Gary Cooper
Acting
- Born:
- 1901-05-07
- Died:
- 1961-05-13
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
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Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Bright Leaves
Complicated Women
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Citizen Cohn
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie Tough Guys
Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend
American Experience
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Showbiz Goes to War
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Hollywood
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Songs for After a War
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Lykke og krone
The Naked Edge
Project XX: The Real West
The 10 from Texas
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
They Came to Cordura
Alias Jesse James
The Hanging Tree
Man of the West
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Ten North Frederick
Love in the Afternoon
Friendly Persuasion
Cinépanorama
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Vera Cruz
Garden of Evil
Boom on Paris
Blowing Wild
Return to Paradise
The Oscars
Springfield Rifle
High Noon
Distant Drums
Starlift
It's a Big Country
You're in the Navy Now
Dallas
The Jack Benny Program
Bright Leaf
What's My Line?
Breakdowns of 1949
Snow Carnival
Task Force
It's a Great Feeling
The Fountainhead
Good Sam
The Ed Sullivan Show
Unconquered
Variety Girl
Cloak and Dagger
The Army Nurse
Saratoga Trunk
Along Came Jones
Breakdowns of 1944
Casanova Brown
Memo for Joe
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Golden Globe Awards
The Voice That Thrilled the World
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Pride of the Yankees
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3
Ball of Fire
Breakdowns of 1941
Sergeant York
Meet John Doe
North West Mounted Police
The Westerner
The Real Glory
Beau Geste
The Cowboy and the Lady
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Souls at Sea
Lest We Forget
The General Died at Dawn
The Plainsman
Hollywood Boulevard
Desire
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Peter Ibbetson
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
The Wedding Night
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
The Hollywood Gad-About
Now and Forever
Operator 13
Design for Living
Alice in Wonderland
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
One Sunday Afternoon
Today We Live
A Farewell to Arms
If I Had a Million
Devil and the Deep
Make Me a Star
Hollywood on Parade
His Woman
I Take This Woman
City Streets
The Stolen Jools
Fighting Caravans
Morocco
The Spoilers
A Man from Wyoming
The Texan
Paramount on Parade
Only the Brave
Seven Days Leave
The Virginian
Betrayal
Wolf Song
The Shopworn Angel
Lilac Time
The First Kiss
Half a Bride
The Legion of the Condemned
Doomsday
Beau Sabreur
Wings
Nevada
The Last Outlaw
Children of Divorce
Arizona Bound
It
Bad Man's Bluff
Old Ironsides
Lightnin' Flashes
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Lightnin' Wins
Watch Your Wife
A Six Shootin' Romance
The Johnstown Flood
Three Pals
North Star
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Tricks
The Eagle
The Vanishing American
Wild Horse Mesa
The Lucky Horseshoe
The Drug Store Cowboy
Riders of the Purple Sage
The Thundering Herd
The Trail Rider
Dick Turpin
Warrior Gap