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Gary Cooper (I) (1901–1961)

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Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper (not in film business). Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. His first stage experience was during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a part in a two reeler by Hans Tissler (an independent producer)... See full bio »

Born:

Frank James Cooper
in Helena, Montana, USA

Died:

(age 60) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
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1961 The Naked Edge
George Radcliffe
 
1959 The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Gideon Patch
 
1959 They Came to Cordura
Major Thomas Thorn
 
1959 Alias Jesse James
Cowboy (uncredited)
 
1959 The Hanging Tree
Dr. Joseph 'Doc' Frail
 
1958 Man of the West
Link Jones
 
1958 Ten North Frederick
Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin
 
1957 Love in the Afternoon
Frank Flannagan
 
1956 Friendly Persuasion
Jess Birdwell
 
1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
Col. Billy Mitchell
 
1954 Vera Cruz
Benjamin Trane
 
1954 Garden of Evil
Hooker
 
1953 Blowing Wild
Jeff Dawson
 
1953 Return to Paradise
Mr. Morgan
 
1952 Springfield Rifle
Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney
 
1952 High Noon
Marshal Will Kane
 
1951 Distant Drums
Capt. Quincy Wyatt
 
1951 Starlift
Gary Cooper
 
1951 It's a Big Country
Texas
 
1951 You're in the Navy Now
Lt. John W. Harkness
 
1950 Dallas
Blayde Hollister
 
1950 Bright Leaf
Brant Royle
 
1949 Task Force
Jonathan L. Scott
 
1949 It's a Great Feeling
Gary Cooper (uncredited)
 
1949 The Fountainhead
Howard Roark
 
1948 Good Sam
Samuel R. 'Sam' Clayton
 
1947 Unconquered
Capt. Christopher Holden
 
1947 Variety Girl
Gary Cooper
 
1946 Cloak and Dagger
Prof. Alvah Jesper
 
1945 Saratoga Trunk
Colonel Clint Maroon
 
1945 Along Came Jones
Melody Jones
 
1944 Casanova Brown
Casanova (Cass) Brown
 
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell
Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
 
