Chris Cooper
Year Title Role
1987 Matewan Joe Kenehan
1991 Guilty by Suspicion Larry Nolan
1991 Thousand Pieces of Gold Charlie
1991 City of Hope Riggs
1993 This Boy 's Life Roy
1995 Pharaoh 's Army Captain John Hull Abston
1995 Money Train Torch
1996 Boys John Baker
1996 Lone Star Sam Deeds
1996 A Time to Kill Deputy Dwayne Powell Looney
1997 Breast Men Dr. William Larson
1998 Great Expectations Joe
1998 The Horse Whisperer Frank Booker
1999 The 24 Hour Woman Ron Hacksby
1999 October Sky John Hickam
1999 American Beauty Colonel Frank Fitts , USMC
2000 Me , Myself & Irene Lieutenant Gerke
2000 The Patriot Colonel Harry Burwell
2002 Interstate 60 Bob Cody
2002 The Bourne Identity Alexander Conklin
Filmography -- Film
Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor. He has appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including the drama American Beauty (1999), the biopic about a NASA engineer titled October Sky (1999), the action spy film The Bourne Identity (2002), the biographical sports film Seabiscuit (2003), the biographical film about Truman Capote, Capote (2005), the geopolitical thriller Syriana (2005), the action-thriller The Kingdom (2007), the crime drama The Town (2010), the musical comedy film The Muppets (2011), the biographical film about Fred Rogers, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and the coming-of-age film Little Women (2019). He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove, which became one of the most successful Westerns in history. Cooper won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 2002 film Adaptation. He played a lead role in the historical and political thriller Breach (2007), playing FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen. He played Daniel Sloan in the 2012 political thriller The Company You Keep, and supervillain Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He also portrayed Al Templeton on the 2016 Hulu miniseries 11.22.63. He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, including Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991), Lone Star (1996), Silver City (2004) and Amigo (2010).