Gary Cooper
Born: 1901-05-07 in Helena, Montana, USA
Died: 1961-05-13
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2025
- Sverige och kriget as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Paris Hilton, Inc. as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Bright Leaves as (archive footage)
2003
- Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
1998
- Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
1997
- The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)
1996
- Ingrid Bergman Remembered as Self (archive footage)
1992
- Citizen Cohn as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1991
- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
- Movie Tough Guys as Self (archive footage)
1989
- Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend as Self (archive footage)
1988
- American Experience as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Grace Kelly: The American Princess as Self (archive footage)
1985
- Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1982
- Showbiz Goes to War as (archive footage)
- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
- Showbiz Ballyhoo as Self (archive footage)
1980
- Hollywood as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1977
- The Last Remake of Beau Geste as Beau Geste (archive footage)
1976
- Songs for After a War as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1975
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail ... (Thanks)
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor as Self (archive footage)
1961
- The Naked Edge as George Radcliffe
- The 10 from Texas as (archive footage)
- Project XX: The Real West as Self - Narrator
1960
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood as Self
1959
- The Hanging Tree as Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail
- They Came to Cordura as Major Thomas Thorn
- The Wreck of the Mary Deare as Gideon Patch
- Alias Jesse James as Cowboy
1958
- Man of the West as Link Jones
- Ten North Frederick as Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin
- The Western: A Lost TV Special as Self
1957
- Love in the Afternoon as Frank Flannagan
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Friendly Persuasion as Jess Birdwell
1955
- The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell as Col. Billy Mitchell
1954
- Vera Cruz as Benjamin Trane
- Garden of Evil as Hooker
- Boom on Paris as Self
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Return to Paradise as Mr. Morgan
- Blowing Wild as Jeff Dawson
1952
- High Noon as Marshal Will Kane
- Springfield Rifle as Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney
1951
- Distant Drums as Capt. Quincy Wyatt
- It's a Big Country as Texas
- You're in the Navy Now as Lt. John W. Harkness
- Starlift as Gary Cooper
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Jack Benny Program as Self
- Bright Leaf as Brant Royle
- Dallas as Blayde "Reb" Hollister
1949
- The Fountainhead as Howard Roark
- Task Force as Jonathan L. Scott
- Snow Carnival as Self - Narrator
- It's a Great Feeling as Gary Cooper (uncredited)
- Breakdowns of 1949 as Self
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Good Sam as Sam Clayton
1947
- Unconquered as Captain Christopher Holden
- Variety Girl as Gary Cooper
1946
- Cloak and Dagger as Prof. Alvah Jesper
1945
- Along Came Jones as Melody Jones
- Saratoga Trunk as Colonel Clint Maroon
- The Army Nurse as Self (archive footage)
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- Casanova Brown as Casanova (Cass) Brown
- Breakdowns of 1944 as Self
- The Story of Dr. Wassell as Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
- Memo for Joe as Self
1943
- For Whom the Bell Tolls as Robert Jordan
- The Voice That Thrilled the World as Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
1942
- The Pride of the Yankees as Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 as Self
1941
- Sergeant York as Alvin C. York
- Ball of Fire as Professor Bertram Potts
- Meet John Doe as Long John Willoughby
- Breakdowns of 1941 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1940
- The Westerner as Cole Harden
- North West Mounted Police as Dusty Rivers
1939
- Beau Geste as Beau Geste
- The Real Glory as Doctor Canavan
1938
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Stretch Willoughby
- Bluebeard's 8th Wife as Michael Brandon
- The Adventures of Marco Polo as Marco Polo
1937
- Souls at Sea as Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor
- Lest We Forget as Himself
1936
- Desire as Tom Bradley
- Hollywood Boulevard as Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited)
- The Plainsman as Wild Bill Hickok
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Longfellow Deeds
- The General Died at Dawn as O'Hara
1935
- Peter Ibbetson as Peter Ibbetson
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Alan McGregor
- La Fiesta de Santa Barbara as Self
- Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
- The Wedding Night as Tony Barrett
1934
- Operator 13 as Captain Jack Gailliard
- Now and Forever as Jerome 'Jerry' Day
- The Hollywood Gad-About as Self (uncredited)
- Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove as Self
1933
- Design for Living as George Curtis
- One Sunday Afternoon as Biff Grimes
- Today We Live as Richard Bogard
- Alice in Wonderland as White Knight
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1932
- A Farewell to Arms as Lt. Frederic Henry
- Make Me a Star as Gary Cooper (uncredited)
- If I Had a Million as Steve Gallagher
- Devil and the Deep as Lt. Sempter
- Hollywood on Parade as Self
1931
- City Streets as The Kid
- His Woman as Captain Sam Whalan
- Fighting Caravans as Clint Belmet
- I Take This Woman as Tom McNair
- The Stolen Jools as Newspaper Editor
1930
- The Texan as Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid
- The Spoilers as Roy Glenister
- Morocco as Légionnaire Tom Brown
- Seven Days Leave as Kenneth Dowey
- Paramount on Parade as Hunter (Dream Girl)
- Only the Brave as Capt. James Braydon
- A Man from Wyoming as Jim Baker
1929
- The Virginian as The Virginian
- Betrayal as Andre Frey
- Wolf Song as Sam Lash
1928
- Beau Sabreur as Maj. Henri de Beaujolais
- Doomsday as Arnold Furze
- Lilac Time as Capt. Philip Blythe
- The First Kiss as Mulligan Talbot
- The Legion of the Condemned as Gale Price
- The Shopworn Angel as William Tyler
- Half a Bride as Capt. Edmunds
1927
- It as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
- Wings as Cadet White
- Nevada as Nevada
- Children of Divorce as Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee
- The Last Outlaw as Sheriff Buddy Hale
- Arizona Bound as Dave Saulter
1926
- The Johnstown Flood as Flood Survivor (uncredited)
- The Winning of Barbara Worth as Abe Lee
- Bad Man's Bluff as Cowboy (uncredited)
- Old Ironsides as Seaman (uncredited)
- Lightnin' Flashes as (uncredited)
- Three Pals as Car Driver Flirting with Betty
- Lightnin' Wins as Tom Harding
- A Six Shootin' Romance as (uncredited)
1925
- Warrior Gap as Bit part
- North Star as Townsman (uncredited)
- Dick Turpin as Crowd Extra (uncredited)
- Riders of the Purple Sage as Rider (uncredited)
- The Thundering Herd as Buffalo Hunter (uncredited)
- Wild Horse Mesa as Cowboy
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Roman Guard (uncredited)
- The Lucky Horseshoe as Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited)
- The Vanishing American as (uncredited)
- The Eagle as Masked Cossack (uncredited)
- The Drug Store Cowboy as Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited)
- The Trail Rider as Rider (uncredited)
- Tricks as Rider (uncredited)