Joan Cooper

Who was Joan Cooper?

Joan Cooper was a British actress.

Her husband was the actor Arthur Lowe whom she met at the Manchester Repertory Theatre in 1946. They were married at Robert Adam Registry Office, the Strand, London, in January 1948. She had two children – David Gatehouse and Stephen Lowe.

She had some minor roles alongside him, particularly playing Private Godfrey's sister Dolly in some episodes of Dad's Army.

After Lowe's death in April 1982, she moved in 1987 to his parents' cottage in Hayfield, Derbyshire, a village in which Cooper died from stomach cancer on 1 July 1989, aged 66, having also suffered from alcoholism.