1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Jordan
 
1942 The Pride of the Yankees
Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig
 
1941 Ball of Fire
Prof. Bertram Potts
 
1941 Sergeant York
Alvin C. York
 
1941 Meet John Doe
John Doe
 
1940 North West Mounted Police
Dusty Rivers
 
1940 The Westerner
Cole Harden
 
1939 The Real Glory
Doctor Canavan
 
1939 Beau Geste
Beau Geste
 
1938 The Cowboy and the Lady
Stretch
 
1938 The Adventures of Marco Polo
Marco Polo
 
1938 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Michael Brandon
 
1937 Souls at Sea
'Nuggin' Taylor
 
1936 The Plainsman
Wild Bill Hickok
 
1936 The General Died at Dawn
O'Hara
 
1936 Hollywood Boulevard
Gary Cooper- Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited)
 
1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds
 
1936 Desire
Tom Bradley
 
1935 Peter Ibbetson
Peter Ibbetson
 
1935 The Wedding Night
Tony Barrett
 
1935 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Lieutenant McGregor
 
1934 Now and Forever
Jerry Day
 
1934 Operator 13
Captain Jack Gailliard
 
1933 Design for Living
George Curtis
 
1933 Alice in Wonderland
White Knight
 
1933 One Sunday Afternoon
Biff Grimes
 
1933 Today We Live
Bogard
 
1932 A Farewell to Arms
Lt. Frederic Henry
 
1932 If I Had a Million
Steve Gallagher
 
1932 Devil and the Deep
Lt. Sempter
 
1931 His Woman
Captain Sam Whalan
 
1931 I Take This Woman
Tom McNair
 
1931 City Streets
The Kid
 
1931 The Stolen Jools (short)
Newspaper Editor
 
1931 Fighting Caravans
Clint Belmet
 
1930 Morocco
Légionnaire Tom Brown
 
1930 The Spoilers
Roy Glenister
 
1930 Galas de la Paramount
Hunter - Episode 'Dream Girl'
 
1930 A Man from Wyoming
Jim Baker
 
1930 The Texan
Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid
 
1930 Paramount on Parade
Hunter (Dream Girl)
 
1930 Only the Brave
Capt. James Braydon
 
1930 Seven Days' Leave
Kenneth Downey
 
1929 The Virginian
The Virginian
 
1929 Betrayal
Andre Frey
 
1929 The Wolf Song
Sam Lash
 
1928 The Shopworn Angel
William Tyler
 
1928 The First Kiss
Mulligan Talbot
 
1928 Lilac Time
Capt. Philip Blythe
 
1928 Red Hair
 
1928 The Legion of the Condemned
Gale Price
 
1928 Doomsday
Arnold Furze
 
1928 Beau Sabreur
Maj. Henri de Beaujolais
 
1928 Half a Bride
Capt. Edmunds
 
1927 Nevada
Nevada
 
1927 The Last Outlaw
Sheriff Buddy Hale
 
1927 Wings
Cadet White
 
1927 Children of Divorce
Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee
 
1927 Arizona Bound
Dave Saulter
 
1927 It
Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
 
1926 Bad Man's Bluff
Bit part (uncredited)
 
1926 Old Ironsides
Extra (uncredited)
 
1926 Lightnin' Flashes (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1926 The Winning of Barbara Worth
Abe Lee
 
1926 Lightnin' Wins (short)
 
1926 Thundering Speed
Bit part (uncredited)
 
1926 Watch Your Wife
Bit part (uncredited)
 
1926 A Six Shootin' Romance (uncredited)
 
1926 The Johnstown Flood
Flood Survivor (uncredited)
 
1926 The Enchanted Hill
Bit Part (uncredited)
 
1926 Three Pals
Bit Role (uncredited)
 
1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Roman Guard (uncredited)
 
1925 North Star
Bit part (uncredited)
 
1925 Warrior Gap
Bit part (uncredited)
 
1925 Tricks
Bit Role (uncredited)
 
1925 The Eagle
Masked Cossack (uncredited)
 
1925 The Vanishing American
Extra (uncredited)
 
1925 The Lucky Horseshoe
Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited)
 
1925 Wild Horse Mesa
Cowboy (uncredited)
 
1925 The Drug Store Cowboy
Cowboy whose horse is being shod (uncredited)
 
1925 Riders of the Purple Sage
Rider (uncredited)
 
1925 The Thundering Herd
Bit part (uncredited)
 
1925 The Trail Rider
Rider (uncredited)
 
1925 Dick Turpin
Crowd Extra (uncredited)
 
1923 The Last Hour
Extra (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (17 titles)
1958 The Jack Benny Program (TV series)
– Gary Cooper Show (1958) (performer: "Bird Dog" - uncredited)
 
1956 Friendly Persuasion (performer: "Marry Me, Marry Me" 1956)
 
1951 Starlift (performer: "Look Out, Stranger, I'm a Texas Ranger" - uncredited)
 
1949 Task Force (performer: "Abdulla Bulbul Amir" - uncredited)
 
1948 Good Sam (performer: "I've Been Redeemed" - uncredited, "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" 1910 - uncredited)
 
1947 Variety Girl ("HARMONY")
 
1945 Along Came Jones (performer: "Round and Round" - uncredited, "Old Joe Clark" - uncredited / "On Top of Old Smoky" - uncredited)
 
1942 The Pride of the Yankees (music: "Always" 1925 - uncredited / performer: "Always" 1925 - uncredited / "Always" 1925 - uncredited)
 
1941 Meet John Doe (performer: "March of the Swiss Soldiers" 1829 - uncredited)
 
1938 The Cowboy and the Lady (performer: "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride" - uncredited, "Annie Laurie" ca 1834 - uncredited)
 
