"""Sergeant York"" became the top-grossing film of the year and was nominated for eleven Academy Awards. Accepting his first Academy Award for Best Actor from his friend James Stewart, Cooper said, ""It was Sergeant Alvin York who won this award. Shucks, I've been in the business sixteen years and sometimes dreamed I might get one of these. That's all I can say ... Funny when I was dreaming I always made a better speech."" Cooper concluded the year back at Goldwyn with Howard Hawks to make the romantic comedy ""Ball of Fire"" with Barbara Stanwyck. In the film, Cooper plays"
"until 1975. At its peak, Bull Farm was one of the largest in the area with its 6,150 acres. In 1939, the Bull Farm was used in the filming of ""The Westerner"", starring Gary Cooper. During World War II, in late 1944, the United States Army established a prisoner of war camp for German POWs next to the farm. Camp Continental, as it was called, was built to house 250 inmates and forty guards. Because of a labor shortage caused by the war, the prisoners were put to work in the nearby fields. Although very little is known about the"
"married and having rebuilt the burned farm, watch as new settlers arrive to the territory. When Gary Cooper learned that Walter Brennan would be playing the part of Judge Roy Bean, he tried to back out of the film, believing his character would be reduced to a relatively minor role. Although Goldwyn assured Cooper that his role would be expanded, Cooper remained unconvinced, writing to Samuel Goldwyn, ""I couldn't see that it needed Gary Cooper for the part."" Goldwyn remained adamant, though, about Cooper's contractual obligations and insisted that he star in the film. In a formal letter to Goldwyn"
"in Warsaw during the early days of the Russo-Polish conflict; she had provided him with food, books and blankets, when he was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1920 and sent to work in a prison camp. ""Grass"" depicts the annual migration of the ""Bakhtiari"", an Iranian tribe who herded their livestock through snow-bound mountain passes, under conditions of great hardship, to reach high altitude summer grasslands and then return to lower elevations for the winter. In this movie, Harrison appears as herself – a reporter. Cooper's co-producer, Ernest B. Schoedsack, opined years later in a tape-recorded news interview (and"
"Fighting Caravans Fighting Caravans is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film directed by Otto Brower and David Burton and starring Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, and Ernest Torrence. Based on the 1929 novel ""Fighting Caravans"" by Zane Grey, the film is about a young frontier scout who helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try to save him from falling in love. Although billed as being based on the Zane Grey novel, the stories have little in common. The film was actually written by Agnes Brand Leahy, Edward"
"A Man from Wyoming A Man from Wyoming is a 1930 American Pre-Code war romance film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Gary Cooper, June Collyer, and Regis Toomey. Written by Albert S. Le Vino and John V.A. Weaver, the film is about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married. After the United States enters World War"
"of a Bengal Lancer"" (1935). During the height of his career, Cooper portrayed a new type of hero—a champion of the common man—in films such as ""Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"" (1936), ""Meet John Doe"" (1941), ""Sergeant York"" (1941), ""The Pride of the Yankees"" (1942), and ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" (1943). In the postwar years, he portrayed more mature characters at odds with the world in films such as ""The Fountainhead"" (1949) and ""High Noon"" (1952). In his final films, Cooper played non-violent characters searching for redemption in films such as ""Friendly Persuasion"" (1956) and ""Man of the West"""
"Garden of Evil Garden of Evil (1954) is a Western film, directed by Henry Hathaway, about three somewhat disreputable 19th-century soldiers of fortune, played by Gary Cooper as an ex-lawman, Richard Widmark as a gambler, and Cameron Mitchell as a bounty hunter, who are randomly hired by a woman, portrayed by Susan Hayward, to rescue her husband (Hugh Marlowe). Rita Moreno appears at the beginning of the film as a Mexican cantina singer/dancer. The picture was shot on location in mountains, villages and jungle of western Mexico except for interiors in Mexico City. En route to California to prospect for"
"High Noon High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper. The plot, depicted in real time, centers around a town marshal who is torn between his sense of duty and love for his new bride and who must face a gang of killers alone. Though mired in controversy with political overtones at the time of its release, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four (Actor, Editing, Music-Score, and Music-Song) as well as four Golden Globe Awards (Actor, Supporting"
