Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 7, 1901
Place of Birth:
Helena, Montana, USA
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Gary Cooper
Biography
Gary Cooper (May 7, 1901 - May 13, 1961) was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances. His career spanned thirty-six years, from 1925 to 1961, and included leading roles in eighty-four feature films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed strongly to both men and women, and his range of performances included roles in most major movie genres. Cooper's ability to project his own personality onto the characters he played contributed to his natural and authentic appearance on screen. Throughout his career, he sustained a screen persona that represented the ideal American hero.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Paris Hilton, Inc. | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Bright Leaves | (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies | Self (archive footage) |
| 1999 | Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl | Self / Various Roles (archive footage) |
| 1998 | Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero | Self / Various Roles (archive footage) |
| 1997 | Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line | Self (archive footage) |
| 1997 | The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) |
| 1992 | Citizen Cohn | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1991 | Movie Tough Guys | Self (archive footage) |
| 1991 | Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) |
| 1989 | Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC | Self (archive footage) |
| 1987 | Grace Kelly: The American Princess | Self (archive footage) |
| 1985 | Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers | Self (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) |
| 1982 | Showbiz Goes to War | (archive footage) |
| 1982 | Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! | Self (archive footage) |
| 1977 | The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Beau Geste (archive footage) |
| 1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) |
| 1973 | The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor | Self (archive footage) |
| 1961 | The Naked Edge | George Radcliffe |
| 1961 | The 10 from Texas | (archive footage) |
| 1960 | The Real West | Self |
| 1960 | Hedda Hopper's Hollywood | Self |
| 1959 | The Hanging Tree | Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail |
| 1959 | Alias Jesse James | Cowboy |
| 1959 | They Came to Cordura | Major Thomas Thorn |
| 1959 | The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Gideon Patch |
| 1958 | Man of the West | Link Jones |
| 1958 | Ten North Frederick | Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin |
| 1957 | Love in the Afternoon | Frank Flannagan |
| 1956 | Friendly Persuasion | Jess Birdwell |
| 1955 | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell | Col. Billy Mitchell |
| 1954 | Vera Cruz | Benjamin Trane |
| 1954 | Garden of Evil | Hooker |
| 1954 | Boom on Paris | Self |
| 1953 | Blowing Wild | Jeff Dawson |
| 1953 | Return to Paradise | Mr. Morgan |
| 1952 | High Noon | Marshal Will Kane |
| 1952 | Springfield Rifle | Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney |
| 1951 | Distant Drums | Capt. Quincy Wyatt |
| 1951 | You're in the Navy Now | Lt. John W. Harkness |
| 1951 | It's a Big Country | Texas |
| 1951 | Starlift | Gary Cooper |
| 1950 | Bright Leaf | Brant Royle |
| 1950 | Dallas | Blayde "Reb" Hollister |
| 1949 | The Fountainhead | Howard Roark |
| 1949 | Task Force | Jonathan L. Scott |
| 1949 | It's a Great Feeling | Gary Cooper (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Snow Carnival | Self - Narrator |
| 1949 | Breakdowns of 1949 | Self |
| 1948 | Good Sam | Sam Clayton |
| 1947 | Unconquered | Captain Christopher Holden |
| 1947 | Variety Girl | Gary Cooper |
| 1946 | Cloak and Dagger | Prof. Alvah Jesper |
| 1945 | Saratoga Trunk | Colonel Clint Maroon |
| 1945 | Along Came Jones | Melody Jones |
| 1945 | The Army Nurse | Self (archive footage) |
| 1944 | Casanova Brown | Casanova (Cass) Brown |
| 1944 | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Dr. Corydon M. Wassell |
| 1944 | Breakdowns of 1944 | Self |
| 1944 | Memo for Joe | Self |
| 1943 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Robert Jordan |
| 1943 | The Voice That Thrilled the World | Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage) |
| 1942 | The Pride of the Yankees | Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig |
| 1942 | Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 | Self |
| 1941 | Meet John Doe | Long John Willoughby |
