Gary Cooper
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 7, 1901
- Died
- May 13, 1961 (aged 60)
- Birthplace
- Helena, Montana, USA
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.
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Filmography
Sverige och kriget
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 5 eps
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bright Leaves
Movie · as (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Movie · as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Movie · as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Citizen Cohn
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Movie Tough Guys
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
American Experience
TV · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1 ep
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
Movie · as archive footage
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie · as (archive footage)
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie · as (archive footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
TV · as Self (archive footage, uncredited) · 1 ep
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Movie · as Beau Geste (archive footage)
Songs for After a War
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Lykke og krone
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Naked Edge
Movie · as George Radcliffe
Project XX: The Real West
Movie · as Self - Narrator
The 10 from Texas
Movie · as (archive footage)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Movie · as Self
The Hanging Tree
Movie · as Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail
Alias Jesse James
Movie · as Cowboy
They Came to Cordura
Movie · as Major Thomas Thorn
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Movie · as Gideon Patch
Man of the West
Movie · as Link Jones
Ten North Frederick
Movie · as Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Movie · as Self
Love in the Afternoon
Movie · as Frank Flannagan
Friendly Persuasion
Movie · as Jess Birdwell
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Movie · as Col. Billy Mitchell
Vera Cruz
Movie · as Benjamin Trane
Garden of Evil
Movie · as Hooker
Boom on Paris
Movie · as lui-même
Blowing Wild
Movie · as Jeff Dawson
Return to Paradise
Movie · as Mr. Morgan
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 4 eps
High Noon
Movie · as Marshal Will Kane
Springfield Rifle
Movie · as Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney
Distant Drums
Movie · as Capt. Quincy Wyatt
You're in the Navy Now
Movie · as Lt. John W. Harkness
It's a Big Country
Movie · as Texas
Starlift
Movie · as Gary Cooper
Bright Leaf
Movie · as Brant Royle
Dallas
Movie · as Blayde "Reb" Hollister
The Jack Benny Program
TV · as Gary Cooper · 1 ep
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Fountainhead
Movie · as Howard Roark
Task Force
Movie · as Jonathan L. Scott
It's a Great Feeling
Movie · as Gary Cooper (uncredited)
Snow Carnival
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Breakdowns of 1949
Movie · as Self
Good Sam
Movie · as Sam Clayton
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV · as Self · 3 eps
Unconquered
Movie · as Captain Christopher Holden
Variety Girl
Movie · as Gary Cooper
Cloak and Dagger
Movie · as Prof. Alvah Jesper
Saratoga Trunk
Movie · as Colonel Clint Maroon
Along Came Jones
Movie · as Melody Jones
The Army Nurse
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Casanova Brown
Movie · as Casanova (Cass) Brown
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Movie · as Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
Breakdowns of 1944
Movie · as Self
Memo for Joe
Movie · as Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter · 1 ep
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie · as Robert Jordan
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Movie · as Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
The Pride of the Yankees
Movie · as Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3
Movie · as Self
Meet John Doe
Movie · as Long John Willoughby
Ball of Fire
Movie · as Professor Bertram Potts
Sergeant York
Movie · as Alvin C. York
Breakdowns of 1941
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Westerner
Movie · as Cole Harden
North West Mounted Police
Movie · as Dusty Rivers
Beau Geste
Movie · as Beau Geste
The Real Glory
Movie · as Doctor Canavan
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Movie · as Michael Brandon
The Cowboy and the Lady
Movie · as Stretch Willoughby
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Movie · as Marco Polo
Souls at Sea
Movie · as Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor
Lest We Forget
Movie · as Himself
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Movie · as Longfellow Deeds
The Plainsman
Movie · as Wild Bill Hickok
Desire
Movie · as Tom Bradley
The General Died at Dawn
Movie · as O'Hara
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie · as Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited)
The Wedding Night
Movie · as Tony Barrett
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Movie · as Alan McGregor
Peter Ibbetson
Movie · as Peter Ibbetson
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Movie · as Self
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
Movie
The Hollywood Gad-About
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Now and Forever
Movie · as Jerome 'Jerry' Day
Operator 13
Movie · as Captain Jack Gailliard
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Movie · as Self
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · as White Knight
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Design for Living
Movie · as George Curtis
Today We Live
Movie · as Richard Bogard
One Sunday Afternoon
Movie · as Biff Grimes
A Farewell to Arms
Movie · as Lt. Frederic Henry
Make Me a Star
Movie · as Gary Cooper (uncredited)
Devil and the Deep
Movie · as Lt. Sempter
If I Had a Million
Movie · as Steve Gallagher
Hollywood on Parade
Movie · as Self
City Streets
Movie · as The Kid
Fighting Caravans
Movie · as Clint Belmet
His Woman
Movie · as Captain Sam Whalan
The Stolen Jools
Movie · as Newspaper Editor
I Take This Woman
Movie · as Tom McNair
Morocco
Movie · as Légionnaire Tom Brown
Only the Brave
Movie · as Capt. James Braydon
Seven Days Leave
Movie · as Kenneth Dowey
A Man from Wyoming
Movie · as Jim Baker
The Texan
Movie · as Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid
The Spoilers
Movie · as Roy Glenister
Paramount on Parade
Movie · as Hunter (Dream Girl)
The Virginian
Movie · as The Virginian
Wolf Song
Movie · as Sam Lash
Betrayal
Movie · as Andre Frey
Lilac Time
Movie · as Capt. Philip Blythe
Doomsday
Movie · as Arnold Furze
The Legion of the Condemned
Movie · as Gale Price
The Shopworn Angel
Movie · as William Tyler
Beau Sabreur
Movie · as Maj. Henri de Beaujolais
The First Kiss
Movie · as Mulligan Talbot
Half a Bride
Movie · as Capt. Edmunds
Wings
Movie · as Cadet White
It
Movie · as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
Nevada
Movie · as Nevada
Children of Divorce
Movie · as Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee
The Last Outlaw
Movie · as Sheriff Buddy Hale
Arizona Bound
Movie · as Dave Saulter
Lightnin' Flashes
Movie · as (uncredited)
A Six Shootin' Romance
Movie · as (uncredited)
Old Ironsides
Movie · as Seaman (uncredited)
The Johnstown Flood
Movie · as Flood Survivor (uncredited)
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Movie · as Abe Lee
Three Pals
Movie · as Car Driver Flirting with Betty
Lightnin' Wins
Movie · as Tom Harding
Bad Man's Bluff
Movie · as Cowboy (uncredited)
Watch Your Wife
Movie · as Bit part (uncredited)
Warrior Gap
Movie · as Bit part
The Thundering Herd
Movie · as Buffalo Hunter (uncredited)
Dick Turpin
Movie · as Crowd Extra (uncredited)
The Trail Rider
Movie · as Rider (uncredited)
The Drug Store Cowboy
Movie · as Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited)
The Eagle
Movie · as Masked Cossack (uncredited)
The Vanishing American
Movie · as (uncredited)
North Star
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)
Riders of the Purple Sage
Movie · as Rider (uncredited)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Movie · as Roman Guard (uncredited)
Tricks
Movie · as Rider (uncredited)
The Lucky Horseshoe
Movie · as Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited)
Wild Horse Mesa
Movie · as Cowboy