Gary Cooper's biography

Frank James Cooper is 60 years old film actor born at Helena. He was born on Tuesday 7th of May 1901. He is often nicknamed as Coop, Studs, The Montana Mule, Cowboy Cooper, Gary Cooper, Garry Cooper. According to year of birth 1901 Gary belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 7th of May means he is Taurus. Taurus is most stable sign of Zodiac, that is the reason it is also included in the earthy sign of the Zodiac Belt. One born with this Moon Sign (Not a Rising Sign) is very stable and balanced through their mind.

Gary is native english speaker. He is white american. He is citizen of United States of America. Gary is roman catholic. Gary´s primary profession is to be film actor. You can know Gary also as screenwriter, television actor. Gary is recently known as actor. He received Academy Award for Best Actor Sergeant York in 1941

Gary Cooper's dad

Gary Cooper's father's name is Charles Henry Cooper.

Gary Cooper's mom

Gary Cooper's mother's name is Alice Cooper. She is known as actor. Gary´s mother was born on Wednesday 10th of September 1873 in Sheerness. Gary Cooper was born when she was 28 years old. His mother died on Sunday 1st of October 1967 in Palm Desert. Alice Cooper was 66 years old, when this happened.

Gary Cooper's family

Gary Cooper's ex wife

Sandra Shaw

Gary Cooper and Sandra Shaw have been together since 1933 for 28 years. She is known as actor. His ex wife was born on Tuesday 27th of May 1913 in Brooklyn. His ex wife died on Wednesday 16th of February 2000 in Southampton. Sandra Shaw was 99 years old, when this happened.

Gary Cooper's schools

We found 3 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Grinnell College, Helena High School, Gallatin County High School.

Detailed informations about his schools

Gary studied high school - Gallatin Valley High School in Bozeman, Montana.

He studied university - Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa.

Gary Cooper's career

His main focus is to be film actor. He is famous thanks to High Noon. You could see him also in Sergeant York.

Is Gary Cooper gay ?

Gary is known to be straight.

How did Gary Cooper die

Gary died on on Saturday 13th of May 1961 when he was 60 years old at Beverly Hills. Gary Coopers death was caused by prostate cancer. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Gary Cooper's Awards

He received award for Academy Award for Best Actor for work Sergeant York in 1941
Gary received award for Academy Award for Best Actor for work High Noon in 1952
Gary received award for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for work High Noon in 1953

Gary Cooper's Rankings

His Oscar-winning roles as Will Kane from High Noon (1952) and Sgt. Alvin York from Sergeant York (1941) were ranked #5 and #35 in the American Film Institute's Heroes list in their 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains.

Gary Cooper's Nominations

Gary was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor for work Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in 1936
Gary was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
Gary was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor
Gary was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor

What else you don't know about Gary Cooper ?

His middle name is James. He likes to spend time in: Sun Valley, Idaho.

What Gary Cooper has done for a first time

Along with MylÃ¨ne Demongeot, Cooper set in motion the first escalator to be installed in a cinema, at the Rex Theatre in Paris on June 7 1957.
Appeared in four movies with Fay Wray, The First Kiss (1928), The Legion of the Condemned (1928), The Texan (1930), One Sunday Afternoon (1933).
His shot from High Noon (1952) was used as a Solidarity candidates trademark of the first independent elections in Poland in June 1989 ("There's a new sheriff in town")
Born Frank Cooper, he changed his first name to Gary at the suggestion of his agent, Nan Collins, whose hometown was Gary, Indiana.
His first starring role was in The Virginian in 1929.

Gary Cooper's quotes

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.
If you hit the mark with two out of every five movies you'll keep the wheels of the cycle turning.
To get folks to like you, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fellow who answered the description of a right guy.
People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.
[in 1931] I haven't read a half a dozen books in my life.
Nan Collins, my manager, came from Gary, Indiana, and suggested I adopt that name. She felt it was more exciting than Frank. I figured I'd give it a try. Good thing she didn't come from Poughkeepsie.
The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
[on Sergeant York (1941)] I liked the role because I was portraying a good, sound American character.
You've got to have a fire under you, and when you're beginning, you've got one all the time. After you get established, you have to create your own fire, and it's never easy.
All this business about me never saying anything is a piece of crap.
Naturalness is hard to talk about, but I guess it boils down to this: You find out what people expect of your type of character and then you give them what they want. That way an actor never seems unnatural or affected no matter what role he plays.
[on Cary Grant] I say he's a crack comedian, and isn't competition for me at all.
I've had lines on my face since I was twenty. Wind and sun put them there.
In my whole life I've never had a woman so much in love with me as Ingrid Bergman was. The day after the picture [For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) ended, I couldn't get her on the phone.
[after Clark Gable ended up with the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939)] "Gone with the Wind" is going to be the biggest flop in history.
[October 1947] I have turned down quite a few scripts because I thought they were tinged with Communistic ideas.
[1960] Nothing I've done lately, the past eight years or so, has been especially worthwhile. I've been coasting along. Some of the pictures I've made recently I'm genuinely sorry about. Either I did a sloppy job in them, or the story wasn't right.
[1952] I like and admire Carl Foreman and am delighted to be in business with him.
Naturally, the nearer the character you play comes to the character you are, the more authenticity you give it. You are not acting so much as being. The result is realism.
Movie acting is a pretty silly business for a man because it takes less training, less ability and less brains to be successful in it than any other business I can think of.
Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.
[October 1947] I feel very strongly that actors haven't any business at all to shoot their faces off about things I know we know very little about.
[following a 1943 USO tour to New Guinea] There's no coin in Hollywood, rich as it is, that can pay a fellow the way I've been paid for my little effort on behalf of the G.I.s out there. It was the greatest emotional experience of my life.
[to Robert Taylor after both had appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947] I got a much bigger hand than you did.
(at a Friars Club testimonial dinner in 1961) If you asked me if I'm the luckiest guy in the world, all I can say is, "Yup".
[on Rio Bravo (1959)] It's so phony, nobody believes in it.
Once in a while I like a good western. Gives me a chance to shoot off guns.
I started pictures in the silent days and I took every job that came my way. Often I worked 18 hours steady. I got myself into such a run-down condition that I weighed only 148 pounds, and I'm six feet two.

Gary Cooper's height, weight, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Gary Cooper looks. We will focus on his height, weight, body shape, eye color and hair color. Gary is tall as 6' 3" (191 cm). Gary weights 175lbs (79 kg). Body build is athletic. Gary´s eyes are tinted blue. Gary´s hair is shade of brown - light.

Gary Cooper