Cooper Huckabee
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Cooper Huckabee is an film and television actor.

Early life

Huckabee attended Davidson High School
Davidson High School (Mobile, Alabama)
W. P. Davidson High School is a four-year senior high school located in Mobile, Alabama. Its first class graduated in 1963. The school operates in the Mobile County Public School System...

 in Mobile, Alabama. At USM, he received an Athletic Administration Degree.

Acting career

Played Buzz, one of the leading roles, in The Funhouse
The Funhouse
The Funhouse is a 1981 horror film in which four teenagers are trapped in a dark ride and stalked by a deformed killer. The film was directed by Tobe Hooper, and the screenplay written by Larry Block...

.
Also played Marshall, John Travolta's buddy in Urban Cowboy
Urban Cowboy
Released as a 2× vinyl record album, re-released on CD in 1995.Side A:#Hello Texas – Jimmy Buffett #All Night Long – Joe Walsh #Times Like These – Dan Fogelberg #Nine Tonight – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band...

.
He also played Henry T. Harrison, the spy, in Gettysburg.
He's also had several guest apparences on various TV series, including ER
ER (TV series)
ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

 and The Shield
The Shield
The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...

. Huckabee also turned in a memorable performance as Euple Byrd, the first husband of country music legend Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette
Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....

 in the made for TV movie Stand By Your Man.
Recently Huckabee appeared in The Killers video for Dustland Fairytale. Huckabee has a recurring role in the TV series True Blood
True Blood
True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...

 and portrays Joe Lee Mickens.

Filmography

  • Foul Play
    Foul Play
    Foul Play is a 1978 American comic mystery/thriller film written and directed by Colin Higgins. In it, a recently divorced librarian is drawn into a mystery when a stranger hides a roll of film in a pack of cigarettes and gives it to her for safekeeping....

     (1978)
  • Joni
    Joni
    Joni may refer to:*Joni , an autobiography by Joni Eareckson Tada*Joni , a film based on the book*Cyclone Joni, a tropical cyclone named JoniPeople with the given name Joni:...

     (1980)
  • Urban Cowboy
    Urban Cowboy
    Released as a 2× vinyl record album, re-released on CD in 1995.Side A:#Hello Texas – Jimmy Buffett #All Night Long – Joe Walsh #Times Like These – Dan Fogelberg #Nine Tonight – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band...

     (1980)
  • The Funhouse
    The Funhouse
    The Funhouse is a 1981 horror film in which four teenagers are trapped in a dark ride and stalked by a deformed killer. The film was directed by Tobe Hooper, and the screenplay written by Larry Block...

     (1981)
  • Stand By Your Man
    Stand By Your Man
    "Stand by Your Man" is a song co-written by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill and originally recorded by Tammy Wynette, released as a single in September 1968 in the USA...

     (1981)
  • The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper (1981)
  • The Blue and the Gray (TV miniseries) (played Matthew Geyser) (1982)
  • Country Gold
    Country Gold
    Released on March 11, 1997, Country Gold is a 10 track compilation CD featuring songs taken from the Nanci Griffith MCA albums Lone Star State of Mind, Little Love Affairs, One Fair Summer Evening and Storms.-Track listing:...

     (1982)
  • Little House: Look Back to Yesterday (1983)
  • Chase (1985)
  • Eye of the Tiger
    Eye of the Tiger (film)
    Eye of the Tiger is a 1986 action/drama film, starring Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Denise Galik, Seymour Cassel, William Smith and Judith Barsi. The movie was directed by Richard C...

     (1986)
  • The Curse
    The Curse (1987 film)
    The Curse is a 1987 horror film adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space directed by David Keith.-Plot:Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr...

     (1987)
  • Cohen and Tate
    Cohen and Tate
    Cohen and Tate is a 1989 American thriller film, also known as Cohen & Tate, starring Roy Scheider and Adam Baldwin, and written and directed by Eric Red, the writer of The Hitcher and Near Dark, in his directorial debut.- Plot :...

     (1989)
  • Night Eyes
    Night Eyes
    Night Eyes is a 1990 erotic thriller film written by Tom Citrano and Andrew Stevens. It stars Andrew Stevens, Tanya Roberts, Cooper Huckabee, and Warwick Sims.-Synopsis:...

     (1990)
  • Love Field
    Love Field (film)
    Love Field is a 1992 American independent drama film written by Don Roos and directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Dennis Haysbert...

     (1992)
  • Gettysburg (1993)
  • Bad Girls
    Bad Girls (film)
    Bad Girls is a 1994 western film starring Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore. It was directed by Jonathan Kaplan from a screenplay by Ken Friedman and Yolande Turner.-Plot:...

     (1994)
  • Turbulence (1997)
  • The General's Daughter
    The General's Daughter
    The General's Daughter is a 1999 murder mystery film starring John Travolta. The plot concerns the mysterious death of the daughter of a prominent general. The movie is based on the novel by the same name written in 1992 by Nelson DeMille, and was directed by Simon West...

     (1999)
  • Space Cowboys
    Space Cowboys
    Space Cowboys is a 2000 science fiction film directed by Clint Eastwood. Eastwood also stars in the film alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older "ex-test pilots" who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite...

     (2000)
  • Gods and Generals
    Gods and Generals (film)
    Gods and Generals is a 2003 American film based on the novel Gods and Generals by Jeffrey Shaara. It depicts events that take place prior to those shown in the 1993 film Gettysburg, which was based on The Killer Angels, a novel by Shaara's father, Michael...

    (2003)
  • Staunton Hill (2009)
  • True Blood (2010)

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