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Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper was an American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper at number 11 on its list of the 50 greatest screen legends. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Sergeant York (1941) and High Noon (1952) and an Academy Honorary Award in 1961.
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Born 7 May 1901 · Died 13 May 1961 · Q93957
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2026· 2 entries
“It was Sergeant Alvin York who won this award. Shucks, I”
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2025· 1 entry
IndieWire: Southampton Playhouse Announces Annual Gary Cooper Festival
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Diabelli Variations”.
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Mozart - Three Piano Quartets K478, K493 & K452”.
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “Late Piano Works”.
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Released album “Six Suites for Solo Cello - Three Sonatas for viola da gamba & harpsichord”.
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Released album “Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Volumes 7 & 8”.
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Volume 6”.
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Released album “Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Volume 5”.
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Volume 4”.
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Volume 3”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Volume 2”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Volume 1”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “14 Silver Strings – Toccatas, Partitas and Dances”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “The Monthes”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Le Mariage forcé / Les Fous divertissants”.
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1966· 1 entry
Cooper was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City
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1961· 8 entries
Posthumously received the David di Donatello Special Award in Italy for his career achievements
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Died 1961-05-13.
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Cooper was awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters in recognition of his significant contribution to the arts
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Cooper said, "I know that what is happening is God's will
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Cooper attended a dinner given in his honor and hosted by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin at the Friars Club
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“In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.”
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“I know that what is happening is God”
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Irene committed suicide by jumping from the 11th floor of the Knickerbocker Hotel, after telling Doris Day of her grief over Cooper's death
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1960· 3 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1960).
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Underwent surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as the cancer metastasized to his colon
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Cooper was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6243 Hollywood Boulevard for his contribution to the film industry
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1959· 1 entry
Before a small group of family and friends at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills
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1958· 1 entry
Appeared in Anthony Mann's Western drama Man of the West (1958) with Julie London and Lee J
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1957· 1 entry
Cooper appeared in Philip Dunne's romantic drama Ten North Frederick, based on the novel by John O'Hara
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1956· 2 entries
Cooper was more effective playing a gentle Indiana Quaker in William Wyler's Civil War drama Friendly Persuasion with Dorothy McGuire
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To make Billy Wilder's romantic comedy Love in the Afternoon with Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier
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1954· 1 entry
Cooper appeared in Henry Hathaway's Western drama Garden of Evil, about three soldiers of fortune in Mexico hired to rescue a woman's husband
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1953· 3 entries
Cooper accompanied his wife and daughter, who were devout Catholics, to Rome, where they had an audience with Pope Pius XII
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for High Noon (1953).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for High Noon (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Cooper, Glenn Ford, Adolphe Menjou, and John Wayne supported Robert A
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1951· 2 entries
When Cooper moved out of their home
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While making High Noon, Cooper befriended the film's screenwriter, Carl Foreman, who had been a member of the Communist Party
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1948· 2 entries
After making Leo McCarey's romantic comedy Good Sam, Cooper sold his company to Universal Studios and signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros
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After finishing work on The Fountainhead, Cooper began an affair with Patricia Neal, his co-star
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1947· 1 entry
Cooper was subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and asked whether he had observed any "communistic influence" in Hollywood
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1946· 1 entry
Was Fritz Lang's romantic thriller Cloak and Dagger, about a mild-mannered physics professor recruited by the Office of Strategic Services during the last years of World War II to investigate the German atomic-bomb progr
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1945· 1 entry
Cooper starred in and produced Stuart Heisler's Western comedy Along Came Jones for International
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1944· 2 entries
Cooper campaigned for Thomas E
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Cooper appeared in Cecil B
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1942· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Sergeant York (1942).
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Was also his last under his Goldwyn contract
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1939· 1 entry
Hemingway had drawn upon Cooper's image in creating the character Robert Jordan in his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls
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1938· 1 entry
Appeared in Archie Mayo's biographical film The Adventures of Marco Polo
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1937· 1 entry
Henry Hathaway's adventure film Souls at Sea
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1935· 2 entries
Cooper appeared in two Henry Hathaway films: the melodrama Peter Ibbetson with Ann Harding, about a man caught up in a dream world created by his love for a childhood sweetheart, and the adventure film The Lives of a Ben
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Cooper was lent to Samuel Goldwyn Productions to appear in King Vidor's romance film The Wedding Night with Anna Sten, who was being groomed as "another Garbo"
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1934· 1 entry
Cooper was lent out to MGM for the Civil War drama film Operator 13 with Marion Davies, about a beautiful Union spy who falls in love with a Confederate soldier
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1933· 1 entry
After making Today We Live with Joan Crawford and One Sunday Afternoon with Fay Wray, Cooper appeared in the Ernst Lubitsch comedy film Design for Living, based on the successful Noël Coward play
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1932· 1 entry
After completing Devil and the Deep with Tallulah Bankhead to fulfill his old contract, Cooper appeared in A Farewell to Arms, the first film adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway novel
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1930· 1 entry
And with Carole Lombard while making I Take This Woman in 1931
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1929· 2 entries
While filming The Wolf Song, Cooper began an intense affair with Lupe Vélez, the most important romance of his early life
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Playing the lead role in his first talking picture, The Virginian (1929), which was directed by Victor Fleming and co-starred Mary Brian and Walter Huston
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1928· 1 entry
Had a relationship with another experienced actress, Evelyn Brent, whom he met while filming Beau Sabreur
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1927· 2 entries
With help from Clara Bow, Cooper landed high-profile roles in Children of Divorce and Wings (both 1927), the latter being the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture
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With Clara Bow, who advanced his career by helping him get one of his first leading roles in Children of Divorce
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1926· 1 entry
Cooper signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn Productions for $50 a week
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1924· 1 entry
And Herbert Hoover in 1928 and 1932, and campaigned for Wendell Willkie in 1940
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1922· 1 entry
To continue his art education, Cooper enrolled in Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa
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1920· 1 entry
Cooper took three art courses at Montana Agricultural College (now Montana State University) in Bozeman
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1919· 1 entry
His father arranged for his son to attend Gallatin County High School in Bozeman, where English teacher Ida Davis encouraged him to focus on academics and participate in debating and dramatics
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1918· 1 entry
And returned to the family ranch to work full-time as a cowboy
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1909· 1 entry
To enroll them in Dunstable Grammar School in Dunstable, England
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1906· 1 entry
Charles purchased the 600-acre (240 ha) Seven-Bar-Nine cattle ranch, about fifty miles (80 km) north of Helena, near Craig
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1901· 2 entries
In Helena, Montana, the younger of two sons of English immigrant parents Alice (née Brazier) and Charles Henry Cooper
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Born 1901-05-07.
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