Cast & creator
Chuck Cooper
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order, Law & Order
Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).
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film credits
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television credits
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1987–2023 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (53)
Showing 53 of 53 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Mr. Tassler
1999
Law & Order
Walters' Attorney
1990Law & Order
Art Samuels
1990Law & Order
Lester Poole
1990Law & Order
Rolando August
1990Law & Order
Drew MacDaniel
1990
The Good Wife
Gerard Gallo
2009
Without a Trace
Barry's Ex-Boss
2002
Third Watch
Lieutenant Kyle
1999
Gossip Girl
Horace Rogers
2007
NYPD Blue
Bus Driver
1993
White Collar
Parole Officer
2009
Madam Secretary
Mitch Sarno
2014
House of Cards
Barney Hull
2013
Bull
Judge Elmendorf
2016
New Amsterdam
Leon Hargrow
2018
Nurse Jackie
Intestine Man
2009
New York Undercover
Sawyer
1994
Poker Face
Deuteronomy
2023
Power Book II: Ghost
Reverend Macedon
2020
God Friended Me
Larry
2018
Strangers with Candy
Sack Race Referee
1999
American Gangster
Private Doctor
2007
Hack
Hayden
2002
100 Centre Street
Charlie the Bridgeman
2001
The First Lady
Martin Luther King Sr.
2022
Little Voice
Percy
2020
The Blacklist: Redemption
General Phillips
2017
The Peacemaker
NYPD Cop
1997
The Hurricane
Earl Martin
1999
Vacation Friends
Larry
2021
Malcolm X
Customer
1992
tick, tick... BOOM!
"Sunday" Legend #1
2021
Find Me Guilty
James Washington
2006
The Juror
Stockbroker
1996
A Vigilante
Lawyer
2019
North
Umpire
1994
Gloria
Male Guard
1999
Evening
Ray
2007
Our Song
Benjamin
2000
Chapter 27
Cabbie
2007
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Chauncey Eskridge
2013
Sweet Nothing
Mark the Cop
1995
Romeo and Juliet
Lord Capulet
2014
Noise
Judge Gibson
2007
A Crime
Will
2006
The Opportunists
Arnon Morris
2000
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
Wally / Charles Gilpin / Max Siegel / Langston Hughes
2015
Criminal Justice
Judge Whitney
1990
The Public's Much Ado About Nothing
Leonato
2019
Downtown: A Street Tale
Sergeant Williams
2004
Action Family
Cop
1987