Casino Royale is a 1967 Columbia film. Some of the links below are affiliate links meaning, at no additional cost to you, Fandom will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. Casino Royale is the twenty-first film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It served as a series reboot, resetting its continuity to the start of Bond's career as a 00 and was the first to feature Daniel Craig as 007. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and adapted for the screen by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis. Based on the 1953 novel Casino Royale by Ian.

in Casino Royale (1967)
Born	5 July 1933
Died	16 September 1997 (aged 64) Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Other names	Terrance Cooper Terrence Cooper
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1955–1997

Terence Cooper (5 July 1933 – 16 September 1997) was a British film actor, best known for his roles in Australian and New Zealand television and film.

Biography[edit]

Born in 1933 at Carnmoney, a district of the modern-day borough of Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland, he became a stage actor and appeared in ITC British television series such as The Buccaneers and The Adventures of William Tell.

Cooper is most famous for appearing in the 1967 film, Casino Royale, a James Bondsatire based on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel of the same name. Producer Charles K. Feldman kept him on a contract for two years before the film was made.^[1] He also claimed to be a candidate for the role of Bond in a Kevin McClory version of the movie series that predated Eon Productions series.

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In New Zealand he starred in many New Zealand TV series such as Hunter's Gold (1977), an episode of Ngaio Marsh Theatre (1977), Gather Your Dreams (1978), Children of Fire Mountain (1979), Jack Holborn (1982) and Mortimer's Patch (1982). He played the part of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's bombastic character 'Professor George Edward Challenger' in a 1982 New Zealand radio dramatization of Doyle's novel 'The Lost World' (produced by Peggy Wells and Barry Campbell).

In Australia, he appeared in guest roles in local drama series including Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, and Rafferty's Rules, with a regular role as Inspector Leo Vincetti in Bony (1992).

He was also famed as a water color artist. He retired in Far North Queensland, Australia where he painted a collection of water colors depicting Australian tropical rain forests and birdlife.

Perhaps one of Cooper's lesser known achievements was his 1982 publication, Trouper Cooper's Curry Cookbook (William Collins Publishers, Auckland 1982). At the time, Cooper ran a successful Curry restaurant in Auckland, New Zealand, Trouper Cooper's Curry House. He also wrote The Parnell Cookbook,

Partial filmography[edit]

The Square Peg (1958) - Paratrooper (uncredited)
Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955) - Gentleman
Top Floor Girl (1959) - (uncredited)
No Safety Ahead (1959) - (uncredited)
Calculated Risk (1964) - Nodge
Man in the Middle (1964) - Maj. Clement
Walk a Tightrope (1964) - Jason Shepperd
Casino Royale (1967) - Cooper (James Bond 007)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980) - Paul Temin
Jack Holborn (1982) - Morris
Trespasses (1984) - Doug Mortimer
Heart of the Stag (1984) - Robert Jackson
Pallet on the Floor (1984) - Brendon O'Keefe
Should I Be Good? (1985) - Frank Lauber
Syliva (1985) - Inspector Bletcher
Kingpin (1985) - Dave Adams
Hot Target (1985) - Carmichael
Lie of the Land (1985) - Clifford
Hot Pursuit (1987) - Captain Andrew
No Way Out (1987) - N.Z. Ambassador
Defense Play (1988) - Professor Vandemeer
The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) - Sir Ian Hobart
The Grasscutter (1990) - Jack Macready
Old Scores (1991) - Eric Hogg
Fatal Past (1994) - David Preston
Hell's Belles (1995) - (final film role)

Notes[edit]

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^https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/8345119/Casino-Royale-discovering-the-lost-script.html

External links[edit]

Terence Cooper on IMDb

Casino Royale Movie Wiki

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