Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

May 7, 1901 · 125 years old

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…

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46 titles
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High Noon

High Noon

1952 · 1h 25m · Movie

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon tr...

7.9
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936 · 1h 55m · Movie

A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

7.8
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Sergeant York

Sergeant York

1941 · 2h 14m · Movie

A Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.

7.7
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Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon

1957 · 2h 10m · Movie

A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.

7.1
5
Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe

1941 · 2h 2m · Movie

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

7.6
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Wings

Wings

1927 · 2h 24m · Movie

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

7.5
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Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire

1941 · 1h 51m · Movie

A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.

7.7
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Vera Cruz

Vera Cruz

1954 · 1h 34m · Movie

During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emperor Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.

7.0
9
The Pride of the Yankees

The Pride of the Yankees

1942 · 2h 8m · Movie

The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.

7.6
10
The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

1949 · 1h 54m · Movie

An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

7.0
11
For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1943 · 2h 50m · Movie

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

6.8
12
Man of the West

Man of the West

1958 · 1h 40m · Movie

A reformed outlaw becomes stranded after an aborted train robbery with two other passengers and is forced to rejoin his old outlaw band.

7.0
13
Design for Living

Design for Living

1933 · 1h 31m · Movie

A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.

7.4
14
Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion

1956 · 2h 17m · Movie

The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.

7.3
15
Morocco

Morocco

1930 · 1h 32m · Movie

A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

7.0
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A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

1932 · 1h 20m · Movie

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.

6.4
17
The Westerner

The Westerner

1940 · 1h 40m · Movie

Judge Roy Bean, a self-appointed hanging judge in Vinegarroon, Texas, befriends saddle tramp Cole Harden, who opposes Bean's policy against homesteaders.

7.3
18
Beau Geste

Beau Geste

1939 · 1h 52m · Movie

Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire.

7.5
19
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

1938 · 1h 25m · Movie

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

7.2
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Garden of Evil

Garden of Evil

1954 · 1h 40m · Movie

A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in Apache territory.

6.6
21
Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger

1946 · 1h 46m · Movie

In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.

6.6
22
Desire

Desire

1936 · 1h 35m · Movie

An automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain meets a sultry jewel thief.

7.1
23
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935 · 1h 49m · Movie

Three British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy - and themselves.

7.0
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959 · 1h 45m · Movie

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.

6.7
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Unconquered

Unconquered

1947 · 2h 26m · Movie

Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.

6.8
26
Peter Ibbetson

Peter Ibbetson

1935 · 1h 25m · Movie

A Victorian-era architect commissioned by the Duke of Towers to design his stables falls in love with the Duchess.

6.9
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Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

1933 · 1h 16m · Movie

In Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by fantastical characters.

6.3
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The Plainsman

The Plainsman

1936 · 1h 53m · Movie

Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody attempt to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.

6.8
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Along Came Jones

Along Came Jones

1945 · 1h 30m · Movie

A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.

6.5
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The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955 · 1h 40m · Movie

A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.

6.8
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Springfield Rifle

Springfield Rifle

1952 · 1h 33m · Movie

Major Lex Kearney becomes the North's first counterespionage agent as he tries to discover who's behind the theft of Union cavalry horses in Colorado during the Civil War.

6.6
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If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million

1932 · 1h 28m · Movie

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

6.9
33
City Streets

City Streets

1931 · 1h 23m · Movie

Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.

7.0
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North West Mounted Police

North West Mounted Police

1940 · 2h 6m · Movie

In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.

6.3
35
Casanova Brown

Casanova Brown

1944 · 1h 34m · Movie

In this hilarious romantic comedy, Gary Cooper gets a lesson in diapers and formula after stealing his child from his ex-wife (Teresa Wright), who was planning to give her up for adoption.

6.2
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Blowing Wild

Blowing Wild

1953 · 1h 30m · Movie

In South America, after Jeff Dawson and Dutch Peterson's oil rigs are dynamited by local bandits, the two partners resort to risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise money.

6.4