Gary Cooper

**Gary Cooper** (born **Frank James Cooper**; May 7, 1901May 13, 1961) was an American actor. He was known for his acting style. Cooper was given five Oscar nominations for Best Actor, and won it two times, in 1941 and 1952. He was also given an Honorary Award from the Academy in 1961. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Cooper among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 11. Cooper's career went from 1925 to 1961. He had important roles in 84 movies.

## Awards and nominations

|style="width:5%;"|Year|style="width:30%;"|Award|style="width:30%;"|Category|style="width:25%;"|Film|style="width:5%;"|Result|style="width:5%;" class="unsortable"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1937|Academy Award|Best Actor|rowspan="2"|_Mr. Deeds Goes to Town_||||||||
|1937|rowspan="2"|New York Film Critics Circle Award|rowspan="2"|Best Actor||||||||
|1941|rowspan="2"|_Sergeant York_||||||||||
|1942|rowspan="3"|Academy Award|rowspan="3"|Best Actor||||||||
|1943|_The Pride of the Yankees_|||||||||||
|1944|_For Whom the Bell Tolls_|||||||||||
|1945||New York Film Critics Circle Award|Best Actor|_Along Came Jones_||||||||
|1952|Photoplay Award|Most Popular Male Star|rowspan="4"|_High Noon_||||||||
|1953|Academy Award|Best Actor||||||||||
|1953|Golden Globe Award|Best Actor||||||||||
|1953||New York Film Critics Circle Award|Best Actor|||||||||
|1957|Golden Globe Award|Best Actor|rowspan="2"|_Friendly Persuasion_||||||||
|1957||New York Film Critics Circle Award|Best Actor|||||||||
|1959|rowspan="2"|Laurel Award|rowspan="2"|Top Action Performance|_The Hanging Tree_|||||||
|1960|_They Came to Cordura_|||||||||||
|1961|Academy Award|Academy Honorary Award||||||||||

## Movies

These are where Gary Cooper had a leading role.

- _The Winning of Barbara Worth_ (1926)
- _Children of Divorce_ (1927)
- _Arizona Bound_ (1927)
- _Wings_ (1927)
- _Nevada_ (1927)
- _It_ (1927)
- _The Last Outlaw_ (1927)
- _Beau Sabreur_ (1928)
- _The Legion of the Condemned_ (1928)
- _Doomsday_ (1928)
- _Half a Bride_ (1928)
- _Lilac Time_ (1928)
- _The First Kiss_ (1928)
- _The Shopworn Angel_ (1928)
- _Wolf Song_ (1929)
- _Betrayal_ (1929)
- _The Virginian_ (1929)
- _Only the Brave_ (1930)
- _The Texan_ (1930)
- _Seven Days' Leave_ (1930)
- _A Man from Wyoming_ (1930)
- _The Spoilers_ (1930)
- _Morocco_ (1930)
- _Fighting Caravans_ (1931)
- _City Streets_ (1931)
- _I Take This Woman_ (1931)
- _His Woman_ (1931)
- _Devil and the Deep_ (1932)
- _If I Had a Million_ (1932)
- _A Farewell to Arms_ (1932)
- _Today We Live_ (1933)
- _One Sunday Afternoon_ (1933)
- _Design for Living_ (1933)
- _Alice in Wonderland_ (1933)
- _Operator 13_ (1934)
- _Now and Forever_ (1934)
- _The Lives of a Bengal Lancer_ (1935)
- _The Wedding Night_ (1935)
- _Peter Ibbetson_ (1935)
- _Desire_ (1936)
- _Mr. Deeds Goes to Town_ (1936)
- _The General Died at Dawn_ (1936)
- _The Plainsman_ (1936)
- _Souls at Sea_ (1937)
- _The Adventures of Marco Polo_ (1938)
- _Bluebeard's Eighth Wife_ (1938)
- _The Cowboy and the Lady_ (1938)
- _Beau Geste_ (1939)
- _The Real Glory_ (1939)
- _The Westerner_ (1940)
- _North West Mounted Police_ (1940)
- _Meet John Doe_ (1941)
- _Sergeant York_ (1941)
- _Ball of Fire_ (1941)
- _The Pride of the Yankees_ (1942)
- _For Whom the Bell Tolls_ (1943)
- _The Story of Dr. Wassell_ (1944)
- _Casanova Brown_ (1944)
- _Along Came Jones_ (1945)
- _Saratoga Trunk_ (1945)
- _Cloak and Dagger_ (1946)
- _Unconquered_ (1947)
- _Good Sam_ (1948)
- _The Fountainhead_ (1949)
- _Task Force_ (1949)
- _Bright Leaf_ (1950)
- _Dallas_ (1950)
- _You're in the Navy Now_ (1951)
- _It's a Big Country_ (1951)
- _Distant Drums_ (1951)
- _High Noon_ (1952)
- _Springfield Rifle_ (1952)
- _Return to Paradise_ (1953)
- _Blowing Wild_ (1953)
- _Garden of Evil_ (1954)
- _Vera Cruz_ (1954)
- _The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell_ (1955)
- _Friendly Persuasion_ (1956)
- _Love in the Afternoon_ (1957)
- _Ten North Frederick_ (1958)
- _Man of the West_ (1958)
- _The Hanging Tree_ (1959)
- _They Came to Cordura_ (1959)
- _The Wreck of the Mary Deare_ (1959)
- _The Naked Edge_ (1961)

## Radio

|Date|Program|Episode/source|
| --- | --- | --- |
|April 7, 1935|_Lux Radio Theatre_|_The Prince Chap_|
|February 1, 1937|_Lux Radio Theatre_|_Mr. Deeds Goes To Town_|
|May 2, 1938|_Lux Radio Theatre_|_The Prisoner Of Shark Island_|
|September 23, 1940|_Lux Radio Theatre_|_The Westerner_|
|September 28, 1941|_Screen Guild Theater_|_Meet John Doe_|
|April 20, 1942|_Lux Radio Theatre_|_North West Mounted Police_|
|October 4, 1943|_Lux Radio Theatre_|_The Pride Of The Yankees_|
|October 23, 1944|_Lux Radio Theatre_|_The Story Of Dr. Wassell_|
|December 11, 1944|_Lux Radio Theatre_|_Casanova Brown_|
|February 12, 1945|_Lux Radio Theatre_|_For Whom The Bell Tolls_|

## Other websites

- The Gary Cooper Pages
- Find-A-Grave profile for Gary Cooper
- Photographs of Gary Cooper

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Gary Cooper
- **image**: Gary Cooper (1952).jpg
- **alt**: Photo of Gary Cooper
- **caption**: Cooper in 1952
- **birth name**: Frank James Cooper
- **birth place**: Helena, Montana, U.S.
- **death place**: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **resting place**: Basilica of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Southampton, New York), Sacred Hearts Cemetery, New York, U.S.
- **other names**: Coop
- **occupation**: Actor
- **party**: Republican Party (United States), Republican
- **years active**: 1925–1961
- **parents**: Charles H. Cooper
Alice Cooper
- **family**: Cedric Gibbons (uncle-in-law)
- **children**: 1
- **signature**: Gary Cooper signature.svg