Cooper, Paul W.

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Cooper, Paul W.

(Paul Cooper)

PERSONAL

Addresses: Agent—Preferred Artists, 16633 Ventura Blvd., Suite 1421, Encino, CA 91436. Contact—3669 Orange Ct., Simi Valley, CA 93063.

Career: Writer. Worked as a story editor, script consultant, and producer. Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, instructor of film and television writing; offered other writing instruction.

Member: Writers Guild of America West.

Awards, Honors: Spur Award, best television script, Western Writers of America, 1982, for "Establish Thou the Work of Our Hands," Father Murphy; Daytime Emmy Award (with others), outstanding children's special, 1985, for "All the Kids Do It," CBS Schoolbreak Special; Daytime Emmy Award (with others), outstanding children's special, 1986, for "The War between the Classes," CBS Schoolbreak Special; Humanitas Prize, children's live-action category, 1991, for "Abby, My Love," CBS Schoolbreak Special; Annual Black Film Festival Award, Movie Guide Award, Worldfest Award, Houston, TX, and Image Award nomination, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, all best picture, c. 1996, for Once upon a Time … When We Were Colored; Writers Guild of America Award, children's script, 2004, for The Maldonado Miracle; award for the video game Chess Wars; other Emmy awards and Emmy Award nominations; Humanitas Prize nominations; Epiphany Prize nomination.

CREDITS

Television Work:

Story editor, Brewster Place (series), ABC, 1990.

(With others) Executive producer, Night of the Wolf (movie), Animal Planet, 2002.

RECORDINGS

Video Games:

Director, Chess Wars, 1996.

WRITINGS

Teleplays; Miniseries:

The Secret of Lost Creek, broadcast on MMC (also known as The All New Mickey Mouse Club, Club MMC, and The Mickey Mouse Club), The Disney Channel, 1989.

Match Point, broadcast on MMC (also known as The All New Mickey Mouse Club, Club MMC, and The Mickey Mouse Club), The Disney Channel, 1989.

Teleplays; Movies:

Good Old Boy, The Disney Channel, 1988.

(As Paul Cooper) Night of the Wolf, Animal Planet, 2002.

The Maldonado Miracle (based on the novel by Theodore Taylor), Showtime, 2003.

Some sources cite Cooper as the author of other movies, including Heather and Most Valuable Player.

Teleplays; Specials:

"She Drinks a Little" (also known as "First Step"), ABC Afterschool Specials, ABC, 1981.

"Tough Girl," ABC Afterschool Specials, ABC, 1981.

"Between Two Loves" (also known as "Between Two Loves for Jenny" and "Two Loves for Jenny"), ABC Afterschool Specials, ABC, 1982.

"Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy" (also known as "Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea?"), ABC Afterschool Specials, ABC, 1983.

"All the Kids Do It," CBS Schoolbreak Special, CBS, 1984.

"The War between the Classes," CBS Schoolbreak Special, CBS, 1985.

"Soldier Boys," CBS Schoolbreak Special, CBS, 1987.

"Gangs," CBS Schoolbreak Special, CBS, 1988.

"A Matter of Conscience" (also known as "Schoolbreak Special: A Matter of Conscience"), CBS Schoolbreak Special, CBS, 1989.

"Flour Babies," CBS Schoolbreak Special, CBS, 1990.

"Abby, My Love," CBS Schoolbreak Special, CBS, 1991.

Teleplays; Episodic:

The Waltons, CBS, episodes beginning c. 1972.

Little House on the Prairie (also known as Little House: A New Beginning), NBC, multiple episodes in both 1976 and 1982.

"Blood Brothers," The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, NBC, 1977.

The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, NBC, other episodes beginning c. 1977.

"Call Me Lucky/Torch Singer," Fantasy Island, ABC, 1978.

Hart to Hart, ABC, multiple episodes, beginning c. 1979.

Here's Boomer, NBC, episodes beginning c. 1980.

The Littlest Hobo, syndicated, episodes beginning c. 1980.

(As Paul Cooper) Father Murphy, NBC, episodes beginning c. 1981.

Tales of the Gold Monkey, ABC, episodes beginning c. 1982.

Boone, NBC, episodes beginning c. 1983.

"Death Takes a Curtain Call," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1984.

Highway to Heaven, NBC, episodes from 1984 to 1989.

(Story) "Murder in the Afternoon," Murder, She Wrote, CBS, 1985.

Morning star/Eveningstar, CBS, c. 1986.

Brewster Place, ABC, 1990.

Some sources cite Cooper as the author of episodes of other series, including The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (also known as The Adventures of Shirley Holmes, Detective), YTV.