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His first non-Our Gang role was in 1931, when his uncle Norman Taurog hired him to star in Skippy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor (the youngest actor ever to receive the nomination).

The movie catapulted young Jackie into superstardom. Our Gang producer Hal Roach sold Jackie's contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in mid-1931, as he felt the youngster would have a better future in features. He began a long on-screen relationship with actor Wallace Beery in such films as The Champ ( 1931), The Bowery ( 1933), Treasure Island ( 1934), and O'Shaughnessy's Boy ( 1935Events January January 1 Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya January 7 World War II: Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppo).

Cooper had problems finding roles as he became an adolescent, and he served in World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough, so his career was at a nadir when he starred in two popular television series, The People's Choice and Hennesey . It was his television acting that convinced him that he could become a director, and he successfully moved behind the cameraA camera is a device used to take images (usually photographs), either singly or in sequence, with or without sound, such as with video cameras. The name is derived from camera obscura Latin for "dark chamber", an early mechanism for projecting images in, to become one of the busier television directors , for which he won Emmy AwardThe Emmy Awards are United States television production awards, similar to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment. There are two types of Emmy Awards, the Daytime Awards and the Primetime Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Scis.

Later in the 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends, he found renewed fame as Clark KentClark Kent is the secret "civilian" identity of the fictional character Superman. Clark graduated from the University of Metropolis (B. in Journalism, cum laude) sometime in the early to mid 1990s (in the current continuity), and promptly went to work for's editor, Perry White, in the SupermanMetropolis, his home, with the Daily Planet building in the background. Superman is a fictional character and superhero, created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, who first appeared in comic books in 1938, and eventually became the most popular comic book feature film series starring Christopher Reeve.

His autobiography, Please Don't Shoot My Dog, was published in 1981. The title comes from Norman Taurog's threat to shoot young Jackie's dog if he couldn't cry in Skippy.

Cooper has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1501 Vine Street.