1938 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (performer: "Here Comes Cookie" 1935 - uncredited)
 
1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (performer: "Old Folks at Home Swanee River" 1851 - uncredited / "Humoresque, Op. 101/7" 1894 - uncredited)
 
1936 Desire (performer: "I'm Driving a Bronson 8")
 
1935 The Wedding Night (performer: "Trail to Mexico Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" - uncredited)
 
1935 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer ("The Man on the Flying Trapeze" 1868 - uncredited)
 
1933 Design for Living ("The Star Spangled Banner" 1814 - uncredited)
 
1933 One Sunday Afternoon (performer: "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" 1902 - uncredited, "Good-Bye, Little Girl, Good-Bye" 1904 - uncredited)
 
Show ShowProducer (2 titles)
1945 Along Came Jones (producer)
 
1944 Casanova Brown (producer - uncredited)
 
Show ShowStunts (1 title)
1926 The Enchanted Hill (stunts - uncredited)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
Show ShowSelf (36 titles)
1960 The 32nd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter: Best Picture
 
1960 Project XX (TV series documentary)
Narrator
– The Real West (1960) … Narrator
 
1960 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1959 Press Conference (TV series)
Himself
– Gary Cooper (1959) … Himself
 
1959 This Week (TV series)
Himself
– Gary Cooper (1959) … Himself
 
1959 What's My Line? (TV series)
Himself - Mystery Guest
– Episode dated 18 October 1959 (1959) … Himself - Mystery Guest
 
1959 Premier Khrushchev in the USA (documentary)
Himself
 
1959 The 31st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter: Best Director
 
1958 The Jack Benny Program (TV series)
Himself
– Gary Cooper Show (1958) … Himself
 
1958 Wide Wide World (TV series documentary)
Himself
– The Western (1958) … Himself
 
1958 The 30th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter: Best Picture
 
1958 Glamorous Hollywood (documentary short)
Himself
 
1957 Hollywood Glamour on Ice (short)
Himself
 
1953-1957 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #10.41 (1957) … Himself
– Episode #9.14 (1955) … Himself
– Episode #6.21 (1953) … Himself
 
1956-1957 Cinépanorama (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Episode dated 16 May 1957 (1957) … Himself
– Episode dated 9 December 1956 (1956) … Himself
 
1955 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Premiere (short)
Himself
 
1954 The 26th Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Presenter: Best Actress in a Leading Role
 
1953 Boum sur Paris
Himself/En personne
 
1949 Snow Carnival (short)
Himself / Narrator
 
1949 Screen Snapshots: Motion Picture Mothers, Inc. (short)
Himself
 
1944 Memo for Joe (documentary short)
Himself
 
1942 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1940 Screen Snapshots Series 19, No 6: Hollywood Recreations (documentary short)
Himself
 
1940 Screen Snapshots: Seeing Hollywood (documentary short)
Himself - Rodeo Spectator
 
1937 Lest We Forget (short)
Himself
 
1935 La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (short)
Himself
 
1935 Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8 (documentary short)
Himself
 
1934 Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (short)
Himself
 
1934 The Hollywood Gad-About (documentary short)
Himself
 
1934 Hollywood on Parade No. B-6 (short)
Himself
 
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (short)
Himself
 
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A-13 (short)
Himself
 
1932 Make Me a Star
Himself (uncredited)
 
1932 Hollywood on Parade (short)
Himself
 
1932 The Voice of Hollywood No. 13 (Second Series) (short)
Himself
 
1930 Paramount op parade
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (69 titles)
2011 Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn (documentary)
(archive footage: home movies)
 
2009 Goodbye Gary
Link Jones/Benjamin Trane (uncredited)
 
2008 Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence (TV series)
 
2008 How the West Was Lost (TV documentary)
Marshal Will Kane (uncredited)
 
2008 Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (short)
 
