George Melville Cooper 15 October 1896 13 March 1973 best known as Melville Cooper was a British stage film and television actor Among his roles are the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn and Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice with Greer Garson His stage debut came in StratfordUponAvon at the age of eighteen In 1934 he moved to the United States where he was usually cast as ineffectual snobs or crooks As his film career wound down in the 1950s he turned to television and back to the stage He was an early panelist on the American game show Ive Got A Secret Cooper died in 1973 and was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery Description above from the Wikipedia article Melville Cooper licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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