World War Sergeant Plays Same Role in Air Film
Melville Cooper felt quite at home In his role as the comic Cockney sergeant In “The Dawn Patrol,” the spectacular drama of British wartime aviation. Cooper was a member of the Royal Flying Corps for two years. He was shot down behind the German lines on March 18, 1918. and 6pent the remaining nine months of the war a prisoner In various German hospitals and prison camps. It was during the nine months he spent as a prisoner of war that Cooper got his start in the theatre. To amuse themselves the British prisoners staged plays in the prison camp almost every night. Cooper participated in many of them, and when he was finally released after the war he turned to the stage for a living. Before he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, Cooper was first lieutenant. Starred in “The Dawn Patrol” is Errol Flynn, and other important members of the cast are Basil Rathbone, David Niven, and Donald Crisp.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20892, 25 August 1939, Page 4
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