Known for movies
Short Info
Died | December 4, 2012, Monroe, Georgia, United States |
Spouse | Luther Cooper |
Besse Cooper was born on August 26, 1896, in Sullivan County, Tennessee. Her parents were farmers who died when she was young. She was raised by her grandparents and attended a local one-room schoolhouse. After eighth grade, she left school to help her family.
In 1916, she married Luther Cooper. The couple had four children. Luther died in 1934.
In 1940, she moved to Monroe, Georgia, to live with her daughter. She worked as a seamstress and later as a cook at a local restaurant.
In 1968, she married Richard Miller. The couple had no children.
Besse Cooper began working as a bookkeeper in her later years. In 1996, she was recognized as the oldest working woman in the United States.
She died on December 4, 2012, at the age of 116 years, 103 days.
General Info
Full Name | Besse Cooper |
Died | December 4, 2012, Monroe, Georgia, United States |
Profession | Teacher |
Education | East Tennessee State University |
Nationality | American |
Family
Spouse | Luther Cooper |
Children | Sidney Cooper, Nancy Cooper Morgan, Luther Cooper Jr., Angie Tharp |
Parents | Angie Berry Brown, Richard Brown |
Siblings | Richard E. Brown, John Ralph Brown, Edward King Brown, Mary Lee Brown, Thomas Cecil Brown, Urcel Brown |
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Movies
Sound Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Le grand silence | 1997 | Documentary short sound | |
Raymond Lévesque: D'amour et d'amertume | 1997 | Documentary sound | |
Le sort de l'Amérique | 1997 | Documentary sound | |
In the Animator's Eye: A Conjurer's Tales - Co Hoedeman | 1996 | Documentary sound | |
L'épopée | 1996 | Documentary sound | |
Le cri de la nuit | 1996 | sound recordist | |
Joyeux Calvaire | 1996 | sound | |
Love Me, Love Me Not | 1996 | sound mixer | |
L'aventure Biodôme | 1995 | TV Movie sound | |
The Acadian Connection | 1995 | sound | |
L'arche de verre | 1994 | Documentary sound | |
La fête des rois | 1994 | sound | |
Rêve aveugle | 1994 | sound | |
La vie d'un héros | 1994 | sound | |
Les amoureuses | 1993 | sound | |
Tous pour un, un pour tous | 1993 | sound | |
Cap Tourmente | 1993 | sound | |
Le sexe des étoiles | 1993 | sound | |
Creative Process: Norman McLaren | 1993 | Documentary sound | |
Pierre Lefèvre on Acting | 1992 | Short sound | |
État critique | 1992 | sound | |
La vie fantôme | 1992 | sound | |
Les quatre cavaliers de l'apocalypse | 1991 | sound | |
Hotel Chronicles | 1990 | sound | |
Le diable d'Amérique | 1990 | Documentary sound | |
Pour l'amour du stress | 1990 | Documentary sound | |
Ballade urbaine | 1989 | Documentary short sound | |
Ferron, Marcelle | 1989 | Documentary sound | |
Sous les draps, les étoiles | 1989 | sound | |
Without Work: Sidetracked | 1989 | Short sound | |
Without Work: The Drive Away | 1989 | Short sound | |
Un cirque en Amérique | 1989 | Documentary sound | |
Emergency | 1988 | Documentary short sound | |
La peau et les os | 1988 | Documentary sound | |
See No Evil | 1988 | Documentary sound | |
Shoot and Cry | 1988 | Documentary sound | |
The Myths of Mental Illness | 1988 | sound | |
Un soleil entre deux nuages | 1988 | Documentary sound | |
Alias Will James | 1988 | Documentary sound | |
Kalamazoo | 1988 | sound mixer | |
Comme deux gouttes d'eau | 1988 | Documentary sound | |
Le creux de la vague | 1987 | Short sound | |
Le deuxième souffle | 1987 | Short sound | |
Tocade | 1987 | Short sound | |
Jack Kerouac's Road: A Franco-American Odyssey | 1987 | Documentary sound | |
A Dog's Tale: A Mexican Parable | 1986 | Short sound | |
At the Wheel: On the Road | 1986 | Documentary sound | |
La bioéthique: une question de choix - L'homme à la traîne | 1986 | Short sound | |
School in the Bush | 1986 | Documentary short sound | |
The Decline of the American Empire | 1986 | sound | |
Anne Trister | 1986 | sound | |
Discussions in Bioethics: The Courage of One's Convictions | 1985 | Short sound | |
For Future Generations | 1985 | Documentary sound | |
Uncle T | 1985 | Short sound | |
The Cap | 1985 | TV Movie sound | |
Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks | 1985 | sound | |
Bayo | 1985 | location sound | |
La dame en couleurs | 1985 | sound | |
Empire, Inc. | 1985 | TV Mini-Series sound - 6 episodes | |
Zarico | 1984 | sound | |
A Good Tree | 1984 | Short sound | |
Real Inside | 1984 | Short location sound | |
The Painted Door | 1984 | Short sound | |
Mario | 1984 | sound | |
En scène | 1983 | Documentary sound | |
The Road to Total War | 1983 | Documentary sound | |
Léo Gervais, sculpteur | 1982 | sound | |
Beyond Forty | 1982 | sound | |
