Actor
Garry Cooper
Born June 2, 1955 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK29 films
Hull born Garry Cooper is an actor who came to fame playing Peter, the flash boyfriend of Leslie Ash and rival to Phil Daniels' wannabe mod in cult 1979 hit Quadrophenia. Other film credits include Michael Radford's big screen adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, My Beautiful Launderette, Prick Up Your Ears and Derek Jarman's Caravaggio. TV credits include The Vice, The Bill, Soldier Soldier and Zen.
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First watchBeautiful Thing19967.3as Ronnie PearceDuring a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
29 films as actor- 2025H Is for HawkCharlie
- 2025The Thing with FeathersKeith
- 2013Henry VI, Part 2: The Houses of York and LancasterHumphrey, Duke of Gloucester
- 2013Henry VI: Harry The SixthHumphrey, Duke of Gloucester
- 2010Bibliothèque PascalThe Professor
- 2010Universal Soldier: RegenerationDoctor Porter
- 2009Dead Man RunningFaceless Man
- 2006The Harvest
- 1997Hostile WatersGennady
- 1997BreakoutAndy Cresswell
- 1997The FixSkipper
- 1997Paul: The EmissarySaul / Paul
- 1996The Writing on the WallFred
- 1996Beautiful ThingRonnie Pearce
- 1994JacobKanaaniter # 1
- 1992An Ungentlemanly ActColour Sgt Muir
- 1991London Kills MeMr. G.
- 1990Mountains of the MoonStroyan
- 1987Prick Up Your EarsActor 1 – Mr Sloane
- 1986CaravaggioDavide
- 1985My Beautiful LaundretteSquatter
- 1985A Crack in the Ice2nd Guard
- 1984Nineteen Eighty-FourGuard
- 1982P'tang, Yang, KipperbangTommy
- 1981Going GentlyOrderly
- 1980Looking for VickyRed
- 1979QuadropheniaPeter
- 1979Degree of UncertaintyBilly
- 1979Ploughman's ShareYoung Chas