Gary Cooper was an American actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, as well as receiving an Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements in 1961. Cooper’s career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included leading roles in 84 feature films. American Film Institute ranked Cooper at No. 11 on its list of the 25 greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
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Gary Cooper was an American actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, as well as receiving an Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements in 1961. Cooper’s career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included leading roles in 84 feature films. American Film Institute ranked Cooper at No. 11 on its list of the 25 greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Cooper portrayed a new type of hero—a champion of the common man—in films such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Meet John Doe, Sergeant York, The Pride of the Yankees, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. In his final films, he played non-violent characters searching for redemption in films like Friendly Persuasion and Man of the West. Cooper was born in Helena, Montana, on May 7, 1901, the youngest of two sons of English parents Alice and Charles Henry Cooper. His father came from Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, and became a prominent lawyer, rancher, and Montana Supreme Court justice. His mother hailed from Gillingham, Kent, and married Charles in Montana. Cooper and his brother spent their summers at the ranch and learned to ride horses, hunt, and fish. He studied Latin, French, and English history at Dunstable until 1912. In 1922, he enrolled in Grinnell College in Iowa, where he took three art courses.
He did most academically in his final year of high school, and his art work still hangs in the state capitol building in Helena. Cooper later called his teacher Ida Davis “the woman partly responsible for giving up cowboying and going to college in Bozeman, Montana” He was married to his longtime girlfriend, Barbara Cooper, until his death in 1973. He was the father of three children, one of whom died in a car accident in 1998. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and two sons, Gary and Arthur. Cooper is buried in the town of Helena, near his childhood home, the Seven-Bar-Nine cattle ranch. He also had a son, Arthur Cooper, who was also a cowboy, and a daughter, Laura Cooper. Cooper died in 2011. He died of cancer at the age of 83. He had a daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and Gary Cooper, both of whom are still living in Montana, and their son, Gary Cooper Jr., is also a former cowboy. Cooper also had an adopted son, David Cooper, and an adopted daughter, Mary Cooper, of whom he was a former rodeo rider. Cooper had three sons, David and Gary, who died in 2010. Cooper has a son and daughter-in law, David, who is also an actor. He has two grandchildren, Gary, Gary Jr. and Laura Cooper, Jr., and a stepson, David “Gary” Cooper, III.
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