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I suspect it probably is Toby, in a really mangled screen accent. I'm Welsh and a long-time collector of Welsh names, and I've never come across any name sounding like coo-pee, which as Llewella said would be 'cwpi' in Welsh. I looked it up too, and found nothing useful. Obviously without having seen and heard the film I can't be sure, but 1940s screen representations of British regional accents are not known for their accuracy.

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The book by Humphrey Slater that the screenplay for the film was based on is available on Amazon (although outrageously overpriced), so it's probably possible to order it via a library and find out what the character's name was meant to be.