Gary Cooper
Acting
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.
Born: May 7, 1901
Place of Birth: Helena, Montana, USA
Known For
Movie Tough Guys
This compilation of film highlights features many of the biggest box office tough guys of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s—Bogart, Brando, Cagney and more!
Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
Paris Hilton, Inc.
We are drowning in celebrity culture and certainly no tabloid topic has been as big as Paris Hilton. Her incarceration and subsequent release, then re-incarceration and her ultimate release once again-left us submerged knee-deep in the twists and turns of her life. Famous for doing nothing, she's the ultimate manifestation of our obsession with celebrity culture and the massive profits that it wields. As long as we are willing to watch and read, who can resist feeding our habit?
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
A Man from Wyoming
A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married.
Hollywood
A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this classy documentary created for the PBS American Masters series. Based on A. Scott Berg's acclaimed biography, the film includes new interviews with Goldwyn's surviving family members as well as vintage interviews with such luminaries as Bette Davis, John Huston, Laurence Olivier and others.
Cinépanorama
The Jack Benny Program
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
Filmography
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as George Radcliffe
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as Gideon Patch
as Major Thomas Thorn
as Cowboy
as Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail
as Link Jones
as Joseph B. 'Joe' Chapin
as Frank Flannagan
as Jess Birdwell
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as Col. Billy Mitchell
as Benjamin Trane
as Hooker
as lui-même
as Jeff Dawson
as Mr. Morgan
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as Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney
as Marshal Will Kane
as Capt. Quincy Wyatt
as Gary Cooper
as Texas
as Lt. John W. Harkness
as Blayde "Reb" Hollister
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as Brant Royle
as Self - Mystery Guest
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as Jonathan L. Scott
as Gary Cooper (uncredited)
as Howard Roark
as Sam Clayton
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as Captain Christopher Holden
as Gary Cooper
as Prof. Alvah Jesper
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as Colonel Clint Maroon
as Melody Jones
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as Casanova (Cass) Brown
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as Dr. Corydon M. Wassell
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as Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
as Robert Jordan
as Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig
as Professor Bertram Potts
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as Alvin C. York
as Long John Willoughby
as Dusty Rivers
as Cole Harden
as Doctor Canavan
as Beau Geste
as Stretch Willoughby
as Marco Polo
as Michael Brandon
as Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor
as Himself
as O'Hara
as Wild Bill Hickok
as Gary Cooper - Actor at Trocadero Bar (uncredited)
as Tom Bradley
as Longfellow Deeds
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as Peter Ibbetson
as Tony Barrett
as Alan McGregor
as Self (uncredited)
as Jerome 'Jerry' Day
as Captain Jack Gailliard
as George Curtis
as White Knight
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as Biff Grimes
as Richard Bogard
as Lt. Frederic Henry
as Steve Gallagher
as Lt. Sempter
as Gary Cooper (uncredited)
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as Captain Sam Whalan
as Tom McNair
as The Kid
as Newspaper Editor
as Clint Belmet
as Légionnaire Tom Brown
as Roy Glenister
as Jim Baker
as Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid
as Hunter (Dream Girl)
as Capt. James Braydon
as Kenneth Dowey
as The Virginian
as Andre Frey
as Sam Lash
as William Tyler
as Capt. Philip Blythe
as Mulligan Talbot
as Capt. Edmunds
as Gale Price
as Arnold Furze
as Maj. Henri de Beaujolais
as Cadet White
as Nevada
as Sheriff Buddy Hale
as Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee
as Dave Saulter
as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
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as Seaman (uncredited)
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as Abe Lee
as Tom Harding
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as Flood Survivor (uncredited)
as Car Driver Flirting with Betty
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