"were asked to select which film they wanted to see most, having been told by the Vichy government that soon no more American films would be allowed in France, the overwhelming majority chose it over all others. To a France soon to be invaded and occupied by Nazi forces, the film most expressed the ""perseverance of democracy and the American way."" In 1941 Capra directed ""Meet John Doe"" (1941), which some consider Capra's most controversial movie. The film's hero, played by Gary Cooper, is a former baseball player now bumming around, lacking goals. He is selected by a news reporter"
"For Whom the Bell Tolls (film) For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 American war film produced and directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, and Joseph Calleia. The screenwriter Dudley Nichols based his script on the 1940 novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" by American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The film is about an American International Brigades volunteer, Robert Jordan (Cooper), who is fighting in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists. During his desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge to protect Republican forces, Jordan falls in love with a young"
"as a closeted homophobic Marine Corps colonel in ""American Beauty"", a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. To get into character, Cooper said he ""depended on a friend who’d fought in Vietnam. I asked him to go deep. What would this man have done? What would be on his walls? On his desk?"" In 2000, Cooper played Colonel Harry Burwell (inspired by Lieutenant Colonel Henry ""Light Horse Harry"" Lee) in ""The Patriot"". He was nominated for another Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting"
"for movie roles. In his own estimation, Tucker was in the mold of large ""ugly guys"" such as Wallace Beery, Ward Bond and Victor McLaglen, rather than a matinee idol. His debut was as a powerfully built farmer who clashes with the hero in ""The Westerner"" (1940), which starred Gary Cooper. Tucker stood out in a fight scene with Cooper. Tucker had a support role in ""The Great Awakening"" (1941) for United Artists. Overcoming a feeling in Hollywood that fair hair did not photograph well, he quickly attained leading man status, starring in PRC's ""Emergency Landing"" (1941). He signed a"
"The Plainsman The Plainsman is a 1936 American Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. The film presents a highly fictionalized account of the adventures and relationships between Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, and General George Custer, with a gun-runner named Lattimer (Charles Bickford) as the main villain. The film is notorious for mixing timelines and even has an opening scene with Abraham Lincoln setting the stage for Hickok's adventures. Anthony Quinn has a role as an Indian. A remake using the same title was released in 1966. With the"
"fight for. According to Cooper, the Ori warriors are a fictional mirror of the events in the real world, but he wanted people to try and understand ""why people want to go to war with us, or blow up our buildings, or our airplanes"". Cooper also wanted to show that ""there's really no winner to the argument"" when it comes to ""religion and belief, and gods""; according to Cooper, there is a line when a society takes up arms instead of finding a more civilized way of dialogue. Tim Guinee played Tomin, a devout Ori follower of the village of"
"films, he played the young naive hero sure of his moral position and trusting in the triumph of simple virtues (""The Virginian""). After becoming a major star, his Western screen persona was replaced by a more cautious hero in adventure films and dramas (""A Farewell to Arms""). During the height of his career, from 1936–43, he played a new type of hero—a champion of the common man willing to sacrifice himself for others (""Mr. Deeds"", ""Meet John Doe"", and ""For Whom the Bell Tolls""). In the post-war years, Cooper attempted broader variations on his screen image, which now reflected a"
"Springfield Rifle (film) Springfield Rifle is a western film, directed by Andre DeToth and released by Warner Bros. Pictures in 1952. The film is set during the American Civil War and stars Gary Cooper, with Phyllis Thaxter and Lon Chaney Jr.. It is described as ""essentially an espionage thriller that pits a Union intelligence officer (Gary Cooper) against a Confederate spy ring."" A confederate spy has been informing rustlers about the timing and route of horse herds being driven by the Union Army, enabling the herds to be seized. Charged with cowardice when he abandons such a herd in the"
