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)
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
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self (archive footage)
- The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender 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)
1986
- Marilyn Monroe as archive footage
1985
- Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Going Hollywood: The '30s as (archive footage)
1982
- Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers! as Self (archive footage)
- Showbiz Goes to War as (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)
1962
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
- Alias Jesse James as Cowboy
- They Came to Cordura as Major Thomas Thorn
- The Wreck of the Mary Deare as Gideon Patch
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 lui-même
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
- Dallas as Blayde "Reb" Hollister
- Bright Leaf as Brant Royle
1949
- The Fountainhead as Howard Roark
- It's a Great Feeling as Gary Cooper (uncredited)
- Task Force as Jonathan L. Scott
- Breakdowns of 1949 as Self
- Snow Carnival as Self - Narrator
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
- Saratoga Trunk as Colonel Clint Maroon
- Along Came Jones as Melody Jones
- The Army Nurse as Self (archive footage)
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- The Story of Dr. Wassell as Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
- Casanova Brown as Casanova (Cass) Brown
- Breakdowns of 1944 as Self
- 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
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Longfellow Deeds
- Desire as Tom Bradley
- The Plainsman as Wild Bill Hickok
- The General Died at Dawn as O'Hara
- Hollywood Boulevard as Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited)
1935
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer as Alan McGregor
- Peter Ibbetson as Peter Ibbetson
- The Wedding Night as Tony Barrett
- La Fiesta de Santa Barbara as Self
- Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
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
- Alice in Wonderland as White Knight
- Design for Living as George Curtis
- Today We Live as Richard Bogard
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- One Sunday Afternoon as Biff Grimes
1932
- A Farewell to Arms as Lt. Frederic Henry
- If I Had a Million as Steve Gallagher
- Devil and the Deep as Lt. Sempter
- Make Me a Star as Gary Cooper (uncredited)
- Hollywood on Parade as Self
1931
- City Streets as The Kid
- The Stolen Jools as Newspaper Editor
- His Woman as Captain Sam Whalan
- I Take This Woman as Tom McNair
- Fighting Caravans as Clint Belmet
1930
- Morocco as Légionnaire Tom Brown
- Paramount on Parade as Hunter (Dream Girl)
- Seven Days Leave as Kenneth Dowey
- The Texan as Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid
- A Man from Wyoming as Jim Baker
- The Spoilers as Roy Glenister
- Only the Brave as Capt. James Braydon
1929
- The Virginian as The Virginian
- Betrayal as Andre Frey
- Wolf Song as Sam Lash
1928
- Lilac Time as Capt. Philip Blythe
- The First Kiss as Mulligan Talbot
- Doomsday as Arnold Furze
- The Shopworn Angel as William Tyler
- Half a Bride as Capt. Edmunds
- The Legion of the Condemned as Gale Price
- Beau Sabreur as Maj. Henri de Beaujolais
1927
- Wings as Cadet White
- It as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
- Children of Divorce as Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee
- The Last Outlaw as Sheriff Buddy Hale
- Nevada as Nevada
- Arizona Bound as Dave Saulter
1926
- The Winning of Barbara Worth as Abe Lee
- The Johnstown Flood as Flood Survivor (uncredited)
- Old Ironsides as Seaman (uncredited)
- Lightnin' Wins as Tom Harding
- Lightnin' Flashes as (uncredited)
- A Six Shootin' Romance as (uncredited)
- Three Pals as Car Driver Flirting with Betty
- Watch Your Wife as Bit part (uncredited)
- Bad Man's Bluff as Cowboy (uncredited)
1925
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Roman Guard (uncredited)
- The Eagle as Masked Cossack (uncredited)
- The Vanishing American as (uncredited)
- Wild Horse Mesa as Cowboy
- North Star as Townsman (uncredited)
- Dick Turpin as Crowd Extra (uncredited)
- The Thundering Herd as Buffalo Hunter (uncredited)
- Warrior Gap as Bit part
- Tricks as Rider (uncredited)
- Riders of the Purple Sage as Rider (uncredited)
- The Drug Store Cowboy as Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited)
- The Lucky Horseshoe as Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited)
- The Trail Rider as Rider (uncredited)