death_date death_place years_active birth_place other_names birth_date image article_title name occupation
16 september 1997 cairns , queensland , australia 1955 -- 1997 carnmoney , county antrim , northern ireland , uk terrance cooper terrence cooper 5 july 1933 terence cooper.gif terence cooper
 terence cooper actor
terence cooper

terence cooper -lrb- 5 july 1933 -- 16 september 1997 -rrb- was a british film actor , best known for his roles in australian and new zealand television and film .
born in 1933 at carnmoney , a district of the modern-day borough of newtownabbey in northern ireland , cooper is most famous for appearing in the 1967 film , `` casino royale '' , a james bond satire based on ian fleming 's first bond novel of the same name .
he was also at one point a candidate for the role of bond in the official movie series .
he was also famed as a water color artist .
he retired in far north queensland , australia where he painted a collection of water colors depicting australian tropical rain forests and birdlife .
perhaps one of cooper 's lesser known achievements was his 1982 publication , `` trouper cooper 's curry cookbook '' -lrb- william collins publishers , auckland 1982 -rrb- .
at the time , cooper ran a successful curry restaurant in auckland , new zealand , `` trouper cooper 's curry house '' .
he also wrote `` the parnell cookbook '' , and starred in many new zealand tv series such as `` hunter 's gold '' -lrb- 1977 -rrb- , `` gather your dreams '' -lrb- 1978 -rrb- , `` children of fire mountain '' -lrb- 1979 -rrb- , `` jack holborn '' -lrb- 1982 -rrb- and `` mortimer 's patch '' -lrb- 1982 -rrb- .
cooper played the part of sir arthur conan doyle 's bombastic character ` professor george edward challenger ' in a 1982 new zealand radio dramatization of doyle 's novel `` the lost world '' -lrb- produced by peggy wells and barry campbell -rrb- .
