
Garry Cooper
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For

Jacob
1994

Mountains of the Moon
1990

Beautiful Thing
1996

Universal Soldier: Regeneration
2010

Bibliothèque Pascal
2010

Going Gently
1981

Prick Up Your Ears
1987

Hostile Waters
1997

The Pigeon Tunnel
2023

The Writing on the Wall
1996

Breakout
1997

Henry VI, Part 2: The Houses of York and Lancaster
2013

Looking for Vicky
1980

Broadside: Emerging Empires Collide
2009

Henry VI: Harry The Sixth
2013

An Ungentlemanly Act
1992

Quadrophenia
1979

My Beautiful Laundrette
1985

Paul: The Emissary
1997

Caravaggio
1986

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
1982

Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984

The Fix
1997

Dead Man Running
2009

Ploughman's Share
1979

Degree of Uncertainty
1979

The Thing with Feathers
2025

London Kills Me
1991

The Harvest
2006

A Crack in the Ice
1985

Hiroshima
2005

Zen
2011

Playhouse
1974

Perfect Scoundrels
1990

Peak Practice
1993

Lovejoy
1986

Better
2023

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987

Vera
2011

Casualty
1986

Landscapers
2021

Heartbeat
1992

In a Land of Plenty
2001

The Vice
1999

House of the Dragon
2022

Heartbeat
1992

Soldier Soldier
1991

Soldier Soldier
1991

Soldier Soldier
1991

Casualty
1986

Midsomer Murders
1997

Play for Today
1970

Gangs of London
2020

Dempsey and Makepeace
1985

Murder in Mind
2001

The Darling Buds of May
1991

The Chief
1990

The Sandman
2022

Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003

I Fought the Law
2025

Always and Everyone
1999