Gary Cooper
Acting
🎂 1901-05-07
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.
Cast credits(166)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Self - Presenter
1944
Self
1948
Self
1953
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Self
1950
Self
1956
Marshal Will Kane
1952
Self (archive footage)
2014
(archive footage)
2004
1935
Frank Flannagan
1957
Benjamin Trane
1954
Alvin C. York
1941
Rider (uncredited)
1925
Link Jones
1958
Self (archive footage)
1982
Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail
1959
Brant Royle
1950
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1980
Self
1954
Robert Jordan
1943
Longfellow Deeds
1936
Capt. Philip Blythe
1928
Professor Bertram Potts
1941
Jess Birdwell
1956
Self
1934
Self - Narrator
1949
Self - Narrator
1961
Gary Cooper
1951
Tom Harding
1926
Captain Jack Gailliard
1934
Dave Saulter
1927
Howard Roark
1949
Prof. Alvah Jesper
1946
Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid
1930
Self (archive footage)
1945
Lt. Sempter
1932
Self (archive footage)
2009
Hooker
1954
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
Gary Cooper (uncredited)
1949
George Curtis
1933
Mr. Morgan
1953
Gideon Patch
1959
Beau Geste (archive footage)
1977
Jeff Dawson
1953
Car Driver Flirting with Betty
1926
Steve Gallagher
1932
Major Thomas Thorn
1959
Long John Willoughby
1941
Captain Christopher Holden
1947
Gary Cooper
1947
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1992
Self (archive footage)
1975
Lt. Frederic Henry
1932
(archive footage)
1982
Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin
1958
Capt. James Braydon
1930
Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor
1937
Cowboy
1959
(archive footage)
1961
Self (archive footage)
2003
Dusty Rivers
1940
Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
1927
Michael Brandon
1938
Texas
1951
Stretch Willoughby
1938
Cole Harden
1940
Biff Grimes
1933
Capt. Edmunds
1928
Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig
1942
Self
1942
Self
1944
Capt. Quincy Wyatt
1951
Arnold Furze
1928
Beau Geste
1939
Captain Sam Whalan
1931
(uncredited)
1926
Jerome 'Jerry' Day
1934
Maj. Henri de Beaujolais
1928
Col. Billy Mitchell
1955
Self (archive footage)
1991
(uncredited)
1925
The Virginian
1929
Self (archive footage)
1988
Cowboy Whose Horse is Being Shod (uncredited)
1925
Bit part
1925
Rider (uncredited)
1925
Jonathan L. Scott
1949
Clint Belmet
1931
Self
1944
Melody Jones
1945
Doctor Canavan
1939
Gale Price
1928
Self (archive footage)
1996
Mulligan Talbot
1928
O'Hara
1936
Self (archive footage)
1985
Peter Ibbetson
1935
Roman Guard (uncredited)
1925
Andre Frey
1929
Rider (uncredited)
1925
Alan McGregor
1935
Himself
1937
Newspaper Editor
1931
Sam Lash
1929
Self (archive footage)
2001
Jim Baker
1930
Sam Clayton
1948
Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee
1927
The Kid
1931
Self (archive footage)
1987
White Knight
1933
Cadet White
1927
Kenneth Dowey
1930
Sheriff Buddy Hale
1927
Self
1949
George Radcliffe
1961
Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney
1952
Wild Bill Hickok
1936
(uncredited)
1926
Self (archive footage)
1989
Colonel Clint Maroon
1945
Tony Barrett
1935
Self (archive footage)
1973
Self (archive footage)
1982
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
1998
Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
1943
Crowd Extra (uncredited)
1925
Self (archive footage)
1997
Hunter (Dream Girl)
1930
Gary Cooper (uncredited)
1932
Self
1960
Self (uncredited)
1934
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941
Légionnaire Tom Brown
1930
Townsman (uncredited)
1925
Lt. John W. Harkness
1951
Nevada
1927
William Tyler
1928
Self (archive footage)
1991
Self
1932
Cowboy
1925
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
1999
Abe Lee
1926
Self (archive footage)
1997
Buffalo Hunter (uncredited)
1925
Roy Glenister
1930
Flood Survivor (uncredited)
1926
Richard Bogard
1933
Self
1935
Seaman (uncredited)
1926
Tom McNair
1931
Unknown-Doubtful (uncredited)
1925
Marco Polo
1938
Masked Cossack (uncredited)
1925
Casanova (Cass) Brown
1944
(archive footage)
1984
Tom Bradley
1936
Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited)
1936
Blayde "Reb" Hollister
1950
Self (archive footage)
2025
Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
1944
Self
1958
