Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper 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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- Born:
- May 7, 1901 In Helena, Montana, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 149
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Warrior Gap 1925-01-02
- Latest Project:
- Movie Ricky Burns vs. Michele Di Rocco 2016-05-28
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Ricky Burns vs. Michele Di Rocco | Self | 2016-05-28 |
| Movie | Sleepless Nights | Nick / Ghoul | 2016-02-06 |
| Movie | Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Self (archive footage) | 2015-08-18 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity | Self (archive footage) | 2009-11-29 |
| Movie | Flight of Fury | Cmdr. Bud Jackson | 2007-02-20 |
| Movie | Billy Wilder Speaks | 2006-06-22 | |
| Movie | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
| Movie | Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies | Self (archive footage) | 2001-10-07 |
| Movie | The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) | 1997-11-01 |
| Movie | Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) | 1996-04-06 |
| Movie | No Worries | Tim Rush | 1994-03-31 |
| Movie | Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult | Cop | 1994-03-18 |
| Movie | PCU | Self | 1994-04-29 |
| Movie | Citizen Cohn | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1992-08-22 |
| Movie | Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) | 1991-07-15 |
| Movie | Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend | Self (archive footage) | 1989-11-05 |
| Movie | Grace Kelly: The American Princess | Self (archive footage) | 1987-06-08 |
| Movie | The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Beau Geste (archive footage) | 1977-06-15 |
| Movie | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) | 1975-08-06 |
| Movie | The Love Goddesses | (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 |
| Movie | Hollywood My Home Town | Self (archive footage) | 1965-12-31 |
| Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
| Movie | The 10 from Texas | (archive footage) | 1961-01-01 |
| Movie | The Naked Edge | George Radcliffe | 1961-06-28 |
| Movie | Hedda Hopper's Hollywood | Self | 1960-01-10 |
| Movie | Alias Jesse James | Cowboy | 1959-03-20 |
| Movie | The Hanging Tree | Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail | 1959-02-19 |
| Movie | They Came to Cordura | Major Thomas Thorn | 1959-06-01 |
| Movie | The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Gideon Patch | 1959-11-17 |
| Movie | Ten North Frederick | Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin | 1958-05-22 |
| Movie | Man of the West | Link Jones | 1958-06-20 |
| Movie | Love in the Afternoon | Frank Flannagan | 1957-05-29 |
| Movie | Friendly Persuasion | Jess Birdwell | 1956-11-25 |
| Series | Cinépanorama | 1956-02-04 | |
| Movie | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell | Col. Billy Mitchell | 1955-12-31 |
| Movie | Boom on Paris | Self | 1954-02-19 |
| Movie | Vera Cruz | Benjamin Trane | 1954-12-25 |
| Movie | Garden of Evil | Hooker | 1954-07-09 |
| Movie | Return to Paradise | Mr. Morgan | 1953-07-19 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
| Movie | Blowing Wild | Jeff Dawson | 1953-10-07 |
| Movie | High Noon | Marshal Will Kane | 1952-06-09 |
| Movie | Springfield Rifle | Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney | 1952-10-22 |
| Movie | You're in the Navy Now | Lt. John W. Harkness | 1951-02-23 |
| Movie | It's a Big Country | Texas | 1951-11-20 |
| Movie | Distant Drums | Capt. Quincy Wyatt | 1951-12-25 |
| Movie | Starlift | Gary Cooper | 1951-12-14 |
| Movie | Bright Leaf | Brant Royle | 1950-06-16 |
| Movie | Dallas | Blayde Hollister | 1950-12-30 |
| Movie | The Fountainhead | Howard Roark | 1949-06-25 |
| Movie | It's a Great Feeling | Gary Cooper (uncredited) | 1949-08-01 |
| Movie | Breakdowns of 1949 | Self | 1949-12-31 |
| Movie | Task Force | Jonathan L. Scott | 1949-08-30 |
| Movie | Snow Carnival | Self - Narrator | 1949-12-17 |
| Series | The Ed Sullivan Show | Unknown | 1948-06-20 |
| Movie | Good Sam | Sam Clayton | 1948-09-01 |
| Movie | Variety Girl | Gary Cooper | 1947-08-29 |
| Movie | Unconquered | Captain Christopher Holden | 1947-10-10 |
| Movie | Cloak and Dagger | Prof. Alvah Jesper | 1946-09-28 |
| Movie | Saratoga Trunk | Colonel Clint Maroon | 1945-11-21 |
| Movie | Along Came Jones | Melody Jones | 1945-07-19 |
| Movie | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Dr. Corydon M. Wassell | 1944-07-04 |
| Movie | Memo for Joe | Self | 1944-08-10 |
| Movie | Casanova Brown | Casanova (Cass) Brown | 1944-08-23 |
| Movie | Breakdowns of 1944 | Self | 1944-12-31 |
| Movie | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Robert Jordan | 1943-07-12 |
| Movie | The Voice That Thrilled the World | Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage) | 1943-10-16 |
| Movie | The Pride of the Yankees | Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig | 1942-07-14 |
| Movie | Meet John Doe | Long John Willoughby | 1941-03-14 |
