Tommy Cooper

At 63 years old, Tommy Cooper physical status not available right now. We will update Tommy Cooper's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Thomas Frederick Cooper (1921-2005), a British prop comedian and magician, was born in 1921.

He wore a red fez on a daily basis, and his appearance was hefty and heavy, with 6 foot 5 inches (1.96 m) and more than 15 stone (95 kg) in weight.

Cooper died of a heart attack on television on April 15, 1984.

Early life

Thomas Frederick Cooper was born in 1921 at 19 Llwyn-On Street in Caerphilly, Glamorgan. He was born by the woman who owned the house in which the family was staying. Thomas H. Cooper, a Welsh recruiting sergeant and later coal miner, and Catherine Gertrude (née Wright), Thomas' English wife from Crediton, Devon, was born Thomas H. Cooper.

Since his father wanted to move to Exeter, Devon, when Cooper was three, he may have had ramifications for his health in Caerphilly. He acquired the West Country accent in Exeter, which became part of his routine. Cooper inquired if he considered himself a Welshman while on a trip to Wales to see the house where he was born. "Well, yes, my father is Welsh... and my mother is from Devon." I was in Caerphilly and left here about a year old when I was about a year old, and the BBC interviewer and himself amused.

An aunt gave him a magical set when he was eight years old, and he spent hours perfecting the tricks. David Cooper's Magic Shop, located in Slough, Buckinghamshire, was established in the 1960s by his brother David (born 1930). The store later moved to Eastbourne, East Sussex, and was operated by David's daughter Sabrina. Cooper, a schoolboy, became a shipwright in Southampton, Hampshire. He was called up as a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards in 1940 and spent seven years as a trooper. He joined Montgomery's Desert Rats in Egypt. Cooper joined a Navy, Army, and Air Force Institute (NAAFI) entertainment group and created an act based on his magic tricks interspersed with comedy. One evening in Cairo, amid a sketch in which he was supposed to be wearing a pith helmet, Cooper remembered the prop and borrowed a fez from a passing waiter, causing a riot. After that, he wore a fez, a prop later described as a "20th-century comedy icon."

Personal life

Cooper married Gwen Henty in Nicosia, Cyprus, on February 24, 1947. She died in 2002. Thomas, who was born in 1956, and Victoria were married in 1988; Thomas was born in 1956 and died in 1988.

Cooper had a close relationship with his personal assistant, Mary Fieldhouse, who wrote about it in her book "For the Love of Tommy (1986).

Cooper's will was established by probate on August 29, 1984, at £327,272.

On Christmas Day 2018, Tommy Cooper: In His Own Words, a documentary about him, was broadcast on Channel 5. Following years of abstaining "out of sheer sadness," Cooper's daughter, Vicky, appeared in her first television interview.

Source

Career

Cooper was influenced by Laurel and Hardy, Will Hay, Max Miller, Bob Hope, and Robert Orben.

Cooper made his first appearance in 1947 with Miff Ferrie, a trombonist in a band called The Jackdaws, who hired him to appear as the second-spot comedian in a performance starring the sand dance company Marqueeze and the Dance of the Seven Veils. Cooper then began two years of hard work, including a tour of Europe and a stint in pantomime, as one of Cinderella's ugly sisters. The period ended with a season-long performance at the Windmill Theatre, where he doubled up performing cabaret. He appeared on 52 shows in a week. Ferrie was Cooper's sole agent for 37 years until Cooper's death in 1984. Frank Holder, a percussionist, appeared on televisions.

Cooper was quickly recognizable as the conjurer whose tricks never came to fruition, but it was his television work that brought him to national prominence. He appeared on BBC Talent Show New to You in March 1948 and then briefly with Thames Television from 1968 to 1980, notably for his appearances in his own shows. He was one of the world's most recognisable comedians due to his numerous television appearances during the 1970s.

"Everyone agrees that he was cruel," John Fisher says in his biography of Cooper: "Everyone agrees that he was cruel." Quite simply, he was deemed "the tightest man in show business" by virtue of a pathological apprehension of reaching into his pocket." One of Cooper's stunts was to pay the exact taxi fare, and when leaving the cab, he's sattered something into the taxi driver's pocket. That something would turn out to be a tea bag.

Alcohol had begun to degrade Cooper's reputation, and club owners complained that he arrived late or rushed through his show in five minutes by the mid-1970s. In addition,, he suffered from chronic indigestion, lumbago, sciatica, bronchitis, and severe circulation issues in his legs. Cooper realized the severity of his illness, he cut back on his alcohol intake, and his energy and excitement returned to his performance. However, he never stopped drinking and could have been injured: on a triumphant appearance with Michael Parkinson, he failed to set the alarm on the guillotine illusion into which he had cajoled Parkinson, but only after the floor manager saved Parkinson from serious injury or worse.

Cooper was a big cigar smoker (up to 40 a day) as well as an overdrinker. During the 1980s, he suffered a heart attack while attending a show in Rome. In Night Out at the London Casino, three months later he was back on television.

By 1980, his inebriation had caused Thames Television not to produce another starring film, and Cooper's Half Hour was his last. He did continue to appear on other television shows as a guest on other television shows, but he did work with Eric Sykes on two Thames productions in 1982.

Source