Gary Cooper
Acting • Born 1901-05-07 – Died 1961-05-13
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
167 credits
High Noon
Movie • 1952
Marshal Will Kane
Movie Tough Guys
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Movie • 1985
Self (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
A Farewell to Arms
Movie • 1932
Lt. Frederic Henry
The Fountainhead
Movie • 1949
Howard Roark
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Movie • 1936
Longfellow Deeds
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Movie • 1938
Michael Brandon
The Wedding Night
Movie • 1935
Tony Barrett
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1933
White Knight
Meet John Doe
Movie • 1941
Long John Willoughby
Vera Cruz
Movie • 1954
Benjamin Trane
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie • 1943
Robert Jordan
Warrior Gap
Movie • 1925
Bit part
Wings
Movie • 1927
Cadet White
Garden of Evil
Movie • 1954
Hooker
City Streets
Movie • 1931
The Kid
Ball of Fire
Movie • 1941
Professor Bertram Potts
The Virginian
Movie • 1929
The Virginian
Man of the West
Movie • 1958
Link Jones
Morocco
Movie • 1930
Légionnaire Tom Brown
Beau Geste
Movie • 1939
Beau Geste
The Westerner
Movie • 1940
Cole Harden
Friendly Persuasion
Movie • 1956
Jess Birdwell
The Hanging Tree
Movie • 1959
Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail
Souls at Sea
Movie • 1937
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor
Task Force
Movie • 1949
Jonathan L. Scott
Distant Drums
Movie • 1951
Capt. Quincy Wyatt
The Plainsman
Movie • 1936
Wild Bill Hickok
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Movie • 1935
Alan McGregor
Cloak and Dagger
Movie • 1946
Prof. Alvah Jesper
Sergeant York
Movie • 1941
Alvin C. York
Dick Turpin
Movie • 1925
Crowd Extra (uncredited)
Citizen Cohn
Movie • 1992
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
It's a Great Feeling
Movie • 1949
Gary Cooper (uncredited)
The Hollywood Gad-About
Movie • 1934
Self (uncredited)
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Movie • 1933
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Make Me a Star
Movie • 1932
Gary Cooper (uncredited)
It
Movie • 1927
Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
Old Ironsides
Movie • 1926
Seaman (uncredited)
Lightnin' Flashes
Movie • 1926
(uncredited)
The Johnstown Flood
Movie • 1926
Flood Survivor (uncredited)
North Star
Movie • 1925
Townsman (uncredited)
The Eagle
Movie • 1925
Masked Cossack (uncredited)
The Trail Rider
Movie • 1925
Rider (uncredited)
The Thundering Herd
Movie • 1925
Buffalo Hunter (uncredited)
The Drug Store Cowboy
Movie • 1925
Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited)
The Vanishing American
Movie • 1925
(uncredited)
A Six Shootin' Romance
Movie • 1926
(uncredited)
Saratoga Trunk
Movie • 1945
Colonel Clint Maroon
Alias Jesse James
Movie • 1959
Cowboy
Riders of the Purple Sage
Movie • 1925
Rider (uncredited)
They Came to Cordura
Movie • 1959
Major Thomas Thorn
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Movie • 1925
Roman Guard (uncredited)
Love in the Afternoon
Movie • 1957
Frank Flannagan
The Lucky Horseshoe
Movie • 1925
Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited)
Tricks
Movie • 1925
Rider (uncredited)
Casanova Brown
Movie • 1944
Casanova (Cass) Brown
Breakdowns of 1941
Movie • 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Pride of the Yankees
Movie • 1942
Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig
Showbiz Goes to War
Movie • 1982
(archive footage)
You're in the Navy Now
Movie • 1951
Lt. John W. Harkness
Now and Forever
Movie • 1934
Jerome 'Jerry' Day
Devil and the Deep
Movie • 1932
Lt. Sempter
Along Came Jones
Movie • 1945
Melody Jones
Unconquered
Movie • 1947
Captain Christopher Holden
North West Mounted Police
Movie • 1940
Dusty Rivers
It's a Big Country
Movie • 1951
Texas
Bright Leaf
Movie • 1950
Brant Royle
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Movie • 1944
Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
Blowing Wild
Movie • 1953
Jeff Dawson
Peter Ibbetson
Movie • 1935
Peter Ibbetson
Lilac Time
Movie • 1928
Capt. Philip Blythe
Design for Living
Movie • 1933
George Curtis
Desire
Movie • 1936
Tom Bradley
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Movie • 1926
Abe Lee
Ten North Frederick
Movie • 1958
Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin
If I Had a Million
Movie • 1932
Steve Gallagher
Today We Live
Movie • 1933
Richard Bogard
The Naked Edge
Movie • 1961
George Radcliffe
Good Sam
Movie • 1948
Sam Clayton
Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend
