Joan Cooper

For other people named Joan Cooper, see Joan Cooper (disambiguation).

Joan Cooper (23 August 1922 – 1 July 1989)^[1] was a British actress.

Joan Cooper
Born	(1922-08-23)23 August 1922 Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
Died	1 July 1989(1989-07-01) (aged 66) Hayfield, Derbyshire, England
Spouses	Richard Gatehouse ​ ​ (m. 1941; div. 1947)​ Arthur Lowe ​ ​ (m. 1948; died 1982)​
Children	3

Her second husband was the actor Arthur Lowe whom she met at the Manchester Repertory Theatre in 1946. They were married at the Register Office, Strand, London, in January 1948.^[2] She had three children – Jane Gatehouse and David Gatehouse (children from a previous marriage) and Stephen Lowe (born 1953 at Hammersmith, London, UK).

She had some minor roles alongside him, particularly playing Private Godfrey's sister Dolly in some episodes of Dad's Army. In 1977–78 she also toured with Lowe in theatres around the UK as Dorothy Redfern in J. B. Priestley's Laburnum Grove.

Lowe died in April 1982, and five years later Cooper moved to his parents' cottage in Hayfield, Derbyshire, which had been vacant since his mother's death in 1981.^[3] She lived there until her death from stomach cancer at the age of 66.^[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	It All Goes to Show	(unnamed)	short
1970	Rookery Nook	Gertrude Twine	TV movie
1972	The Ruling Class	Nurse Brice
1976	The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones	Nellie
1980	Sweet William	Aunt Bee

References

1. IMDb gives her date of birth as 27 May 1922, and also Birmingham as her birthplace.
2. "Arthur Lowe". Dad's Army - An Appreciation. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
3. Lord, Graham (2002). Arthur Lowe. London: Orion 18. pp. 285–287. ISBN 9780752841847.

External links

• Joan Cooper at IMDb