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Gary Cooper
1 FOLLOWER • 52 CREDITS • MAY 7, 1901 - MAY 13, 1961 • 60
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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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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
Golden Globe Awards
What's My Line?
The Jack Benny Program
Hollywood Boulevard
Old Ironsides
Make Me a Star
Paramount on Parade
Sweden and the War
The Oscars
It
The Love Goddesses
The Thundering Herd
Alice in Wonderland
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Variety Girl
Children of Divorce
Betrayal
Devil and the Deep
A Farewell to Arms
The Texan
Desire
The Shopworn Angel
Half a Bride
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
The Plainsman
The Story of Dr. Wassell
The Spoilers
The General Died at Dawn
Unconquered
Beau Geste
Only the Brave
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
For Whom the Bell Tolls
One Sunday Afternoon
Souls at Sea
North West Mounted Police
Now and Forever
Dallas
Morocco
If I Had a Million
A Man from Wyoming
Seven Days Leave
The Virginian
His Woman
Wolf Song
Peter Ibbetson
Fighting Caravans
I Take This Woman
City Streets
The Last Outlaw
Production Credits
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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