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Gary Cooper

Highest Rated: 100% Desire (1936)

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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Highest rated movies

100% 78% Desire
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100% 35% You're in the Navy Now
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100% 67% Old Ironsides
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100% 89% Ball of Fire
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100% 77% The Westerner
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100% 72% The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
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100% 52% The Plainsman
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100% 84% The Virginian
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100% 53% The General Died at Dawn
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100% 69% If I Had a Million
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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 37% Alias Jesse James Cowboy (Character) - 1959
80% 47% 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
81% 78% Love in the Afternoon Frank Flannagan (Character) - 1957
80% 82% Friendly Persuasion Jess Birdwell (Character) - 1956
100% 62% The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell Col. Billy Mitchell (Character) - 1955
86% 52% Garden of Evil Hooker (Character) - 1954
87% 69% 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
95% 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 41% Distant Drums Capt. Quincy Wyatt (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 25% Starlift Self - 1951
No Score Yet 59% Bright Leaf Brant Royle (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 55% Dallas Blayde Hollister (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 31% It's a Great Feeling Self - 1949
No Score Yet 60% Task Force Jonathan L. Scott (Character) - 1949
85% 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% 67% Unconquered Capt. Christopher Holden (Character) - 1947
80% 43% Cloak and Dagger Prof. Alvah Jesper (Character) - 1946
No Score Yet 60% Saratoga Trunk Colonel Clint Maroon (Character) - 1945
40% 52% Along Came Jones Melody Jones (Character),
Producer 		- 1945
No Score Yet 36% Casanova Brown Casanova "Cass" Brown (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 65% The Story of Dr. Wassell Dr. Corydon M. Wassell (Character) - 1944
64% 61% For Whom the Bell Tolls Robert Jordan (Character) - 1943
94% 89% The Pride of the Yankees Lou Gehrig (Character) - 1942
92% 82% Meet John Doe John Doe/Long John Willoughby (Character) - 1941
100% 89% Ball of Fire Prof. Bertram Potts (Character) - 1941
85% 86% Sergeant York Alvin C. York (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet No Score Yet Northwest Mounted Police Dusty Rivers (Character) - 1940
100% 77% The Westerner Cole Harden (Character) - 1940
92% 84% Beau Geste Michael "Beau" Geste (Character) - 1939
80% 39% The Real Glory Dr. Bill Canavan (Character) - 1939
60% 29% The Adventures of Marco Polo Marco Polo (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 63% The Cowboy and the Lady Stretch Willoughby (Character) - 1938
45% 63% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife Michael Brandon (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet 54% Souls at Sea `'Nuggin'` Taylor (Character) - 1937
100% 78% Desire Tom Bradley (Character) - 1936
100% 53% 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/Cinderella Man (Character) - 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% 63% Peter Ibbetson Peter Ibbetson (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet 45% 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% 69% If I Had a Million Steve Gallagher (Character) - 1932
88% 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 I Take This Woman Tom McNair (Character) - 1931
80% 84% City Streets The Kid (Character) - 1931
No Score Yet No Score Yet His Woman Captain Sam Whalan (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
93% 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

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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