Gary Cooper

Known For: Acting
Born: May 7, 1901
Place of Birth: Helena, Montana, USA
Died: May 13, 1961

Gary Cooper

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.

Filmography

Sverige och kriget

2025 · Self (archive footage)

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn

2015 · Self (archive footage)

Bright Leaves

2004 · (archive footage)

Complicated Women

2003 · Self (archive footage)

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

2001 · Self (archive footage)

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

1999 · Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

1998 · Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

1997 · Self (archive footage)

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

1997 · Self (archive footage)

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

1996 · Self (archive footage)

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

1995 · Self (archive footage)

100 Years at the Movies

1994 · Self (archive footage)

Citizen Cohn

1992 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

1991 · Self (archive footage)

Movie Tough Guys

1991 · Self (archive footage)

Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend

1989 · Self (archive footage)

American Experience

1988 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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

1988 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

1987 · Self (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe

1986 · archive footage

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

1985 · Self (archive footage)

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984 · (archive footage)

Showbiz Goes to War

1982 · (archive footage)

Showbiz Ballyhoo

1982 · Self (archive footage)

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

1982 · Self (archive footage)

Hollywood

1980 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

1977 · Beau Geste (archive footage)

Songs for After a War

1976 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1975 · Self (archive footage)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1975 · Thanks

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

1973 · Self (archive footage)

Lykke og krone

1962

The Naked Edge

1961 · George Radcliffe

Project XX: The Real West

1961 · Self - Narrator

The 10 from Texas

1961 · (archive footage)

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

1960 · Self

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959 · Gideon Patch

They Came to Cordura

1959 · Major Thomas Thorn

Alias Jesse James

1959 · Cowboy

The Hanging Tree

1959 · Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail

Man of the West

1958 · Link Jones

The Western: A Lost TV Special

1958 · Self

Ten North Frederick

1958 · Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin

Love in the Afternoon

1957 · Frank Flannagan

Friendly Persuasion

1956 · Jess Birdwell

Cinépanorama

1956 · Self

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955 · Col. Billy Mitchell

Vera Cruz

1954 · Benjamin Trane

Garden of Evil

1954 · Hooker

Boom on Paris

1954 · lui-même

Blowing Wild

1953 · Jeff Dawson

Return to Paradise

1953 · Mr. Morgan

The Oscars

1953 · Self

Springfield Rifle

1952 · Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney

High Noon

1952 · Marshal Will Kane

Distant Drums

1951 · Capt. Quincy Wyatt

Starlift

1951 · Gary Cooper

It's a Big Country

1951 · Texas

You're in the Navy Now

1951 · Lt. John W. Harkness

Dallas

1950 · Blayde "Reb" Hollister

The Jack Benny Program

1950 · Gary Cooper

Bright Leaf

1950 · Brant Royle

What's My Line?

1950 · Self - Mystery Guest

Breakdowns of 1949

1949 · Self

Snow Carnival

1949 · Self - Narrator

Task Force

1949 · Jonathan L. Scott

It's a Great Feeling

1949 · Gary Cooper (uncredited)

The Fountainhead

1949 · Howard Roark

Good Sam

1948 · Sam Clayton

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948 · Self

Unconquered

1947 · Captain Christopher Holden

Variety Girl

1947 · Gary Cooper

Cloak and Dagger

1946 · Prof. Alvah Jesper

The Army Nurse

1945 · Self (archive footage)

Saratoga Trunk

1945 · Colonel Clint Maroon

Along Came Jones

1945 · Melody Jones, Producer

Breakdowns of 1944

1944 · Self

Casanova Brown

1944 · Casanova (Cass) Brown

Memo for Joe

1944 · Self

The Story of Dr. Wassell

1944 · Dr. Corydon M. Wassell

Golden Globe Awards

1944 · Self - Presenter

The Voice That Thrilled the World

1943 · Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943 · Robert Jordan

The Pride of the Yankees

1942 · Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3

1942 · Self

Ball of Fire

1941 · Professor Bertram Potts

Breakdowns of 1941

1941 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sergeant York

1941 · Alvin C. York

Meet John Doe

1941 · Long John Willoughby

North West Mounted Police

1940 · Dusty Rivers

The Westerner

1940 · Cole Harden

The Real Glory

1939 · Doctor Canavan

Beau Geste

1939 · Beau Geste

The Cowboy and the Lady

1938 · Stretch Willoughby

The Adventures of Marco Polo

1938 · Marco Polo

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

1938 · Michael Brandon

Souls at Sea

1937 · Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor

Lest We Forget

1937 · Himself

The General Died at Dawn

1936 · O'Hara

The Plainsman

1936 · Wild Bill Hickok

Hollywood Boulevard

1936 · Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited)