Movie • 1989
Self (archive footage)
Nevada
Movie • 1927
Nevada
Fighting Caravans
Movie • 1931
Clint Belmet
Springfield Rifle
Movie • 1952
Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney
Operator 13
Movie • 1934
Captain Jack Gailliard
The Cowboy and the Lady
Movie • 1938
Stretch Willoughby
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Movie • 1988
Self (archive footage)
The Real Glory
Movie • 1939
Doctor Canavan
The General Died at Dawn
Movie • 1936
O'Hara
Dallas
Movie • 1950
Blayde "Reb" Hollister
Variety Girl
Movie • 1947
Gary Cooper
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Movie • 1959
Gideon Patch
Return to Paradise
Movie • 1953
Mr. Morgan
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Movie • 1938
Marco Polo
One Sunday Afternoon
Movie • 1933
Biff Grimes
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Movie • 1955
Col. Billy Mitchell
Only the Brave
Movie • 1930
Capt. James Braydon
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Movie • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Starlift
Movie • 1951
Gary Cooper
Seven Days Leave
Movie • 1930
Kenneth Dowey
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Movie • 1999
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Boom on Paris
Movie • 1954
lui-même
Doomsday
Movie • 1928
Arnold Furze
The Legion of the Condemned
Movie • 1928
Gale Price
Snow Carnival
Movie • 1949
Self - Narrator
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3
Movie • 1942
Self
His Woman
Movie • 1931
Captain Sam Whalan
The Shopworn Angel
Movie • 1928
William Tyler
Wolf Song
Movie • 1929
Sam Lash
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Movie • 1935
Self
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Three Pals
Movie • 1926
Car Driver Flirting with Betty
Hollywood on Parade
Movie • 1932
Self
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Project XX: The Real West
Movie • 1961
Self - Narrator
Hollywood Boulevard
Movie • 1936
Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Movie • 1960
Self
A Man from Wyoming
Movie • 1930
Jim Baker
The Texan
Movie • 1930
Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
The Spoilers
Movie • 1930
Roy Glenister
Lightnin' Wins
Movie • 1926
Tom Harding
The Stolen Jools
Movie • 1931
Newspaper Editor
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Movie • 1973
Self (archive footage)
Beau Sabreur
Movie • 1928
Maj. Henri de Beaujolais
Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove
Movie • 1934
Self
Paramount on Parade
Movie • 1930
Hunter (Dream Girl)
Children of Divorce
Movie • 1927
Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee
Bright Leaves
Movie • 2004
(archive footage)
I Take This Woman
Movie • 1931
Tom McNair
The First Kiss
Movie • 1928
Mulligan Talbot
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
Wild Horse Mesa
Movie • 1925
Cowboy
The Last Outlaw
Movie • 1927
Sheriff Buddy Hale
Breakdowns of 1944
Movie • 1944
Self
Breakdowns of 1949
Movie • 1949
Self
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Movie • 1975
Self (archive footage)
Complicated Women
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Memo for Joe
Movie • 1944
Self
Betrayal
Movie • 1929
Andre Frey
The 10 from Texas
Movie • 1961
(archive footage)
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Movie • 1943
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Half a Bride
Movie • 1928
Capt. Edmunds
The Army Nurse
Movie • 1945
Self (archive footage)
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Movie • 1977
Beau Geste (archive footage)
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
Movie • 1998
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Arizona Bound
Movie • 1927
Dave Saulter
Lest We Forget
Movie • 1937
Himself
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
Movie • 1935
Songs for After a War
Movie • 1976
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Showbiz Ballyhoo
Movie • 1982
Self (archive footage)
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Movie • 1958
Self
Bad Man's Bluff
Movie • 1926
Cowboy (uncredited)
Watch Your Wife
Movie • 1926
Bit part (uncredited)
Lykke og krone
Movie • 1962
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Self
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self - Mystery Guest
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
American Experience
TV • 1988
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood
TV • 1980
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Presenter
Sverige och kriget
TV • 2025
Self (archive footage)