| Movie | Sergeant York | Alvin C. York | 1941-09-27 |
| Movie | Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1941-11-14 |
| Movie | Ball of Fire | Professor Bertram Potts | 1941-12-02 |
| Movie | The Westerner | Cole Harden | 1940-09-18 |
| Movie | North West Mounted Police | Dusty Rivers | 1940-10-22 |
| Movie | Beau Geste | Beau Geste | 1939-07-24 |
| Movie | The Real Glory | Doctor Canavan | 1939-09-29 |
| Movie | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife | Michael Brandon | 1938-03-25 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Marco Polo | Marco Polo | 1938-04-07 |
| Movie | The Cowboy and the Lady | Stretch Willoughby | 1938-11-17 |
| Movie | Souls at Sea | Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor | 1937-09-03 |
| Movie | Desire | Tom Bradley | 1936-04-11 |
| Movie | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Longfellow Deeds | 1936-04-09 |
| Movie | The Plainsman | Wild Bill Hickok | 1936-11-16 |
| Movie | Hollywood Boulevard | Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited) | 1936-08-20 |
| Movie | The General Died at Dawn | O'Hara | 1936-11-17 |
| Movie | The Wedding Night | Tony Barrett | 1935-03-08 |
| Movie | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Alan McGregor | 1935-01-11 |
| Movie | Peter Ibbetson | Peter Ibbetson | 1935-11-07 |
| Movie | La Fiesta de Santa Barbara | Self | 1935-12-07 |
| Movie | Operator 13 | Captain Jack Gailliard | 1934-06-08 |
| Movie | Now and Forever | Jerome 'Jerry' Day | 1934-08-31 |
| Movie | The Hollywood Gad-About | Self (uncredited) | 1934-10-04 |
| Movie | Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove | Self | 1934-12-01 |
| Movie | Today We Live | Richard Bogard | 1933-03-03 |
| Movie | One Sunday Afternoon | Biff Grimes | 1933-09-01 |
| Movie | Alice in Wonderland | White Knight | 1933-12-18 |
| Movie | Design for Living | George Curtis | 1933-12-29 |
| Movie | Hollywood on Parade | Self | 1932-06-05 |
| Movie | The Devil and the Deep | Lt. Sempter | 1932-08-12 |
| Movie | Make Me a Star | Gary Cooper (uncredited) | 1932-07-01 |
| Movie | If I Had a Million | Steve Gallagher | 1932-11-18 |
| Movie | A Farewell to Arms | Lt. Frederic Henry | 1932-12-08 |
| Movie | The Stolen Jools | Newspaper Editor | 1931-04-04 |
| Movie | Fighting Caravans | Clint Belmet | 1931-02-01 |
| Movie | City Streets | The Kid | 1931-04-18 |
| Movie | I Take This Woman | Tom McNair | 1931-06-26 |
| Movie | His Woman | Captain Sam Whalan | 1931-11-20 |
| Movie | Paramount on Parade | Hunter (Dream Girl) | 1930-04-22 |
| Movie | Seven Days Leave | Kenneth Dowey | 1930-01-24 |
| Movie | Only the Brave | Capt. James Braydon | 1930-03-07 |
| Movie | The Texan | Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid | 1930-05-10 |
| Movie | A Man from Wyoming | Jim Baker | 1930-07-12 |
| Movie | Morocco | Légionnaire Tom Brown | 1930-11-14 |
| Movie | The Spoilers | Roy Glenister | 1930-09-20 |
| Movie | Wolf Song | Sam Lash | 1929-03-29 |
| Movie | Betrayal | Andre Frey | 1929-05-11 |
| Movie | The Virginian | The Virginian | 1929-11-09 |
| Movie | Doomsday | Arnold Furze | 1928-02-19 |
| Movie | Beau Sabreur | Maj. Henri de Beaujolais | 1928-01-22 |
| Movie | The Legion of the Condemned | Gale Price | 1928-03-10 |
| Movie | Lilac Time | Capt. Philip Blythe | 1928-10-18 |
| Movie | The Shopworn Angel | William Tyler | 1928-12-29 |
| Movie | Half a Bride | Capt. Edmunds | 1928-06-16 |
| Movie | The First Kiss | Mulligan Talbot | 1928-08-17 |
| Movie | Arizona Bound | Dave Saulter | 1927-04-09 |
| Movie | Children of Divorce | Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee | 1927-04-25 |
| Movie | It | Newspaper Reporter (uncredited) | 1927-02-05 |
| Movie | The Last Outlaw | Sheriff Buddy Hale | 1927-07-01 |
| Movie | Wings | Cadet White | 1927-08-12 |
| Movie | Nevada | Nevada | 1927-08-01 |
| Movie | The Johnstown Flood | Flood Survivor (uncredited) | 1926-02-28 |
| Movie | Lightnin' Wins | Tom Harding | 1926-10-04 |
| Movie | A Six Shootin' Romance | (uncredited) | 1926-03-07 |
| Movie | The Winning of Barbara Worth | Abe Lee | 1926-10-14 |
| Movie | Lightnin' Flashes | (uncredited) | 1926-11-01 |
| Movie | Old Ironsides | Seaman (uncredited) | 1926-12-06 |
| Movie | The Thundering Herd | Buffalo Hunter (uncredited) | 1925-03-01 |
| Movie | Riders of the Purple Sage | Rider (uncredited) | 1925-03-15 |
| Movie | The Trail Rider | Rider (uncredited) | 1925-02-22 |
| Movie | Dick Turpin | Crowd Extra (uncredited) | 1925-02-01 |
| Movie | The Drug Store Cowboy | Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited) | 1925-06-01 |
| Movie | Warrior Gap | Bit part | 1925-01-02 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Roman Guard (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
| Movie | North Star | Townsman (uncredited) | 1925-12-27 |
| Movie | The Eagle | Masked Cossack (uncredited) | 1925-11-08 |
| Movie | The Vanishing American | (uncredited) | 1925-10-15 |
| Movie | Wild Horse Mesa | Cowboy | 1925-09-13 |
| Movie | The Lucky Horseshoe | Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited) | 1925-08-30 |