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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 7, 1901
Died
May 13, 1961
Place of Birth
Helena, Montana, USA
Also Known As
- Coop
- Garry Cooper
- Frank James Cooper
- Frank J. Cooper
- Cowboy Cooper
- The Montana Mule
- Studs
- Гері Купер
- گری کوپر
Gary Cooper
1.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.0
Self (archive footage)
Sverige och kriget
2025
7.7
Self (archive footage)
I Am Not Your Negro
2017
10.0
Self (archive footage)
Paris Hilton, Inc.
2009
6.8
(archive footage)
Bright Leaves
2004
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
2003
8.0
Self (archive footage)
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
2001
7.7
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999
7.0
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
1998
4.9
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997
Credits
Sverige och kriget
as Self (archive footage)
2025
5.0
I Am Not Your Negro
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.7
Paris Hilton, Inc.
as Self (archive footage)
2009
10.0
Bright Leaves
as (archive footage)
2004
6.8
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.7
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
as Self (archive footage)
2001
8.0
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
1999
7.7
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
1998
7.0
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage)
1997
4.9
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
as Self (archive footage)
1997
7.5
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
as Self (archive footage)
1996
6.7
Citizen Cohn
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1992
6.0
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
as Self (archive footage)
1991
5.7
Movie Tough Guys
as Self (archive footage)
1991
10.0
Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend
as Self (archive footage)
1989
0.0
American Experience
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
6.9
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
1988
6.0
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
as Self (archive footage)
1987
6.5
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
as Self (archive footage)
1985
0.0
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
Showbiz Goes to War
as (archive footage)
1982
10.0
Showbiz Ballyhoo
as Self (archive footage)
1982
0.0
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
as Self (archive footage)
1982
6.0
Hollywood
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1980
8.3
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
as Beau Geste (archive footage)
1977
5.5
Songs for After a War
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
6.5
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
6.1
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self (archive footage)
1973
6.0
The Naked Edge
as George Radcliffe
1961
6.2
Project XX: The Real West
as Self - Narrator
1961
0.0
The 10 from Texas
as (archive footage)
1961
0.0
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
1960
6.0
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
as Gideon Patch
1959
6.2
They Came to Cordura
as Major Thomas Thorn
1959
6.6
Alias Jesse James
as Cowboy
1959
5.8
The Hanging Tree
as Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail
1959
6.7
Man of the West
as Link Jones
1958
6.6
The Western: A Lost TV Special
as Self
1958
0.0
Ten North Frederick
as Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin
1958
6.9
Love in the Afternoon
as Frank Flannagan
1957
7.0
Friendly Persuasion
as Jess Birdwell
1956
6.7
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
as Col. Billy Mitchell
1955
6.8
Vera Cruz
as Benjamin Trane
1954
6.6
Garden of Evil
as Hooker
1954
6.1
Boom on Paris
as Self
1954
5.4
Blowing Wild
as Jeff Dawson
1953
5.8
Return to Paradise
as Mr. Morgan
1953
5.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Springfield Rifle
as Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney
1952
6.3
High Noon
as Marshal Will Kane
1952
7.7
Distant Drums
as Capt. Quincy Wyatt
1951
6.2
Starlift
as Gary Cooper
1951
5.6
It's a Big Country
as Texas
1951
5.3
You're in the Navy Now
as Lt. John W. Harkness
1951
4.4
Dallas
as Blayde "Reb" Hollister
1950
6.5
The Jack Benny Program
as Self
1950
7.8
Bright Leaf
as Brant Royle
1950
5.7
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Breakdowns of 1949
as Self
1949
6.0
Snow Carnival
as Self - Narrator
1949
6.2
Task Force
as Jonathan L. Scott
1949
7.0
It's a Great Feeling
as Gary Cooper (uncredited)
1949
5.8
The Fountainhead
as Howard Roark
1949
6.8
Good Sam
as Sam Clayton
1948
6.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Unconquered
as Captain Christopher Holden
1947
6.3
Variety Girl
as Gary Cooper
1947
6.1
Cloak and Dagger
as Prof. Alvah Jesper
1946
6.5
The Army Nurse
as Self (archive footage)
1945
0.0
Saratoga Trunk
