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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.
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 | Himself (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 | Himself (archive footage) | 1989-11-05 |
Movie | Grace Kelly: The American Princess | Self (archive footage) | 1987-06-08 |
Movie | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 |
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 | 1965-12-31 | |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | 1963-07-01 | |
Movie | The Naked Edge | George Radcliffe | 1961-06-28 |
Movie | The 10 from Texas | (archive footage) | 1961-01-01 |
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 | Memo for Joe | Self | 1944-08-10 |
Movie | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Dr. Corydon M. Wassell | 1944-07-04 |
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 | Ball of Fire | Professor Bertram Potts | 1941-12-02 |
Movie | Sergeant York | Alvin C. York | 1941-09-27 |
Movie | Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1941-11-14 |
Movie | The Westerner | Cole Harden | 1940-09-18 |
Movie | North West Mounted Police | Dusty Rivers | 1940-10-22 |
Movie | The Real Glory | Doctor Canavan | 1939-09-29 |
Movie | Beau Geste | Beau Geste | 1939-07-24 |
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 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Longfellow Deeds | 1936-04-09 |
Movie | Desire | Tom Bradley | 1936-04-11 |
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 | Now and Forever | Jerome 'Jerry' Day | 1934-08-31 |
Movie | Operator 13 | Captain Jack Gailliard | 1934-06-08 |
Movie | The Hollywood Gad-About | Himself (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 | City Streets | The Kid | 1931-04-18 |
Movie | Fighting Caravans | Clint Belmet | 1931-02-01 |
Movie | The Stolen Jools | Newspaper Editor | 1931-04-04 |
Movie | I Take This Woman | Tom McNair | 1931-06-26 |
Movie | His Woman | Captain Sam Whalan | 1931-11-20 |
Movie | The Texan | Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid | 1930-05-10 |
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 | A Man from Wyoming | Jim Baker | 1930-07-12 |
Movie | Galas de la Paramount | Self (from original version) | 1930-07-31 |
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 | Half a Bride | Capt. Edmunds | 1928-06-16 |
Movie | The First Kiss | Mulligan Talbot | 1928-08-17 |
Movie | The Shopworn Angel | William Tyler | 1928-12-29 |
Movie | Children of Divorce | Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee | 1927-04-25 |
Movie | It | Newspaper Reporter (uncredited) | 1927-02-05 |
Movie | Arizona Bound | Dave Saulter | 1927-04-09 |
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 | A Six Shootin' Romance | (uncredited) | 1926-03-07 |
Movie | Lightnin' Wins | Tom Harding | 1926-10-04 |
Movie | Lightnin' Flashes | (uncredited) | 1926-11-01 |
Movie | Old Ironsides | Seaman (uncredited) | 1926-12-06 |
Movie | The Winning of Barbara Worth | Abe Lee | 1926-10-14 |
Movie | The Drug Store Cowboy | Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited) | 1925-06-01 |
Movie | Riders of the Purple Sage | Rider (uncredited) | 1925-03-15 |
Movie | Warrior Gap | Bit part | 1925-01-02 |
Movie | The Lucky Horseshoe | Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited) | 1925-08-30 |
Movie | Dick Turpin | Crowd Extra (uncredited) | 1925-02-01 |
Movie | North Star | Bit part (uncredited) | 1925-12-27 |
Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Roman Guard (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
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 |