On est rendus devant le monde! | 1981 | Documentary sound | |
Gui Daò - On the Way: Some Chinese Women Told Us | 1981 | Documentary sound | |
A Québécois Rediscovered: Joseph Légaré 1795-1855 | 1980 | Documentary sound | |
Gui Daò - On the Way: A Station on the Yangzi | 1980 | Documentary sound | |
Gui Daò - On the Way: Round Trip to Beijing | 1980 | Documentary sound | |
The Inheritance | 1980 | Documentary sound | |
Cordélia | 1980 | sound | |
De grâce et d'embarras | 1980 | Documentary sound | |
La voiture des dimanches | 1980 | Documentary sound | |
Le canot à Renald à Thomas | 1980 | Documentary sound | |
La toile de lin | 1979 | Documentary short sound | |
Going the Distance | 1979 | Documentary sound | |
La fiction nucléaire | 1979 | Documentary sound | |
Les Borges | 1978 | Documentary sound | |
Les vrais perdants | 1978 | Documentary sound | |
The Battle of the Châteauguay | 1978 | Short sound | |
Mother of Many Children | 1977 | sound re-recordist | |
Sail Away | 1977 | Documentary short re-recording mixer | |
L'heure bleue | 1976 | Short sound | |
The Walls Come Tumbling Down | 1976 | Short documentary sound | |
Wintersong | 1976 | Short sound | |
Prison | 1975 | Short sound re-recordist | |
The Hecklers | 1975 | Documentary sound re-recordist | |
The Lady and the Owl | 1975 | Documentary short sound | |
Cold Journey | 1975 | sound | |
An Old Box | 1975 | Short sound recordist | |
My Friends Call Me Tony | 1975 | Short re-recording | |
Child, Part 3: Debbie and Robert: 12-24 Months | 1974 | Documentary short sound | |
Cree Hunters of Mistassini | 1974 | Documentary sound | |
Le grand voyage | 1974 | Short sound | |
Paow, Paow, t'es mort! | 1974 | Documentary short sound | |
Salvador Allende Gossens: un témoignage | 1974 | Short documentary sound | |
The Coldspring Project | 1974 | Documentary short sound | |
Claude Gauvreau: Poète | 1974 | Documentary sound | |
Our Land Is Our Life | 1974 | Documentary sound | |
À qui appartient ce gage? | 1973 | sound | |
Child, Part 1: Jamie, Ethan and Marlon: The First Two Months | 1973 | Documentary short sound | |
Community Action Theater on Tour | 1973 | Documentary short sound | |
Goodbye Sousa | 1973 | Documentary short sound | |
Kainai | 1973 | Documentary short sound | |
Station 10 | 1973 | Documentary location sound / re-recording | |
Where Do We Go from Here? | 1973 | Short documentary sound | |
Richesse des autres | 1973 | Documentary sound | |
Avant de juger l'Indien, chausse ses mocassins | 1972 | Short documentary sound | |
Bloodsugar | 1972 | Short sound | |
Concordia I | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Concordia II | 1972 | Short sound | |
Entretien avec Henri Lefebvre | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Griffintown | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
L'attitude néerlandaise | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
L'automobile | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Le labyrinthe | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Le sol urbain | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Les rives | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Les taudis | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Locataires et propriétaires | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Où va la ville? (1re partie) | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Où va la ville? (2e partie) | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Réhabilitation des habitations | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Rénovation urbaine | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Telecommunications: Behind the Scenes | 1972 | Documentary short sound | |
Yesterday - Today: The Netsilik Eskimo | 1971 | Documentary sound | |
VTR St-Jacques | 1969 | Documentary short sound |
Awards
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
---|---|---|---|---|
1993 | Genie | Genie Awards | Best Achievement in Overall Sound | Le sexe des étoiles (1993) |
1987 | Genie | Genie Awards | Best Overall Sound | Le déclin de l'empire américain (1986) |
1985 | Genie | Genie Awards | Best Achievement in Overall Sound | Mario (1984) |
Nominated Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
---|---|---|---|---|
1994 | Genie | Genie Awards | Best Achievement in Overall Sound | La vie d'un héros (1994) |
1991 | Genie | Genie Awards | Best Overall Sound | Moody Beach (1990) |
1986 | Gemini | Gemini Awards | Best Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series | Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks (1985) |
1986 | Genie | Genie Awards | Best Achievement in Sound Editing | La dame en couleurs (1985) |
Source: IMDb, Wikipedia