Charles Cooper

Charles Darwin Cooper was an American actor who has played a wide variety of television and film roles for more than a half century from 1950 to 2001 On Broadway Cooper appeared in The Winner 1954 and All You Need Is One Good Break 1950 In 1958 Cooper played the outlaw Tate Masters in the episode Twelve Guns of NBCs western television series Cimarron City with George Montgomery and John Smith In 1959 he played a gunfighter Jack Rollins in the episode The Visitor of Lawman an ABCWarner Brothers Television western series He was cast as Matt Yordy in the 1961 episode Honest Abe of Chuck Connors The Rifleman 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 PenPal Cooper is perhaps best remembered for his appearances in Star Trek related roles He played the Klingon Chancellor Kmpec in Star Trek The Next Generation episodes Sins of the Father and Reunion and the Klingon General Korrd in Star Trek V The Final Frontier His other film roles included appearances in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man 1956 A Dogs Best Friend 1959 the comedy Valet Girls 1987 and the action film Blind Fury 1989 starring Rutger Hauer