as Colonel Clint Maroon
1945
5.7
Along Came Jones
as Melody Jones
1945
5.6
Breakdowns of 1944
as Self
1944
6.5
Casanova Brown
as Casanova (Cass) Brown
1944
6.4
Memo for Joe
as Self
1944
0.0
The Story of Dr. Wassell
as Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
1944
6.3
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
1943
5.3
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Robert Jordan
1943
6.5
The Pride of the Yankees
as Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig
1942
7.4
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3
as Self
1942
0.0
Ball of Fire
as Professor Bertram Potts
1941
7.3
Breakdowns of 1941
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
7.0
Sergeant York
as Alvin C. York
1941
7.2
Meet John Doe
as Long John Willoughby
1941
7.3
North West Mounted Police
as Dusty Rivers
1940
6.4
The Westerner
as Cole Harden
1940
7.1
The Real Glory
as Doctor Canavan
1939
6.3
Beau Geste
as Beau Geste
1939
6.9
The Cowboy and the Lady
as Stretch Willoughby
1938
6.3
The Adventures of Marco Polo
as Marco Polo
1938
6.0
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
as Michael Brandon
1938
7.0
Souls at Sea
as Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor
1937
6.3
Lest We Forget
as Himself
1937
0.0
The General Died at Dawn
as O'Hara
1936
6.3
The Plainsman
as Wild Bill Hickok
1936
6.3
Hollywood Boulevard
as Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited)
1936
2.7
Desire
as Tom Bradley
1936
6.9
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Longfellow Deeds
1936
7.5
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
as Self
1935
5.9
Peter Ibbetson
as Peter Ibbetson
1935
6.9
🎬
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
1935
0.0
The Wedding Night
as Tony Barrett
1935
5.8
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as Alan McGregor
1935
6.6
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
as Self
1934
5.5
The Hollywood Gad-About
as Self (uncredited)
1934
5.0
Now and Forever
as Jerome 'Jerry' Day
1934
6.6
Operator 13
as Captain Jack Gailliard
1934
5.8
Design for Living
as George Curtis
1933
7.1
Alice in Wonderland
as White Knight
1933
6.1
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
0.0
One Sunday Afternoon
as Biff Grimes
1933
6.3
Today We Live
as Richard Bogard
1933
6.2
A Farewell to Arms
as Lt. Frederic Henry
1932
6.1
If I Had a Million
as Steve Gallagher
1932
6.6
Devil and the Deep
as Lt. Sempter
1932
4.8
Make Me a Star
as Gary Cooper (uncredited)
1932
5.5
Hollywood on Parade
as Self
1932
3.0
His Woman
as Captain Sam Whalan
1931
3.2
I Take This Woman
as Tom McNair
1931
5.4
City Streets
as The Kid
1931
6.2
The Stolen Jools
as Newspaper Editor
1931
5.6
Fighting Caravans
as Clint Belmet
1931
4.8
Morocco
as Légionnaire Tom Brown
1930
6.3
The Spoilers
as Roy Glenister
1930
6.0
A Man from Wyoming
as Jim Baker
1930
9.0
The Texan
as Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid
1930
5.8
Paramount on Parade
as Hunter (Dream Girl)
1930
6.1
Only the Brave
as Capt. James Braydon
1930
0.0
Seven Days Leave
as Kenneth Dowey
1930
7.0
The Virginian
as The Virginian
1929
5.8
Betrayal
as Andre Frey
1929
0.0
Wolf Song
as Sam Lash
1929
4.4
The Shopworn Angel
as William Tyler
1928
0.0
Lilac Time
as Capt. Philip Blythe
1928
6.2
The First Kiss
as Mulligan Talbot
1928
0.0
Half a Bride
as Capt. Edmunds
1928
6.0
The Legion of the Condemned
as Gale Price
1928
0.0
Doomsday
as Arnold Furze
1928
6.0
Beau Sabreur
as Maj. Henri de Beaujolais
1928
0.0
Wings
as Cadet White
1927
7.2
Nevada
as Nevada
1927
6.0
The Last Outlaw
as Sheriff Buddy Hale
1927
0.0
Children of Divorce
as Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee
1927
5.7
Arizona Bound
as Dave Saulter
1927
0.0
It
as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
1927
6.9
Bad Man's Bluff
as Cowboy (uncredited)
1926
0.0
Old Ironsides
as Seaman (uncredited)
1926
6.2
Lightnin' Flashes
as (uncredited)
1926
0.0
The Winning of Barbara Worth
as Abe Lee
1926
6.3
Lightnin' Wins
as Tom Harding
1926
0.0
Watch Your Wife
as Bit part (uncredited)
1926
0.0
A Six Shootin' Romance
as (uncredited)
1926
0.0
The Johnstown Flood
as Flood Survivor (uncredited)
1926
6.8
Three Pals
as Car Driver Flirting with Betty
1926
0.0
North Star
as Townsman (uncredited)
1925
6.0
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Roman Guard (uncredited)
1925
7.3
Tricks
as Rider (uncredited)
1925
0.0
The Eagle
as Masked Cossack (uncredited)
1925
6.3
The Vanishing American
as (uncredited)
1925
6.5
Wild Horse Mesa
as Cowboy
1925
7.0
The Lucky Horseshoe
as Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited)
1925
0.0
The Drug Store Cowboy
as Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited)
1925
0.0
Riders of the Purple Sage
as Rider (uncredited)
1925
5.7
The Thundering Herd
as Buffalo Hunter (uncredited)
1925
0.0
The Trail Rider
as Rider (uncredited)
1925
0.0
Dick Turpin
as Crowd Extra (uncredited)
1925
5.3
Warrior Gap
as Bit part
1925
0.0