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Gary Cooper
Known for: ActingGary 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.
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High Noon
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as Marshal Will Kane 
Beau Geste
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as Beau Geste 
Morocco
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as Légionnaire Tom Brown 
Sergeant York
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as Alvin C. York 
Unconquered
as Captain Christopher Holden 
The Hanging Tree
as Dr. Joseph "Doc" Frail 
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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as Longfellow Deeds 
Vera Cruz
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as Benjamin Trane 
Alias Jesse James
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as Cowboy 
Love in the Afternoon
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as Frank Flannagan 
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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as Robert Jordan 
Man of the West
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as Link Jones 
Garden of Evil
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as Hooker 
Friendly Persuasion
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as Jess Birdwell 
A Farewell to Arms
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as Lt. Frederic Henry 
Ball of Fire
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as Professor Bertram Potts 
Distant Drums
as Capt. Quincy Wyatt 
Dallas
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as Blayde "Reb" Hollister 
The Fountainhead
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as Howard Roark 
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
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as Michael Brandon 
Alice in Wonderland
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as White Knight 
The Pride of the Yankees
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as Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig 
Wings
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as Cadet White 
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
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as Gideon Patch 
Meet John Doe
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as Long John Willoughby 
The Cowboy and the Lady
+9
as Stretch Willoughby 
North West Mounted Police
as Dusty Rivers 
The Eagle
+12
as Masked Cossack (uncredited) 
Desire
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as Tom Bradley 
The Westerner
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as Cole Harden 
Cloak and Dagger
as Prof. Alvah Jesper 
The Real Glory
+9
as Doctor Canavan 
Springfield Rifle
as Maj. Alex 'Lex' Kearney 
The Story of Dr. Wassell
as Dr. Corydon M. Wassell 
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
as Col. Billy Mitchell 
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
as Alan McGregor 
The Adventures of Marco Polo
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as Marco Polo 
The Plainsman
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as Wild Bill Hickok 
It
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as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited) 
They Came to Cordura
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as Major Thomas Thorn 
Peter Ibbetson
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as Peter Ibbetson 
Casanova Brown
as Casanova (Cass) Brown 
Blowing Wild
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as Jeff Dawson 
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
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as Self (archive footage) 
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
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as Self (archive footage) 
Design for Living
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as George Curtis 
If I Had a Million
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as Steve Gallagher 
Good Sam
as Sam Clayton 
Bright Leaf
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as Brant Royle 
Along Came Jones
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as Melody Jones 
The Wedding Night
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as Tony Barrett 
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
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as Self (archive footage) 
The Virginian
as The Virginian 
Devil and the Deep
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as Lt. Sempter 
City Streets
as The Kid 
The Winning of Barbara Worth
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as Abe Lee 
Children of Divorce
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as Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee 
Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero
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as Self / Various Roles (archive footage) 
Saratoga Trunk
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as Colonel Clint Maroon 
The Stolen Jools
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as Newspaper Editor 
The Texan
as Enrique, aka 'Quico,' The Llano Kid 
A Man from Wyoming
+3
as Jim Baker 
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
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as Self (archive footage) 
Fighting Caravans
+21
as Clint Belmet 
One Sunday Afternoon
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as Biff Grimes 
Return to Paradise
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as Mr. Morgan