Wyatt Emory Cooper

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Wyatt Emory Cooper (September 1, 1927 to January 5, 1978) was an American writer, screenwriter, and actor.

He was the fourth husband of Vanderbilt heiress and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt, as well as CNN anchor Anderson Cooper's father.

He was usually described as Wyatt Cooper, a character actor.

Personal life

He married Gloria Vanderbilt, her fourth husband, on December 24, 1963, marking her fourth marriage. The couple were often on the national "best-dressed" list. Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965–1988), who died by suicide, and Anderson Hays Cooper (b. ). (who is also an anchor for CNN) (1967): who is a journalist in the United States.

"It is in the family that we learn almost every single thing we'll ever know about loving," Cooper wrote in his 1975 book. My interest in immortality is invested in my sons' youth, their promise, and their possibilities. After suffering a heart attack in December 1978, he died in Manhattan, New York City, at the age of 50, during open heart surgery.

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Life and career

Cooper had his childhood in the small town of Pleasant Grove, Mississippi, outside of Quitman, Mississippi, the son of Rixie Jane Annie (née Anderson) and Emmet Debro Cooper. Cooper was from a poor family with deep Southern roots, and later moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, as a young child. He graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he majored in theater arts and began a career in acting.

In his twenties, Cooper moved to New York City to pursue acting. When Cooper was 26, he appeared on Broadway in the cast of The Strong Are Lonely, a drama that ran for a week at the Broadhurst Theatre in the fall of 1953. Cooper also wrote stories and plays.

In his thirties, Cooper lived in Los Angeles, attended both UCLA and UC Berkeley, and worked as a screenwriter. While residing in West Hollywood, then an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, Cooper lived near Dorothy Parker and her husband Alan Campbell. A close friendship developed, and a year after Parker's death in 1967, Cooper published an incisive and widely read profile in Esquire magazine, titled, "Whatever You Think Dorothy Parker Was Like, She Wasn't". Cooper moved to Manhattan in the early 1960s, and worked there as a magazine editor.

His writing includes the 1962 film The Chapman Report, the 1972 film The Glass House, and the 1975 book Families: A Memoir and a Celebration.

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