Gary Cooper

1901-1961

Biography: life and films

Gary Cooper was an American actor. He was born in Helena, Montana, USA on 7th May 1901 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 13th May 1961, aged 60.

His best films as an actor include Richard Boleslawski's Operator 13 (1934), Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), Fritz Lang's thriller Cloak and Dagger (1946) and Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952).

Gary Cooper appeared in 128 films.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Henry Hathaway (7 films), Sam Wood (4), Cecil B. DeMille (4), Alan James (4), Rowland V. Lee (3), John Waters (3), Howard Hawks (3), William Wyler (2), William A. Wellman (2), Victor Fleming (2), Stuart Heisler (2), Richard Wallace (2), Philip J. Cook (2), Norman Z. McLeod (2), Michael Anderson (2), Marion Gering (2), Lewis Milestone (2), King Vidor (2), John G. Blystone (2), Hans Tiesler (2), George B. Seitz (2), Frank Capra (2), Frank Borzage (2), Ernst Lubitsch (2), Edward Sloman (2), Dorothy Arzner (2), Delmer Daves (2), Clarence G. Badger (2) and Clarence Brown (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (41 films), Western (37), romance (29), War (20), comedy-romance (15), comedy (15), comedy-drama (12), Documentary (8), history (6), Thriller (6), Biography (6) and Fantasy (2).

Our average rating for Gary Cooper over all films is: 3.0

Filmography

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The Last Hour (1923) [a]

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) [a]

Dick Turpin (1925) [a]

North Star (1925) [a]

The Drug Store Cowboy (1925) [a]

The Eagle (1925) [a]

The Lucky Horseshoe (1925) [a]

The Thundering Herd (1925) [a]

The Trail Rider (1925) [a]

The Vanishing American (1925) [a]

Tricks (1925) [a]

Warrior Gap (1925) [a]

Wild Horse Mesa (1925) [a]

A Six Shootin' Romance (1926) [a]

Bad Man's Bluff (1926) [a]

The Enchanted Hill (1926) [a]

The Johnstown Flood (1926) [a]

The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) [a]

Three Pals (1926) [a]

Thundering Speed (1926) [a]

Watch Your Wife (1926) [a]

Arizona Bound (1927) [a]

Children of Divorce (1927) [a]

It (1927) [a]

Nevada (1927) [a]

The Last Outlaw (1927) [a]

Wings (1927) [a]

Beau Sabreur (1928) [a]

Doomsday (1928) [a]

Half a Bride (1928) [a]

Lilac Time (1928) [a]

Red Hair (1928) [a]

The First Kiss (1928) [a]

The Shopworn Angel (1928) [a]

Betrayal (1929) [a]

The Virginian (1929) [a]

The Wolf Song (1929) [a]

A Man from Wyoming (1930) [a]

Galas de la Paramount (1930) [a]

Morocco (1930) [a]

Only the Brave (1930) [a]

Paramount on Parade (1930) [a]

Seven Days' Leave (1930) [a]

The Spoilers (1930) [a]

The Texan (1930) [a]

City Streets (1931) [a]

Fighting Caravans (1931) [a]

His Woman (1931) [a]

I Take This Woman (1931) [a]

A Farewell to Arms (1932) [a]

Devil and the Deep (1932) [a]

If I Had a Million (1932) [a]

Make Me a Star (1932) [a]

Alice in Wonderland (1933) [a]

Design for Living (1933) [a]

One Sunday Afternoon (1933) [a]

Today We Live (1933) [a]

Now and Forever (1934) [a]

Operator 13 (1934) [a]

Peter Ibbetson (1935) [a]

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) [a]

The Wedding Night (1935) [a]

Desire (1936) [a]

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) [a]

The General Died at Dawn (1936) [a]

The Plainsman (1936) [a]

Souls at Sea (1937) [a]

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) [a]

The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) [a]

The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) [a]

Beau Geste (1939) [a]

The Real Glory (1939) [a]

North West Mounted Police (1940) [a]

The Westerner (1940) [a]

Ball of Fire (1941) [a]

Meet John Doe (1941) [a]

Sergeant York (1941) [a]

The Pride of the Yankees (1942) [a]

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) [a]

Casanova Brown (1944) [a]

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) [a]

Along Came Jones (1945) [a]

Saratoga Trunk (1945) [a]

Cloak and Dagger (1946) [a]

Unconquered (1947) [a]

Variety Girl (1947) [a]

Good Sam (1948) [a]

It's a Great Feeling (1949) [a]

Task Force (1949) [a]

The Fountainhead (1949) [a]

Bright Leaf (1950) [a]

Dallas (1950) [a]

Distant Drums (1951) [a]

It's a Big Country (1951) [a]

Starlift (1951) [a]

You're in the Navy Now (1951) [a]

High Noon (1952) [a]

Springfield Rifle (1952) [a]

Blowing Wild (1953) [a]

Return to Paradise (1953) [a]

Boum sur Paris (1954) [a]

Garden of Evil (1954) [a]

Vera Cruz (1954) [a]

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) [a]

Friendly Persuasion (1956) [a]

Love in the Afternoon (1957) [a]

Man of the West (1958) [a]

Ten North Frederick (1958) [a]

Alias Jesse James (1959) [a]

The Hanging Tree (1959) [a]

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) [a]

They Came to Cordura (1959) [a]

The Naked Edge (1961) [a]

The Love Goddesses (1965) [a]

America at the Movies (1976) [a]

Canciones para después de una guerra (1976) [a]

Hollywood on Trial (1976) [a]

Ingrid (1984) [a]

Beyond the Rising Moon (1987) [a]

Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (1989) [a]

Invader (1992) [a]

One Nation Under God (1993) [a]

Entertaining the Troops (1994) [a]

No Worries (1994) [a]

Adieu Gary (2009) [a]

Stone Bros. (2009) [a]



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