Jeanne Cooper Dies At Age 84

Jeanne_Cooper_1977RIP Jeanne Cooper. The “The Young and the Restless” soap actress died at age 84. She has won an Emmy for her role as Katherine Chancellor on the CBS soap opera. No cause of death was revealed.

Cooper began her career in the 1950s, appearing as a supporting player in films with stars like Maureen O’Hara, Glenn Ford, Tony Curtis, and Henry Fonda.[2] Her first film role was as Myra in the 1953 western film, The Redhead from Wyoming. She later appeared in small roles in The Man from the Alamo, Over-Exposed, 5 Steps to Danger, Rock All Night, House of Women, 13 West Street, The Intruder, Black Zoo, The Glory Guys, Tony Rome, The Boston Strangler and Kansas City Bomber.

Cooper made five guest appearances during the nine-year run CBS’s Perry Mason, beginning with the role of Laura Beaumont in the 1958 episode, “The Case of the Corresponding Corpse.” In the final season of the show, she made her fifth and final appearance as Miriam Fielding in the 1966 episode, “The Case of the Vanishing Victim.”

In 1962, Cooper earned her first Emmy nomination for her performance in Ben Casey. After a turn as a regular on NBC’s Bracken’s World. She also appeared in Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, Ironside (TV series), Touched by an Angel and many more series.

In 1965, Cooper appeared in the ABC network’s western television series, The Big Valley, as Elaine Baxter Jason, a mercantile store owner and an old friend of series character Victoria Barkley (Barbara Stanwyck). In another episode she appears as the money-hungry aunt of Heath (Lee Majors) . Her husband was portrayed in the episode by John Anderson, who years later became known as MacGyver’s grandfather, Harry Jackson.

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