Stuart Cooper

Stuart W. Cooper (born 1942) is an American filmmaker, actor and writer. Cooper was a resident of the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s where his most notable film appearance was as one of The Dirty Dozen, Roscoe Lever, in 1967. His other film roles included I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967) as one of Oliver Reed's film crew, and Subterfuge (1968) starring Gene Barry and Joan Collins. Overlord, his 1975 WWII collage docudrama, originally failed to get US theatrical distribution and was only shown there in select screenings and on television (including a run on California's Z Channel in 1982, which was highlighted in the acclaimed 2004 TV documentary film Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession). His 1974 film Little Malcolm was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear. The following year, Overlord won the Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the 25th Berlin Festival.

Works

3.0

Magic Man

In order to see magic idol Krell Darius perform his world-famous magic act, a beautiful aspiring young-magician, Tatiana, travels from New York to Las Vegas with her closest friends, BFFs, Elena and Vera. As the layers of illusion unfold, so too do the dark windows into Tatiana's past

Release Date: 2009-11-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 17

6.0

Armed and Deadly: The Making of 'The Dirty Dozen'

A featurette documentary that looks into the making of "The Dirty Dozen," containing interviews with the main cast, film scholars, and production personnel.

Release Date: 2006-01-01

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

4.2

The Hustle

Maya and Tony are a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Maya seduces businessmen while Tony copies their credit cards. It's a smooth con until one of their victims, Pierce, pulls a gun. Instead of killing them, Pierce offers the desperate couple a chance at the biggest score of their lives.

Release Date: 2000-04-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

6.3

Chameleon

A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028.

Release Date: 1998-10-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 8

6.2

The Hunted

Insurance investigator Samantha Clark goes deep into a Pacific Northwest forest to retrieve $12 million from a crashed airplane. While there she meets a mysterious mountain man who claims he can help her hunt down the money but instead he ends up hunting her.

Release Date: 1998-02-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

7.2

The Ticket

Cee Cee and her family crash land in the middle of the wilderness while on the way to collect a $23 million lottery win, and must flee for their lives after being set upon by criminals eager to steal the money for themselves.

Release Date: 1997-08-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

3.0

Dead Ahead

A family's camping trip turns into a nightmare when a gang of bank robbers forces the son to guide them through the wilderness to a secret airstrip. Armed only with a hunting bow, the boy's mother, who is a skilled archer and survivalist, tracks the men, determined to do anything to rescue her son.

Release Date: 1996-04-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Bloodhounds II

An author is on the trail of a vigilante.

Release Date: 1996-01-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

5.7

Out of Annie's Past

Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a secret. As the stakes increase, though, so do the ruthless and brutal actions of all those involved. Soon, deaths of some major players in the game change the stakes from dollars and cents to life and death.

Release Date: 1995-03-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

4.2

Bitter Vengeance

Annie marries Jack Westford, a cop when they met. Six years later, Jack is now working as a security guard in a bank and feels that he was unfairly fired from the force. He also appears to be no longer interested in Annie and has an affair with another bank employee. Among his duties is delivering old money for disposal. He comes up with a plan to steal the money and run away. Part of his plan is to fake his death and frame Annie. While the police suspect that she killed Jack and knows where the money is, there's also an insurance investigator on her back.

Release Date: 1994-07-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

7.0

Dancing with Danger

A Portland taxi dancer is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.

Release Date: 1994-04-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

1.0

Rubdown

A rich man offers his masseur, a former baseball player with damaged knees, $50,000 to have an affair with his wife so she'll be in violation of their pre-nuptial agreement and he can divorce her without losing his fortune. The masseur agrees although he is already having an affair with the wife, and they together work out a way to set up her husband in order that she does get his fortune. But when the client is murdered and the real wife shows up the masseur has to clear his own name, and as he begins to piece together the evidence he realises that he's been played by yet another man who still holds a grudge from years before.

Release Date: 1993-09-15

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

One Special Victory

A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He is assigned to coach a basketball team of mentally handicapped citizens. At first, he is reluctant and thinks selfishly of his own needs. Later on, he finds the real meaning of life which is helping others.

Release Date: 1991-12-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

To the Bitter End

Jorge is a DJ at a Lisbon nightclub. But the club owner, Queirós, who is also involved in diamond traffic, is obsessive over a woman, Cláudia, who betrayed him before. When she unexpectedly returns to Portugal and to the club, Jorge immediately understands Queirós's obsession over her. For her, Jorge also gets involved in diamond traffic and is slowly dragged into a world of passion, violence and betrayal.

Release Date: 1991-11-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

4.2

Payoff

A kid unknowingly carries a bomb to his parents. When they get killed he is traumatized. Many hellish years later he vows revenge against the criminals who gave him the bomb.

Release Date: 1991-01-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

The Fortunate Pilgrim
5.0

The Fortunate Pilgrim

The saga of an Italian immigrant family in search of the American dream.

Release Date: 1988-04-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1

6.4

Christmas Eve

Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.

Release Date: 1986-12-22

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

The Long Hot Summer
5.4

The Long Hot Summer

When drifter Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town, Will Varner, a family patriarch, sees Ben as a better choice to inherit the family business than his only son, Jody. Will therefore tries to push Ben and his daughter Clara into marriage. Clara is initially reluctant to court Ben, and Jody senses that Ben threatens his position.

Release Date: 1985-10-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 9

A.D.
4.9

A.D.

A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.

Release Date: 1985-03-31

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 10

5.6

The Disappearance

The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.

Release Date: 1977-11-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 19

6.8

Overlord

During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.

Release Date: 1975-07-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 82

6.1

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near fascist "party" that promotes male sexual dominance and which attracts a couple of other unsavoury confused characters.

Release Date: 1974-06-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 10

Kelly Country

Release Date: 1973-10-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

6.7

A Test of Violence

Stuart Cooper's short about the work of Spanish artist Juan Genovés is an inspired introduction to the works of this extraordinary artist, exploring its minimalist aesthetic and storytelling qualities through a variety of cinematic techniques, including rostrum, animation, news footage and live action recreations.

Release Date: 1969-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7

5.6

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.

Release Date: 1967-12-18

Character: Lewis Force

Vote Count: 11

7.6

The Dirty Dozen

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

Release Date: 1967-06-15

Character: Roscoe Lever

Vote Count: 1215

The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.

Release Date: 1963-09-27

Character: Flanders Callaway

Episode Count: 2

The Saint
7.3

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

Release Date: 1962-10-04

Character: Joe Halston

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 115

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