Directing

John Cooper

Born — Died

1927-01-01 — 2017-01-01

Place of birth

Edale, Derbyshire, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

9 titles

John Cooper (1927 — 2017) was an English television producer and director, known for Thriller (1973), The Paper Lads (1977), and ITV Sunday Night Drama (1959).

Known for

Behind the camera

A Killer with Two Faces poster
7.0

A crazed killer escapes from an asylum and assumes the identity of his twin brother, a famous and respected architect.

A Killer with Two Faces

1974

A Killer in Every Corner poster
8.0

A criminal psychologist invites three psychology students to his English countryside home to view some of his research on the criminal mind. Unbeknownst to the students, they are actually guinea pigs in a mind-control experiment he is conducting and the servants of the house are not what they appear to be.

A Killer in Every Corner

1974

Where the Action Is poster
8.0

A gambler is smuggled into a billionaire's house to undertake a gambling duel.

Where the Action Is

1975

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about big game fishing in New Zealand.

The Bait

1977

Night Is the Time for Killing poster
6.0

Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson

Night Is the Time for Killing

1975

Night Is the Time for Killing poster
6.0

Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson

Night Is the Time for Killing

1975

Screamer poster
7.2

A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ordeal, she is released into the care of her friends. The police assure her that they have the man responsible in custody, and she begins to rest easy. That is until she sees her attacker wandering the streets of the town. After planning her revenge she follows the man and kills him. This, she thinks, is the end of her ordeal. That is until the man she thinks she has killed arrives at the house she is staying in.

Screamer

1974

Murrain poster
7.5

When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it is caused by a curse from a woman they believe to be a witch.

Murrain

1975

Possession poster
7.8

With the exception of the poor central heating system, Ray and Penny Burns' newly-purchased country house seems ideal. While repairing the pipes, a handyman digs up the cellar and uncovers the body of the home's previous owner who was murdered twenty years earlier. A séance held in the home reveals something very disturbing.

Possession

1973