Desire

1936 · Tom Bradley

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936 · Longfellow Deeds

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

1935 · Self

Peter Ibbetson

1935 · Peter Ibbetson

Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8

Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8

1935

The Wedding Night

1935 · Tony Barrett

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935 · Alan McGregor

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove

1934 · Self

The Hollywood Gad-About

1934 · Self (uncredited)

Now and Forever

1934 · Jerome 'Jerry' Day

Operator 13

1934 · Captain Jack Gailliard

Design for Living

1933 · George Curtis

Alice in Wonderland

1933 · White Knight

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

1933 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

One Sunday Afternoon

1933 · Biff Grimes

Today We Live

1933 · Richard Bogard

A Farewell to Arms

1932 · Lt. Frederic Henry

If I Had a Million

1932 · Steve Gallagher

Devil and the Deep

1932 · Lt. Sempter

Make Me a Star

1932 · Gary Cooper (uncredited)

Hollywood on Parade

1932 · Self

His Woman

1931 · Captain Sam Whalan

I Take This Woman

1931 · Tom McNair

City Streets

1931 · The Kid

The Stolen Jools

1931 · Newspaper Editor

Fighting Caravans

1931 · Clint Belmet

Morocco

1930 · Légionnaire Tom Brown

The Spoilers

1930 · Roy Glenister

A Man from Wyoming

1930 · Jim Baker

The Texan

1930 · Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid

Paramount on Parade

1930 · Hunter (Dream Girl)

Only the Brave

1930 · Capt. James Braydon

Seven Days Leave

1930 · Kenneth Dowey

The Virginian

1929 · The Virginian

Betrayal

1929 · Andre Frey

Wolf Song

1929 · Sam Lash

The Shopworn Angel

1928 · William Tyler

Lilac Time

1928 · Capt. Philip Blythe

The First Kiss

1928 · Mulligan Talbot

Half a Bride

1928 · Capt. Edmunds

The Legion of the Condemned

1928 · Gale Price

Doomsday

1928 · Arnold Furze

Beau Sabreur

1928 · Maj. Henri de Beaujolais

Wings

1927 · Cadet White

Nevada

1927 · Nevada

The Last Outlaw

1927 · Sheriff Buddy Hale

Children of Divorce

1927 · Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee

Arizona Bound

1927 · Dave Saulter

It

1927 · Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)

Bad Man's Bluff

1926 · Cowboy (uncredited)

Old Ironsides

1926 · Seaman (uncredited)

Lightnin' Flashes

1926 · (uncredited)

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926 · Abe Lee

Lightnin' Wins

1926 · Tom Harding

Watch Your Wife

1926 · Bit part (uncredited)

A Six Shootin' Romance

1926 · (uncredited)

The Johnstown Flood

1926 · Flood Survivor (uncredited)

Three Pals

1926 · Car Driver Flirting with Betty

North Star

1925 · Townsman (uncredited)

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1925 · Roman Guard (uncredited)

Tricks

1925 · Rider (uncredited)

The Eagle

1925 · Masked Cossack (uncredited)

The Vanishing American

1925 · (uncredited)

Wild Horse Mesa

1925 · Cowboy

The Lucky Horseshoe

1925 · Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited)

The Drug Store Cowboy

1925 · Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited)

Riders of the Purple Sage

1925 · Rider (uncredited)

The Thundering Herd

1925 · Buffalo Hunter (uncredited)

The Trail Rider

1925 · Rider (uncredited)

Dick Turpin

1925 · Crowd Extra (uncredited)

Warrior Gap

1925 · Bit part

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