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:
- 161
- 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 | 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 | Bright Leaves | 2004-04-28 | |
| Movie | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
| Movie | Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies | Self (archive footage) | 2001-10-07 |
| Movie | Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl | Self / Various Roles (archive footage) | 1999-06-14 |
| Movie | Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero | Self / Various Roles (archive footage) | 1998-03-17 |
| Movie | Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line | Self (archive footage) | 1997-05-12 |
| Movie | The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) | 1997-11-01 |
| Movie | Ingrid Bergman Remembered | Self (archive footage) | 1996-04-06 |
| Movie | Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult | Cop | 1994-03-18 |
| Movie | PCU | Self | 1994-04-29 |
| Movie | No Worries | Tim Rush | 1994-03-31 |
| 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 | Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC | Self (archive footage) | 1988-05-16 |
| Movie | Grace Kelly: The American Princess | Self (archive footage) | 1987-06-08 |
| Movie | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 |
| Movie | Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! | Self (archive footage) | 1982-01-01 |
| 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 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 | The Hanging Tree | Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail | 1959-02-19 |
| Movie | Alias Jesse James | Cowboy | 1959-03-20 |
| 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 |
| Series | Cinépanorama | 1956-02-04 | |
| Movie | Friendly Persuasion | Jess Birdwell | 1956-11-25 |
| Movie | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell | Col. Billy Mitchell | 1955-12-31 |
| Movie | Boom on Paris | Self | 1954-02-19 |
| Movie | Garden of Evil | Hooker | 1954-07-09 |
| Movie | Vera Cruz | Benjamin Trane | 1954-12-25 |
| 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 | Snow Carnival | Self - Narrator | 1949-12-17 |
| Movie | Task Force | Jonathan L. Scott | 1949-08-30 |
| 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 | Along Came Jones | Melody Jones | 1945-07-19 |
| Movie | Saratoga Trunk | Colonel Clint Maroon | 1945-11-21 |
| Movie | Memo for Joe | Self | 1944-08-10 |
| Movie | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Dr. Corydon M. Wassell | 1944-07-04 |
| Movie | Breakdowns of 1944 | Self | 1944-12-31 |
| Movie | Casanova Brown | Casanova (Cass) Brown | 1944-08-23 |
| 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 | Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 | Self | 1942-01-01 |
| Movie | The Pride of the Yankees | Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig | 1942-07-14 |
| Movie | Sergeant York | Alvin C. York | 1941-09-27 |
| Movie | Meet John Doe | Long John Willoughby | 1941-03-14 |
| 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 | The Adventures of Marco Polo | Marco Polo | 1938-04-07 |
| Movie | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife | Michael Brandon | 1938-03-25 |
| 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 General Died at Dawn | O'Hara | 1936-11-17 |
| Movie | Hollywood Boulevard | Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited) | 1936-08-20 |
| Movie | The Plainsman | Wild Bill Hickok | 1936-11-16 |
| 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 | Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1933-12-01 |
| Movie | Design for Living | George Curtis | 1933-12-29 |
| Movie | Alice in Wonderland | White Knight | 1933-12-18 |
| Movie | Hollywood on Parade | Self | 1932-06-05 |
| Movie | Devil and the Deep | Lt. Sempter | 1932-08-12 |
| Movie | Make Me a Star | Gary Cooper (uncredited) | 1932-07-01 |
| Movie | A Farewell to Arms | Lt. Frederic Henry | 1932-12-08 |
| Movie | If I Had a Million | Steve Gallagher | 1932-11-18 |
| Movie | Fighting Caravans | Clint Belmet | 1931-02-01 |
| Movie | City Streets | The Kid | 1931-04-18 |
| Movie | The Stolen Jools | Newspaper Editor | 1931-04-04 |
| Movie | His Woman | Captain Sam Whalan | 1931-11-20 |
| Movie | I Take This Woman | Tom McNair | 1931-06-26 |
| Movie | Paramount on Parade | Hunter (Dream Girl) | 1930-04-22 |
| Movie | Seven Days Leave | Kenneth Dowey | 1930-01-24 |
| Movie | The Texan | Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid | 1930-05-10 |
| Movie | Only the Brave | Capt. James Braydon | 1930-03-07 |
| Movie | Galas de la Paramount | Self (from original version) | 1930-07-31 |
| 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 | Half a Bride | Capt. Edmunds | 1928-06-16 |
| Movie | The Legion of the Condemned | Gale Price | 1928-03-10 |
| Movie | The Shopworn Angel | William Tyler | 1928-12-29 |
| Movie | Lilac Time | Capt. Philip Blythe | 1928-10-18 |
| Movie | The First Kiss | Mulligan Talbot | 1928-08-17 |
| Movie | Arizona Bound | Dave Saulter | 1927-04-09 |
| Movie | It | Newspaper Reporter (uncredited) | 1927-02-05 |
| Movie | Children of Divorce | Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee | 1927-04-25 |
| Movie | The Last Outlaw | Sheriff Buddy Hale | 1927-07-01 |
| Movie | Nevada | Nevada | 1927-08-01 |
| Movie | Wings | Cadet White | 1927-08-12 |
| Movie | The Johnstown Flood | Flood Survivor (uncredited) | 1926-02-28 |
| Movie | Three Pals | Car Driver Flirting with Betty | 1926-01-05 |
| Movie | A Six Shootin' Romance | (uncredited) | 1926-03-07 |
| Movie | Old Ironsides | Seaman (uncredited) | 1926-12-06 |
| Movie | Lightnin' Wins | Tom Harding | 1926-10-04 |
| Movie | Lightnin' Flashes | (uncredited) | 1926-11-01 |
| Movie | The Winning of Barbara Worth | Abe Lee | 1926-10-14 |
| Movie | Riders of the Purple Sage | Rider (uncredited) | 1925-03-15 |
| Movie | The Thundering Herd | Buffalo Hunter (uncredited) | 1925-03-01 |
| Movie | Dick Turpin | Crowd Extra (uncredited) | 1925-02-01 |
| Movie | Warrior Gap | Bit part | 1925-01-02 |
| Movie | The Drug Store Cowboy | Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited) | 1925-06-01 |
| Movie | The Trail Rider | Rider (uncredited) | 1925-02-22 |
| Movie | The Vanishing American | (uncredited) | 1925-10-15 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Roman Guard (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
| Movie | North Star | Townsman (uncredited) | 1925-12-27 |
| Movie | Tricks | Rider (uncredited) | 1925-11-16 |
| Movie | The Eagle | Masked Cossack (uncredited) | 1925-11-08 |
| Movie | Wild Horse Mesa | Cowboy | 1925-09-13 |
| Movie | The Lucky Horseshoe | Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited) | 1925-08-30 |