2007 Paris Hilton Inc.: The Selling of Celebrity (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Amérique, notre histoire (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Unsere Besten (TV series)
 
2006 Private Screenings (TV series)
 
2006 Billy Wilder Speaks (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Gary Cooper Off Camera: A Daughter Remembers (video)
Himself
 
2005 Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (documentary)
Link Jones (in "Man of the West") (uncredited)
 
2004 Man on the Medal: The Life and Work of Ski Legend Dick Durrance
Himself
 
2003 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
1998-2003 Biography (TV series documentary)
 
2003 Complicated Women (TV documentary)
Himself
 
2002 City Confidential (TV series documentary)
 
2002 My Sister Maria (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
2001 Walt: The Man Behind the Myth (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1999 ABC 2000: The Millennium (TV documentary)
 
1999 The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
 
1999 Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (TV documentary)
Himself/Various Roles (uncredited)
 
1998 Cold War (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1997 Judy Garland's Hollywood (video documentary)
 
1995 The Life and Times of Gary Cooper (TV movie)
Himself
 
1995 The Celluloid Closet (documentary)
Applauds Marlene Dietrich (uncredited)
 
1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1995 Legends of Entertainment Video (video documentary)
Himself
 
1994 Entertaining the Troops (documentary)
Himself
 
1992 Citizen Cohn (TV movie)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1992 The Making of 'High Noon' (video documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1991 Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1989 Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend (documentary)
Himself
 
1988 Cinema Paradiso
Lt. Frederic Henry (uncredited)
 
1988 Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (TV movie)
Himself
 
1988 The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones (video documentary)
Himself
 
1984 TV's Funniest Game Show Moments (TV special)
Himself
 
1984 Ingrid (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1984 Going Hollywood: The '30s (documentary)
 
1982 Showbiz Goes to War (TV movie)
 
1980 Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1979 Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 (TV documentary)
Himself - Oscars, 1942, with Irene Dunne (uncredited)
 
1977 The Last Remake of Beau Geste
Beau Geste
 
1976 Canciones para después de una guerra (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1976 America at the Movies (documentary)
Alvin C. York/Jess Birdwell/Marshall Will Kane
 
1976 Hollywood on Trial (documentary)
Himself
 
1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (documentary)
 
1975 ABC Late Night (TV series)
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary)
Himself
 
1965 Hollywood My Home Town (documentary)
Himself
 
1965 Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look At... (TV series documentary)
 
1964 Hollywood and the Stars (TV series)
 
1952-1963 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV series)
 
1960-1963 Project XX (TV series documentary)
 
1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up (documentary)
Himself
 
1962 Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1962 Lykke og krone (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1961 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV series)
 
1961 I 10 del Texas
 
1945 The Army Nurse (short)
Himself
 
1943 The Voice That Thrilled the World (documentary short)
Himself (segment "Sergeant York") (uncredited)
 
1941 Breakdowns of 1941 (short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1939 Land of Liberty
 
1937 Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (documentary short)
Himself
 
1937 Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (documentary short)
Himself
 
1935 Paramount Headliner: Broadway Highlights No. 1 (short)
Film Clip Character
 
1933 March of the Movies
Himself, film clip (uncredited)
 
1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 (short)
Himself
 
1927 The Spider's Net
Undetermined Role
 

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6 Biographical Movies  | 8 Print Biographies  | 1 Interview  | 6 Articles  | 9 Magazine Cover Photos  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Frank J. Cooper

Height:

6' 3" (1.91 m)
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[23 October 1947] Several years ago, when communism was more of a social chit-chatter in parties for offices, and so on when communism didn't have the implications that it has now, discussion of communism was more open and I remember hearing statements from some folks to the effect that the communistic system had a great many features that were desirable... See more »

Trivia:

Sam Wood directed him in four movies, The Pride of the Yankees, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Casanova Brown and Saratoga Trunk. See more »

Trademark:

Slow, very deliberate delivery See more »

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Star Sign:

Taurus