MUMBAI: Former child star, Jackie Cooper, who enjoyed renewed fame years later as the editor of Daily Planet, Perry White in the Christopher Reeve Superman film has expired. He was 88.

After a stint as a television executive during the 1960s and as a TV director in the 70s, Cooper won over a new generation of fans playing grizzled newspaperman Perry White in the 1978 film Superman and its three sequels.

He rose to fame as a prominent cast member of Hal Roach‘s Our Gang short comedy films, appearing in such notable releases as Teacher‘s Pet and Love Business.

He holds the record as the youngest actor to receive an Oscar nomination for his title role, at age 9, in Skippy, an adaptation of the comic strip about a lively youngster.

Later that year, he co-starred in The Champ as the innocent son of a washed-up boxer played by Wallace Beery.

He co-wrote his memoirs, ‘Please Don‘t Shoot My Dog‘ in 1981.