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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

Known for
Acting
Born
May 7, 1901
Died
May 13, 1961 (aged 60)
Place of birth
Helena, Montana, USA
Credits
171

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

MovieRated 7.7

High Noon

1952Movie

Marshal Will Kane

MovieRated 7.5

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936Movie

Longfellow Deeds

MovieRated 7.0

Love in the Afternoon

1957Movie

Frank Flannagan

MovieRated 7.2

Wings

1927Movie

Cadet White

MovieRated 7.3

Meet John Doe

1941Movie

Long John Willoughby

MovieRated 6.7

Vera Cruz

1954Movie

Benjamin Trane

Filmography

TVRated 5.0

Sverige och kriget

2025TV

Self (archive footage)

TVRated 8.0

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

2024TV

Self - Actor (archive footage)

MovieRated 9.0

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn

2015Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.0

Bright Leaves

2004Movie

(archive footage)

MovieRated 6.9

Complicated Women

2003Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 8.5

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

2001Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 8.2

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

1999Movie

Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.0

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

1998Movie

Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

MovieRated 5.3

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1997Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.7

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

1997Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.7

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

1996Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 8.0

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.3

Citizen Cohn

1992Movie

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.5

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

1991Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 10.0

Movie Tough Guys

1991Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 9.0

Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend

1989Movie

Self (archive footage)

TVRated 6.5

American Experience

1988TV

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.0

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC

1988Movie

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

MovieRated 7.0

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

1987Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 10.0

Marilyn Monroe

1986Movie

archive footage

MovieRated 2.0

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

1985Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 9.0

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984Movie

(archive footage)

MovieRated 10.0

Showbiz Goes to War

1982Movie

(archive footage)

Movie

Showbiz Ballyhoo

1982Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.0

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

1982Movie

Self (archive footage)

TVRated 8.4

Hollywood

1980TV

Self (archive footage, uncredited)

MovieRated 5.7

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

1977Movie

Beau Geste (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.8

Songs for After a War

1976Movie

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.3

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.5

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

1973Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 9.0

Lykke og krone

1962Movie

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.3

The Naked Edge

1961Movie

George Radcliffe

Movie

Project XX: The Real West

1961Movie

Self - Narrator

MovieRated 9.0

The 10 from Texas

1961Movie

(archive footage)

MovieRated 6.0

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

1960Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.3

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959Movie

Gideon Patch

MovieRated 6.6

They Came to Cordura

1959Movie

Major Thomas Thorn

MovieRated 6.1

Alias Jesse James

1959Movie

Cowboy

MovieRated 6.7

The Hanging Tree

1959Movie

Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail

MovieRated 6.6

Man of the West

1958Movie

Link Jones

Movie

The Western: A Lost TV Special

1958Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.1

Ten North Frederick

1958Movie

Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin

MovieRated 7.0

Love in the Afternoon

1957Movie

Frank Flannagan

MovieRated 6.6

Friendly Persuasion

1956Movie

Jess Birdwell

TVRated 8.7

Cinépanorama

1956TV

Self

MovieRated 6.8

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955Movie

Col. Billy Mitchell

MovieRated 6.7

Vera Cruz

1954Movie

Benjamin Trane

MovieRated 6.3

Garden of Evil

1954Movie

Hooker

MovieRated 5.7

Boom on Paris

1954Movie

lui-même

MovieRated 6.0

Blowing Wild

1953Movie

Jeff Dawson

MovieRated 5.9

Return to Paradise

1953Movie

Mr. Morgan

TVRated 7.1

The Oscars

1953TV

Self

MovieRated 6.4

Springfield Rifle

1952Movie

Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney

MovieRated 7.7

High Noon

1952Movie

Marshal Will Kane

MovieRated 6.3

Distant Drums

1951Movie

Capt. Quincy Wyatt

MovieRated 6.6

Starlift

1951Movie

Gary Cooper

MovieRated 5.9

It's a Big Country

1951Movie

Texas

MovieRated 5.5

You're in the Navy Now

1951Movie

Lt. John W. Harkness

MovieRated 6.4

Dallas

1950Movie

Blayde "Reb" Hollister

TVRated 7.8

The Jack Benny Program

1950TV

Gary Cooper

MovieRated 6.0

Bright Leaf

1950Movie

Brant Royle

TVRated 7.0

What's My Line?

