• Source: Merian C. Cooper

Merian Caldwell Cooper (24 Oktober 1893 – 21 April 1973) adalah seorang penerbang Amerika, perwira Angkatan Udara Amerika Serikat dan Angkatan Udara Polandia, petualang, penulis latar, sutradara film dan produser. Film paling terkenalnya adalah film 1933 King Kong.




Biografi






= Kehidupan awal

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Merian Caldwell Cooper lahir dari pasangan John C. Cooper, orang Amerika keturunan Inggris, dan mantan istrinya Mary Caldwell, di Jacksonville, Florida. Ia dididik di Sekolah Lawrenceville di New Jersey dan masuk Akademi Angkatan Laut AS pada 1912 namun mengundurkan diri pada 1915 (tahun senior-nya)




= Kehidupan selanjutnya

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Cooper meninggal karena kanker di San Diego.




= Kehidupan pribadi

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Cooper adalah ayah dari penerjemah dan penulis Polandia Maciej Słomczyński. Ia menikah dengan aktris film Dorothy Jordan.




Karier film






= Sebagian filmografi

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Catatan






Referensi


Cooper, Merian C. (February 1928). "The Warfare of the Jungle Folk: Campaigning Against Tigers, Elephants, and Other Wild Animals in Northern Siam". National Geographic: 233–68.
Cisek, Janusz (2002). Kosciuszko, We Are Here!. McFarland. ISBN 9780786412402. OCLC 49871871.
I'm King Kong!—The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper (2005), TCM documentary on Cooper, directed by Kevin Brownlow.
Cotta Vaz, Mark (2005). Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong. Peter Jackson (introduction). Villard. ISBN 9781400062768. OCLC 56895256. This Cotta Vaz' biography was reviewed in The New York Times; see Smith, Dinitia (13 Agustus 2005). "Getting That Monkey Off His Creator's Back". The New York Times.




Pranala luar



Merian C. Cooper di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
Family Tree
Inventory of the Merian C. Cooper papers di Arsip-Arsip Institusi Hoover di Universitas Stanford
Cooper`s polish-soviet war Diarsipkan 2007-10-12 di Wayback Machine.
mini-bio and pictures of Cooper as a teenager Diarsipkan 2009-02-01 di Wayback Machine. on JaxHistory.Com
(Inggris) Merian C. Cooper di Find a Grave

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