston Conservatory in 1917, bond over their shared love of folk music. They reconnect a few...

Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
as Walter
When they are unexpectedly forced to move in with an estranged relative, the Smart Family must navigate oversized dreams, identity struggles and regio...

Boston Strangler
2023
as Jack Maclaine
Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the lin...

With/In Volume 2
2022
An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist...

With/In Volume 2
2022
Director
An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist...

With/In Volume 2
2021
as (segment "Nuts")
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directo...

With/In Volume 2
2021
Director
Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directo...

Irresistible
2020
as Jack Hastings
A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.

Little Women
2019
as Mr. Laurence
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Them That Work
2019
as Self
Documentary about the impact left by John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan, about a shooting between company gun thugs and union organizers in Southern West ...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019
as Jerry Vogel
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon ...

It Takes a Lunatic
2019
as Self
The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in this portrait of a provocative, innovative artist.

Henrietta Bulkowski
2019
as Danny Wilcox
A determined young woman, crippled with a severe hunchback, will stop at nothing to fulfill her dream of seeing the world. This is the story of how sh...

Intelligent Lives
2018
as Self
Three pioneering young adults with intellectual disabilities - Micah, Naieer, and Naomie - challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high...

Intelligent Lives
2018
Executive Producer
Three pioneering young adults with intellectual disabilities - Micah, Naieer, and Naomie - challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high...

Cars 3
2017
as Smokey (voice)
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly pushed out of the sport he loves. To get back in th...

Live by Night
2016
as Chief Irving Figgis
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

Coming Through the Rye
2016
as J.D. Salinger
Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at hi...

Demolition
2016
as Phil Eastwood
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.

Fastball
2016
as Clifford Blankenship (voice)
Since 1912, baseball has been a game obsessed with statistics and speed. Thrown at upwards of 100 miles per hour, a fastball moves too quickly for hum...

The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
as Norman Osborn (uncredited)
For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school grad...

August: Osage County
2013
as Charlie Aiken
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to ...

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's ...

The Company You Keep
2012
as Daniel Sloan
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
as Gary (voice)
Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, foll...

The Muppets
2011
as Tex Richman
When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet brother, Wal...

Amigo
2011
as Col. Hardacre
Rafael is a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pr...

The Company Men
2010
as Phil Woodward
Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and t...

The Town
2010
as Stephen MacRay
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the grou...

The Tempest
2010
as Antonio
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been ban...

Remember Me
2010
as Neil Craig
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally ...
Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
2010
as Lt. Col. Kazinski (archive footage)
A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko and Jarhead) with news footage of former President Barack Obama.

Where the Wild Things Are
2009
as Douglas (voice)
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—cr...

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
2009
as Himself (Narrator)
Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in ...

Extreme Movie
2008
as FBI Agent Mike (uncredited)
A sketch comedy movie about the joys and embarrassments of teen sex. But mostly the embarrassments.

New York, I Love You
2008
as Alex
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond Dist...

Walt Whitman
2008
as Walt Whitman (voice)
This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn...

Married Life
2008
as Harry Allen
A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too mu...

The Kingdom
2007
as Grant Sykes
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.

Breach
2007
as Robert Hanssen
Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent, with his unexpect...

Primo Levi's Journey
2006
as Narrator (voice) (U.S. version)
In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, ...

Making Capote: Concept to Script
2006
as Self
Featurette on the making of Capote (2005).

Syriana
2005
as Jimmy Pope
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer...

Jarhead
2005
as Lt. Col. Kazinski
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit a...

Capote
2005
as Alvin Dewey
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".

Silver City
2004
as Dickie Pilager
The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor o...

The Bourne Supremacy
2004
as Alexander Conklin
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and M...

Seabiscuit
2003
as Tom Smith
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation...

My House in Umbria
2003
as Thomas 'Tom' Riversmith
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed...

Adaptation.
2002
as John Laroche
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting amb...

The Bourne Identity
2002
as Alexander Conklin
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank accoun...

Interstate 60
2002
as Bob Cody
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000
as Self
A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.

The Patriot
2000
as Col. Harry Burwell
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the s...

Me, Myself & Irene
2000
as Lieutenant Gerke
Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more f...

American Beauty
1999
as Colonel Fitts
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daug...

October Sky
1999
as John Hickam
Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However, in October 1957 everything changes when ...

The Horse Whisperer
1998
as Frank Booker
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.

Great Expectations
1998
as Joe
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and t...

Alone
1997
as Gus Jr.
John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, a...

Breast Men
1997
as Dr. William Larson
We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, the...

A Time to Kill
1996
as Dwayne Looney
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

Lone Star
1996
as Sam
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

Boys
1996
as Mr. John Baker
Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a change -- anything to shake up his staid ...

The Deliverance of Elaine
1996
as Charlie Skyler
A small town schoolteacher is hunted by a paroled con who holds the secret of her dark past.

Money Train
1995
as Torch
When a vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares, his foster brother—a fellow cop—tries to protect him.

Pharaoh's Army
1995
as Captain John Hull Abston
Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While th...

One More Mountain
1994
as Jack Reed
Margaret Reed, a wealthy and proud woman of Chicago unwillingly finds herself a member of the Donner party - a group of pioneers making their way to C...

This Boy's Life
1993
as Roy
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to b...

Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992
as Anthony Blessing
A haggard cowboy reflects upon his life while awaiting his death.

Bed of Lies
1992
as Price Daniel, Jr.
Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens...

City of Hope
1991
as Riggs
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who ...
To the Moon, Alice
1991
as Frank Wiliker
A homeless family of three sleeps on a TV production stage, by day looking for a job. One day somebody finds them.

Darrow
1991
as Eugene Debs
The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.

Thousand Pieces of Gold
1991
as Charlie
In 1880s China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, ...

Guilty by Suspicion
1991
as Larry Nolan
Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for h...

In Broad Daylight
1991
as Jack Wilson
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswom...

A Little Piece of Sunshine
1990
as Ernie Favaro
Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take pla...

Matewan
1987
as Joe Kenehan
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Keneh...

Bad Timing
1982
Nancy Savoca’s second student film follows two twelve-year olds, Bobby (Joey D’Arelli) and Denise (Kelly Cinnante) who run away to Hollywood. They lan...
Light on Broken Glass
N/A
as Jay
Preparing for the revival of a hit Broadway show towards the end of a celebrated career, actress Melody Harper is, for the first time in her life, unc...