
Gary Cooper
Born May 7, 1901 · Helena, Montana, USA
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.
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The Fountainhead

Unconquered

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Distant Drums

A Farewell to Arms

Bluebeard's 8th Wife

Love in the Afternoon

Wings

Vera Cruz

Morocco

The Adventures of Marco Polo

Meet John Doe

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

The Hanging Tree

Ball of Fire

Garden of Evil

If I Had a Million

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

The Cowboy and the Lady

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Alias Jesse James

North West Mounted Police

The Pride of the Yankees

Cloak and Dagger

Desire

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

Dallas

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

Alice in Wonderland

The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Westerner

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Springfield Rifle

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The General Died at Dawn

It's a Great Feeling

Casanova Brown

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

They Came to Cordura

Showbiz Goes to War

Along Came Jones

Design for Living

You're in the Navy Now

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

The Real Glory

It's a Big Country

The Plainsman

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!

Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire

Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

Blowing Wild

Beau Geste

Peter Ibbetson

Devil and the Deep

Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies

Good Sam

Bright Leaf

Make Me a Star

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

The Naked Edge

Boom on Paris

It

The Voice That Thrilled the World

Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove

The Winning of Barbara Worth

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

The Eagle

His Woman

The Western: A Lost TV Special

The Hollywood Gad-About

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

Variety Girl

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Today We Live

Task Force

Citizen Cohn

Ten North Frederick

Songs for After a War

The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

Complicated Women

Saratoga Trunk

Starlift

Lykke og krone

The Virginian

Souls at Sea

The Stolen Jools

Betrayal

Now and Forever

The 10 from Texas

The Texan

Operator 13

The Legion of the Condemned

I Take This Woman

The Wedding Night

Old Ironsides

Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero

A Man from Wyoming

Breakdowns of 1941

The Shopworn Angel

City Streets

Breakdowns of 1949

Riders of the Purple Sage

Fighting Caravans

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn

The Johnstown Flood

The Drug Store Cowboy

Bad Man's Bluff

Paramount on Parade

Breakdowns of 1944

Seven Days Leave

A Six Shootin' Romance

Half a Bride

Hollywood Boulevard

The First Kiss

Return to Paradise

Hollywood on Parade

Wolf Song

Children of Divorce

The Vanishing American

Watch Your Wife

Lest We Forget

Movie Tough Guys

The Thundering Herd

The Spoilers

The Last Outlaw

The Trail Rider

The Lucky Horseshoe

Marilyn Monroe

One Sunday Afternoon

Arizona Bound

Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend

North Star

Project XX: The Real West

Bright Leaves

Wild Horse Mesa

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3

Nevada

Dick Turpin

Beau Sabreur

Showbiz Ballyhoo

Lilac Time

Memo for Joe

Doomsday

Only the Brave

Lightnin' Wins

Warrior Gap

Tricks

The Army Nurse

Snow Carnival

Lightnin' Flashes
















