
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

It

The Love Goddesses

The Thundering Herd

Alice in Wonderland

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

Children of Divorce

Betrayal

Variety Girl

A Farewell to Arms

Devil and the Deep

Desire

Half a Bride

The Shopworn Angel

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

The Texan

If I Had a Million

Only the Brave

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Beau Geste

The Last Outlaw

North West Mounted Police

Now and Forever

Wolf Song

The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Virginian

Fighting Caravans

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The Plainsman

One Sunday Afternoon

Unconquered

The General Died at Dawn

His Woman

The Spoilers

Seven Days Leave

Souls at Sea

Morocco

City Streets

Dallas

Peter Ibbetson

A Man from Wyoming

I Take This Woman
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