Jackie Cooper is featured (briefly) in the new A&E special, "Look, Up In The Sky - The Amazing Story Of Superman". Cooper played the part of Daily Planet editor Perry White in the 1970s/80s Christopher Reeve "Superman" movies.

Cooper is on screen only for a moment or two. He looks pretty much the same as he did in "Candidate For Crime". Not bad, considering that he's about 84 years old! The "talking head" segment seems to be brand new. The special was made to coincide with the new movie.

Also not bad, considering that I recently ommitted him from "the living" in a post about wishing that Universal would invite "still living" guest-murderers to provide audio commentary for their episodes on DVD.

That's a great point...which of the original killers are still living? I think Dr. Fleming is (wasn't he at the end of Speilberg's "War of the Worlds"?), Honor Blackman, Clive Revill, that awesome lady from "Make Me a Perfect Murder" (perfect murderess but not a perfect episode)? I'm too lazy to look them all up on imdb...does anyone have a definite list they can copy and paste without typing it all up?

In the still living category it breaks down thusly:
Season 1
-Gene Barry
Lee Grant
Robert Culp
Susan Clark
(4 of 9. Eddie Albert passed away in the last year)

Season 2
-Culp
Honor Blackman
Leonard Nimoy
Martin Landau
(3 of 9 from 8 episodes)

Season 3
-Culp
Vera Miles
Jackie Cooper
(3 of 8)

Season 4
-Robert Conrad
Dick Van ****
Patrick McGoohan
Robert Vaughn
(5 of 6)

Season 5
-McGoohan
Hector Elizondo
Ricardo Montalban
(3 of 6. Fred Draper died in 1999)

Season 6
-William Shatner
Joyce Van Patten
Theodore Bikel
(3 of 3)

Season 7
-Trish Van Devere
Louis Jourdan
Nicol Williamson
Clive Revill
(4 of 5)

So that means 25 of 46 Columbo killers are still alive. The first to die incidentally, was Laurence Harvey, who died just eight months after he made his Columbo appearance in 1973.

Thanks! BTW, I thought Louis Jordan was dead all these years, but I was wrong.

Looking good Mr C



WD

jackie really does still look good!!

hey welshie, are you a superman fan or something??

Thanks for putting that up, WD!

No probs Headache. I bought the DVD so thought i'd do a screen grab

And Cass, why do you think i'm a superman fan? its not like we have a dedicated thread on colsy's forum or anything like that

WD

too much!!!.....i'll see you there tomorrow welshie if the aliens don't get us!!!

i had wanted to post a superman smilie but the closest i could come to him was these...