13 Facts About Pat Cooper

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Pat Cooper was born on Pasquale Caputo; July 31,1929 and is an American actor and comedian.

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Pat Cooper's father Michael Caputo was a bricklayer from Mola di Bari, Italy and his mother, Louise Gargiulo was born in Brooklyn, New York, where Cooper was born and raised.

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Pat Cooper started performing in the 1950s, originally for primarily Italian-American audiences.

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Pat Cooper appeared on the same shows as Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Sergio Franchi, Sammy Davis Jr.

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Pat Cooper has performed at many celebrity roasts at the New York Friars Club which he played in an episode of Seinfeld titled "The Friar's Club" and was a frequent guest on many radio shows, most notably The Howard Stern Show, Imus in the Morning and Opie and Anthony.

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Pat Cooper had a legendary appearance on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow Coast To Coast show on March 6,1981, in which he decried "headliners" in the club circuit who often worked with comics as their second act.

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Pat Cooper played fictional mobster Salvatore Masiello in the film Analyze This and in the sequel Analyze That, as well as playing lawyer, John Bruno in the 2003 film This Thing of Ours.

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Pat Cooper was an occasional contributor to Colin Quinn's late-night show on Comedy Central, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.

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Pat Cooper has two biological children from his first marriage to Dolores Nola and one adopted daughter from his second marriage to singer Patti Prince.

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Pat Cooper has five grandchildren: two grandsons and three granddaughters.

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Pat Cooper was a theater producer and the daughter of Diane Decker, one of the original members of The Serendipity Singers.

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Pat Cooper is retired and is living in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Pat Cooper has publicly feuded with his children on his radio appearances and is estranged from all members of his adopted and biological families.