| 1941 | Ball of Fire | Professor Bertram Potts |
| 1941 | Sergeant York | Alvin C. York |
| 1941 | Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1940 | The Westerner | Cole Harden |
| 1940 | North West Mounted Police | Dusty Rivers |
| 1939 | Beau Geste | Beau Geste |
| 1939 | The Real Glory | Doctor Canavan |
| 1938 | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife | Michael Brandon |
| 1938 | The Cowboy and the Lady | Stretch Willoughby |
| 1938 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | Marco Polo |
| 1937 | Souls at Sea | Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor |
| 1937 | Lest We Forget | Himself |
| 1936 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Longfellow Deeds |
| 1936 | The Plainsman | Wild Bill Hickok |
| 1936 | Desire | Tom Bradley |
| 1936 | The General Died at Dawn | O'Hara |
| 1936 | Hollywood Boulevard | Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited) |
| 1935 | The Wedding Night | Tony Barrett |
| 1935 | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Alan McGregor |
| 1935 | Peter Ibbetson | Peter Ibbetson |
| 1935 | La Fiesta de Santa Barbara | Self |
| 1935 | Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8 | |
| 1934 | The Hollywood Gad-About | Self (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Now and Forever | Jerome 'Jerry' Day |
| 1934 | Operator 13 | Captain Jack Gailliard |
| 1934 | Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove | Self |
| 1933 | Alice in Wonderland | White Knight |
| 1933 | Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Design for Living | George Curtis |
| 1933 | Today We Live | Richard Bogard |
| 1933 | One Sunday Afternoon | Biff Grimes |
| 1932 | A Farewell to Arms | Lt. Frederic Henry |
| 1932 | Make Me a Star | Gary Cooper (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Devil and the Deep | Lt. Sempter |
| 1932 | If I Had a Million | Steve Gallagher |
| 1932 | Hollywood on Parade | Self |
| 1931 | City Streets | The Kid |
| 1931 | Fighting Caravans | Clint Belmet |
| 1931 | His Woman | Captain Sam Whalan |
| 1931 | The Stolen Jools | Newspaper Editor |
| 1931 | I Take This Woman | Tom McNair |
| 1930 | Morocco | Légionnaire Tom Brown |
| 1930 | Only the Brave | Capt. James Braydon |
| 1930 | Seven Days Leave | Kenneth Dowey |
| 1930 | A Man from Wyoming | Jim Baker |
| 1930 | The Texan | Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid |
| 1930 | The Spoilers | Roy Glenister |
| 1930 | Paramount on Parade | Hunter (Dream Girl) |
| 1929 | The Virginian | The Virginian |
| 1929 | Wolf Song | Sam Lash |
| 1929 | Betrayal | Andre Frey |
| 1928 | Lilac Time | Capt. Philip Blythe |
| 1928 | Doomsday | Arnold Furze |
| 1928 | The Legion of the Condemned | Gale Price |
| 1928 | The Shopworn Angel | William Tyler |
| 1928 | Beau Sabreur | Maj. Henri de Beaujolais |
| 1928 | The First Kiss | Mulligan Talbot |
| 1928 | Half a Bride | Capt. Edmunds |
| 1927 | Wings | Cadet White |
| 1927 | It | Newspaper Reporter (uncredited) |
| 1927 | Nevada | Nevada |
| 1927 | Children of Divorce | Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee |
| 1927 | The Last Outlaw | Sheriff Buddy Hale |
| 1927 | Arizona Bound | Dave Saulter |
| 1926 | Lightnin' Flashes | (uncredited) |
| 1926 | A Six Shootin' Romance | (uncredited) |
| 1926 | Old Ironsides | Seaman (uncredited) |
| 1926 | The Johnstown Flood | Flood Survivor (uncredited) |
| 1926 | The Winning of Barbara Worth | Abe Lee |
| 1926 | Three Pals | Car Driver Flirting with Betty |
| 1926 | Lightnin' Wins | Tom Harding |
| 1925 | Warrior Gap | Bit part |
| 1925 | The Thundering Herd | Buffalo Hunter (uncredited) |
| 1925 | Dick Turpin | Crowd Extra (uncredited) |
| 1925 | The Trail Rider | Rider (uncredited) |
| 1925 | The Drug Store Cowboy | Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited) |
| 1925 | The Eagle | Masked Cossack (uncredited) |
| 1925 | The Vanishing American | (uncredited) |
| 1925 | North Star | Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1925 | Riders of the Purple Sage | Rider (uncredited) |
| 1925 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Roman Guard (uncredited) |
| 1925 | Tricks | Rider (uncredited) |
| 1925 | The Lucky Horseshoe | Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited) |
| 1925 | Wild Horse Mesa | Cowboy |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sweden and the War | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | American Experience | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1980 | Hollywood | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1950 | The Jack Benny Program | Self |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self - Mystery Guest |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter |