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Gary Cooper
Highest Rated: 100% Old Ironsides (1926)
Lowest Rated: 20% Today We Live (1933)
Birthday: May 7, 1901
Birthplace: Helena, Montana, USA
Gary Cooper's rugged mug, soft-spoken demeanor and earnest, haunted eyes for decades made him the quintessential lonely American of motion pictures, a more stoic, human protagonist versus boisterous, bigger-than-life Hollywood supermen. Privately a debonair ladies' man with a taste for high society, he crafted an image as just the opposite, from his prototype cowboy talkie "The Virginian" (1929) playing shy, stoic "aw-shucks" heroes. He built that image in such classics as Frank Capra's "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936) and "Meet John Doe" (1941) and celebrated biopics like "Sergeant York" (1941) and "Pride of the Yankees" (1942). Though he cooperated with the U.S. government's Hollywood witch hunts early in the Cold War, he nevertheless made a triumphant comeback in the anti-blacklisting parable "High Noon" (1952), refusing to dissociate himself from the film's blacklisted writer, Carl Foreman.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Movie Tough Guys | Unknown (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | The Naked Edge | George Radcliffe (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 86% | 73% | The Hanging Tree | Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Alias Jesse James | Cowboy (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 80% | 48% | They Came to Cordura | Maj. Thomas Thorn (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Gideon Patch (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 95% | 76% | Man of the West | Link Jones (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ten North Frederick | Joseph B. `'Joe'` Chapin (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 82% | 78% | Love in the Afternoon | Frank Flannagan (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 89% | 82% | Friendly Persuasion | Jess Birdwell (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 100% | 61% | The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell | Col. Billy Mitchell (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 86% | 53% | Garden of Evil | Hooker (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 81% | 70% | Vera Cruz | Benjamin Trane (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Blowing Wild | Jeff Dawson (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Return to Paradise | Mr. Morgan (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Springfield Rifle | Maj. Alex "Lex" Kearney (Character) | - | 1952 |
| 94% | 89% | High Noon | Marshal Will Kane (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | It's a Big Country | Unknown (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 100% | 35% | You're in the Navy Now | Lt. John W. Harkness (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Distant Drums | Capt. Quincy Wyatt (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | Starlift | Self | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Bright Leaf | Brant Royle (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Dallas | Blayde Hollister (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | It's a Great Feeling | Self | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Task Force | Jonathan L. Scott (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 83% | 74% | The Fountainhead | Howard Roark (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 60% | 63% | Good Sam | Samuel R. `'Sam'` Clayton (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Variety Girl | Unknown (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 86% | 66% | Unconquered | Capt. Christopher Holden (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 80% | 43% | Cloak and Dagger | Prof. Alvah Jesper (Character) | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Saratoga Trunk | Colonel Clint Maroon (Character) | - | 1945 |
| 40% | 51% | Along Came Jones |
Melody Jones (Character), Producer |
- | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 34% | Casanova Brown | Casanova "Cass" Brown (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | The Story of Dr. Wassell | Dr. Corydon M. Wassell (Character) | - | 1944 |
| 67% | 63% | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Robert Jordan (Character) | - | 1943 |
| 94% | 89% | The Pride of the Yankees | Lou Gehrig (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 92% | 83% | Meet John Doe |
John Doe/ |
- | 1941 |
| 100% | 89% | Ball of Fire | Prof. Bertram Potts (Character) | - | 1941 |
| 88% | 87% | Sergeant York | Alvin C. York (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Northwest Mounted Police | Dusty Rivers (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 100% | 76% | The Westerner | Cole Harden (Character) | - | 1940 |
| 100% | 85% | Beau Geste | Michael "Beau" Geste (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 80% | 36% | The Real Glory | Dr. Bill Canavan (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 60% | 26% | The Adventures of Marco Polo | Marco Polo (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | The Cowboy and the Lady | Stretch Willoughby (Character) | - | 1938 |
| 50% | 63% | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife | Michael Brandon (Character) | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Souls at Sea | `'Nuggin'` Taylor (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 100% | 77% | Desire | Tom Bradley (Character) | - | 1936 |
| 86% | 54% | The General Died at Dawn | O'Hara (Character) | - | 1936 |
| 100% | 52% | The Plainsman | Wild Bill Hickok (Character) | - | 1936 |
| 91% | 86% | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town |
Longfellow Deeds/ |
- | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wedding Night | Anthony "Tony" Barrett (Character) | - | 1935 |
| 100% | 72% | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | Lt. Alan McGregor (Character) | - | 1935 |
| 83% | 62% | Peter Ibbetson | Peter Ibbetson (Character) | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Operator 13 | Capt. Jack Gailliard C.S.A. (Character) | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Now and Forever | Jerry Day (Character) | - | 1934 |
| 20% | 27% | Today We Live | Bogard (Character) | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | One Sunday Afternoon | Dr. Lucius Griffith "Biff" Grimes (Character) | - | 1933 |
| 76% | 80% | Design for Living | George Curtis (Character) | - | 1933 |
| 60% | 58% | Alice in Wonderland | White Knight (Character) | - | 1933 |
| 100% | 71% | If I Had a Million | Steve Gallagher (Character) | - | 1932 |
| 94% | 53% | A Farewell to Arms | Lt. Frederic Henry (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Devil and the Deep | Lieutenant Sempter (Character) | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | 27% | Fighting Caravans | Clint Belmet (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | His Woman | Captain Sam Whalan (Character) | - | 1931 |
| 80% | 84% | City Streets | The Kid (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Take This Woman | Tom McNair (Character) | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Texan | Enrique, The Llano Kid (Character) | - | 1930 |
| 83% | 70% | Morocco | Légionnaire Tom Brown (Character) | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seven Days Leave | Kenneth Downey (Character) | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Only the Brave | Capt. James Braydon (Character) | - | 1930 |
| 100% | 84% | The Virginian | The Virginian (Character) | - | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wolf Song | Sam Lash (Character) | - | 1929 |
| 90% | No Score Yet | The Legion of the Condemned | Gale Price (Character) | - | 1928 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Lilac Time | Capt. Philip Blythe (Character) | - | 1928 |
| 60% | No Score Yet | Beau Sabreur | Unknown (Character) | - | 1928 |
| 94% | 79% | Wings | Cadet White (Character) | - | 1927 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Children of Divorce | Ted Larrabee (Character) | - | 1927 |
| 88% | 81% | It | Newspaper Reporter (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1927 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Outlaw | Sheriff Buddy Hale (Character) | - | 1927 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nevada | Nevada (Character) | - | 1927 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | The Winning of Barbara Worth | Abe Lee (Character) | - | 1926 |
| 100% | 67% | Old Ironsides | Unknown (Character) | - | 1926 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild Horse Mesa | Cowboy (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1925 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Drug Store Cowboy | Cowboy (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1925 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tricks | Unknown (Character) | - | 1925 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jack Benny Program: The Lost Episodes | Guest | 1958 |