Actor Jackie Cooper, 88, RIP

Actor Jackie Cooper admires photos from his 1931 film “Skippy” prior to a screening of the film at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif., in this June 2004 AP file photo. The film was featured as part of the Academy’s “Great To Be Nominated” screening series. Cooper, the child movie star who won a best actor Oscar nomination at 9 for “Skippy” and grew up to play The Daily Planet editor in as Christopher Reeves’ four “Superman” movies, died Tuesday, May 3, 2011, from an undisclosed illness at a Los Angeles hospital, said his agent Ronnie Leif. He was 88. (AP Photo/Todd Wawrychuk, file)