
Gary Cooper
0 FOLLOWERS • 50 CREDITS • MAY 7, 1901 - MAY 13, 1961 • 60
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

The Ed Sullivan Show

What's My Line?

The Oscars

The Jack Benny Program

Hollywood Boulevard

Old Ironsides

Make Me a Star

Paramount on Parade

The Love Goddesses

It

The Thundering Herd

Alice in Wonderland

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

Variety Girl

Children of Divorce

Betrayal

Half a Bride

Devil and the Deep

Desire

The Shopworn Angel

The Texan

A Farewell to Arms

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Morocco

Seven Days Leave

The General Died at Dawn

One Sunday Afternoon

A Man from Wyoming

The Spoilers

For Whom the Bell Tolls

City Streets

Peter Ibbetson

Wolf Song

Only the Brave

Fighting Caravans

Souls at Sea

The Story of Dr. Wassell

If I Had a Million

Dallas

North West Mounted Police

The Last Outlaw

The Plainsman

His Woman

I Take This Woman

Beau Geste

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Virginian

Now and Forever

Unconquered
Production Credits
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