1950TV

Self

MovieRated 6.0

Breakdowns of 1949

1949Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.0

Snow Carnival

1949Movie

Self - Narrator

MovieRated 6.9

Task Force

1949Movie

Jonathan L. Scott

MovieRated 5.9

It's a Great Feeling

1949Movie

Gary Cooper (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.8

The Fountainhead

1949Movie

Howard Roark

MovieRated 6.3

Good Sam

1948Movie

Sam Clayton

TVRated 6.8

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948TV

Self

MovieRated 6.5

Unconquered

1947Movie

Captain Christopher Holden

MovieRated 6.5

Variety Girl

1947Movie

Gary Cooper

MovieRated 6.5

Cloak and Dagger

1946Movie

Prof. Alvah Jesper

MovieRated 8.0

The Army Nurse

1945Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.1

Saratoga Trunk

1945Movie

Colonel Clint Maroon

MovieRated 5.8

Along Came Jones

1945Movie

Melody Jones

MovieRated 6.5

Breakdowns of 1944

1944Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.4

Casanova Brown

1944Movie

Casanova (Cass) Brown

MovieRated 8.0

Memo for Joe

1944Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.4

The Story of Dr. Wassell

1944Movie

Dr. Corydon M. Wassell

TVRated 7.0

Golden Globe Awards

1944TV

Self - Presenter

MovieRated 6.0

The Voice That Thrilled the World

1943Movie

Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.5

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943Movie

Robert Jordan

MovieRated 7.3

The Pride of the Yankees

1942Movie

Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig

MovieRated 10.0

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3

1942Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.4

Ball of Fire

1941Movie

Professor Bertram Potts

MovieRated 7.0

Breakdowns of 1941

1941Movie

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

MovieRated 7.2

Sergeant York

1941Movie

Alvin C. York

MovieRated 7.3

Meet John Doe

1941Movie

Long John Willoughby

MovieRated 6.4

North West Mounted Police

1940Movie

Dusty Rivers

MovieRated 7.1

The Westerner

1940Movie

Cole Harden

MovieRated 6.3

The Real Glory

1939Movie

Doctor Canavan

MovieRated 7.0

Beau Geste

1939Movie

Beau Geste

MovieRated 6.3

The Cowboy and the Lady

1938Movie

Stretch Willoughby

MovieRated 6.2

The Adventures of Marco Polo

1938Movie

Marco Polo

MovieRated 7.0

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

1938Movie

Michael Brandon

MovieRated 6.5

Souls at Sea

1937Movie

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor

MovieRated 7.0

Lest We Forget

1937Movie

Himself

MovieRated 6.5

The General Died at Dawn

1936Movie

O'Hara

MovieRated 6.5

The Plainsman

1936Movie

Wild Bill Hickok

MovieRated 4.5

Hollywood Boulevard

1936Movie

Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited)

MovieRated 7.0

Desire

1936Movie

Tom Bradley

MovieRated 7.5

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936Movie

Longfellow Deeds

MovieRated 6.1

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

1935Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.0

Peter Ibbetson

1935Movie

Peter Ibbetson

Movie

Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8

1935Movie

MovieRated 5.9

The Wedding Night

1935Movie

Tony Barrett

MovieRated 6.6

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935Movie

Alan McGregor

MovieRated 6.0

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove

1934Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.0

The Hollywood Gad-About

1934Movie

Self (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.8

Now and Forever

1934Movie

Jerome 'Jerry' Day

MovieRated 5.9

Operator 13

1934Movie

Captain Jack Gailliard

MovieRated 7.1

Design for Living

1933Movie

George Curtis

MovieRated 6.1

Alice in Wonderland

1933Movie

White Knight

Movie

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

1933Movie

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.6

One Sunday Afternoon

1933Movie

Biff Grimes

MovieRated 6.3

Today We Live

1933Movie

Richard Bogard

MovieRated 6.1

A Farewell to Arms

1932Movie

Lt. Frederic Henry

MovieRated 6.5

If I Had a Million

1932Movie

Steve Gallagher

MovieRated 5.1

Devil and the Deep

1932Movie

Lt. Sempter

MovieRated 6.4

Make Me a Star

1932Movie

Gary Cooper (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.5

Hollywood on Parade

1932Movie

Self

MovieRated 4.3

His Woman

1931Movie

Captain Sam Whalan

MovieRated 5.2

I Take This Woman

1931Movie

Tom McNair

MovieRated 6.3

City Streets

1931Movie

The Kid

MovieRated 5.6

The Stolen Jools

1931Movie

Newspaper Editor

MovieRated 5.0

Fighting Caravans

1931Movie

Clint Belmet

MovieRated 6.4

Morocco

1930Movie

Légionnaire Tom Brown

MovieRated 6.5

The Spoilers

1930Movie

Roy Glenister

MovieRated 8.0

A Man from Wyoming

1930Movie

Jim Baker

MovieRated 6.1

The Texan

1930Movie

Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid

MovieRated 5.9

Paramount on Parade

1930Movie

Hunter (Dream Girl)

MovieRated 7.0

Only the Brave

1930Movie

Capt. James Braydon

MovieRated 6.6

Seven Days Leave

1930Movie

Kenneth Dowey

MovieRated 5.9

The Virginian

1929Movie

The Virginian

MovieRated 9.0

Betrayal

1929Movie

Andre Frey

MovieRated 5.1

Wolf Song

1929Movie

Sam Lash

MovieRated 9.0

The Shopworn Angel

1928Movie

William Tyler

MovieRated 6.9

Lilac Time

1928Movie

Capt. Philip Blythe

MovieRated 9.0

The First Kiss

1928Movie

Mulligan Talbot

MovieRated 6.7

Half a Bride

1928Movie

Capt. Edmunds

MovieRated 10.0

The Legion of the Condemned

1928Movie

Gale Price

MovieRated 7.0

Doomsday

1928Movie

Arnold Furze

MovieRated 9.0

Beau Sabreur

1928Movie

Maj. Henri de Beaujolais

MovieRated 7.2

Wings

1927Movie

Cadet White

MovieRated 6.7

Nevada

1927Movie

Nevada

MovieRated 7.5

The Last Outlaw

1927Movie

Sheriff Buddy Hale

MovieRated 6.0

Children of Divorce

1927Movie

Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee

MovieRated 10.0

Arizona Bound

1927Movie

Dave Saulter

MovieRated 6.9

It

1927Movie

Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)

MovieRated 10.0

Bad Man's Bluff

1926Movie

Cowboy (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.4

Old Ironsides

1926Movie

Seaman (uncredited)

Movie

Lightnin' Flashes

1926Movie

(uncredited)

MovieRated 6.5

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926Movie

Abe Lee

Movie

Lightnin' Wins

1926Movie

Tom Harding

MovieRated 7.0

Watch Your Wife

1926Movie

Bit part (uncredited)

MovieRated 7.0

A Six Shootin' Romance

1926Movie

(uncredited)

MovieRated 7.0

The Johnstown Flood

1926Movie

Flood Survivor (uncredited)

MovieRated 7.0

Three Pals

1926Movie

Car Driver Flirting with Betty

MovieRated 7.5

North Star

1925Movie

Townsman (uncredited)

MovieRated 7.3

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1925Movie

Roman Guard (uncredited)

MovieRated 7.0

Tricks

1925Movie

Rider (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.4

The Eagle

1925Movie

Masked Cossack (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.6

The Vanishing American

1925Movie

(uncredited)

MovieRated 7.0

Wild Horse Mesa

1925Movie

Cowboy

MovieRated 8.0

The Lucky Horseshoe

1925Movie

Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited)

MovieRated 10.0

The Drug Store Cowboy

1925Movie

Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.1

Riders of the Purple Sage

1925Movie

Rider (uncredited)

MovieRated 9.0

The Thundering Herd

1925Movie

Buffalo Hunter (uncredited)

MovieRated 10.0

The Trail Rider

1925Movie

Rider (uncredited)

MovieRated 5.6

Dick Turpin

1925Movie

Crowd Extra (uncredited)

MovieRated 10.0

Warrior Gap

1925Movie

Bit part

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