"was unlikely that Pershing was involved in or had ordered others to commit religiously insulting acts, and that the episode in ""The Real Glory"" had probably fuelled the myth. This claim concerning bullets dipped in pigs' blood was referred to by Donald Trump in a presidential campaign speech in February 2016 and in a tweet following the terrorist attacks in Barcelona on August 17, 2017. The Real Glory The Real Glory is a 1939 Samuel Goldwyn Productions action film starring Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds and Broderick Crawford released by United Artists in the weeks immediately following Nazi Germany's"
"acting as a teenager. At the age of eighteen, he made his professional stage debut in a production at Stratford-upon-Avon. His budding acting career was interrupted by his military service in the Scottish regiment during the First World War, in which he was captured on the Western Front and held prisoner by the Germans for a brief time. After the war, Cooper resumed his stage career, appearing in numerous stage productions, including ""The Farmer's Wife"", ""Back to Methuselah"", ""The Third Finger"" and ""Journey's End"". He transitioned to film work in the early 1930s, appearing in ""Black Coffee"" (1931) with Austin"
"of the year's top ten pictures and received eleven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Cooper's third). Soon after the publication of Ernest Hemingway's novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"", Paramount paid $150,000 for the film rights with the express intent of casting Cooper in the lead role of Robert Jordan, an American explosives expert who fights alongside the Republican loyalists during the Spanish Civil War. The original director, Cecil B. DeMille, was replaced by Sam Wood who brought in Dudley Nichols for the screenplay. After the start of principal photography in the Sierra Nevada in late"
"is playing cards with the henchmen. The film ends with a heart-broken Calamity Jane cradling Hickok's body. Cavalry soldier extras and unit horses were period costumed members of the 115th Cavalry, Wyoming National guard which was still a horse cavalry unit from 1922 to 1941. Parts of the film were shot in Kanab Canyon, Kanab movie fort, and Paria, Utah. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Plainsman The Plainsman is a 1936 American Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. The film presents a highly fictionalized account"
"which plays over the closing credits. Cooper is played by James Nesbitt, himself a Protestant from Northern Ireland. In recognition of the role his book played in achieving the new Bloody Sunday Inquiry, his book's role as inspiration for the movie, and the fact that he was a schoolboy witness to the tragedy, Don Mullan was asked by director Paul Greengrass to appear in the film as a Bogside Priest. A number of the military characters were played by ex-members of the British Army, including Simon Mann. Gerry Donaghy was played by Declan Duddy, nephew of Jackie Duddy, one of"
"- a century after the time of the plot. Unconquered Unconquered is a 1947 adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard. It was released by Paramount Pictures. The film depicts the violent struggles between American colonists and Native Americans on the western frontier in the mid-18th century during the time of Pontiac's Rebellion, primarily around Fort Pitt (modern-day Pittsburgh). The supporting cast features Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway, Ward Bond, Howard Da Silva, Virginia Campbell, Katherine DeMille, C. Aubrey Smith and Mike Mazurki. Based on Neil Swanson's ""Unconquered, a Novel of the"
"who retreats to his family's New England farm where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful Polish neighbor. Cooper delivered a performance of surprising range and depth, according to biographer Larry Swindell. Despite receiving generally favorable reviews, the film was not popular with American audiences, who may have been offended by the film's depiction of an extramarital affair and its tragic ending. That same year, 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"
"They Came to Cordura They Came to Cordura is a 1959 Western film co-written and directed by Robert Rossen, starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth, and featuring Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Michael Callan, and Dick York. It was based on a 1958 novel by Glendon Swarthout. In 1916, as U.S. soldiers chase after Pancho Villa, Army Major Thomas Thorn (Gary Cooper) is assigned to be a battlefield observer and reward heroism. He has been suggested for this duty by a Colonel Rogers (Robert Keith), who is 63 years old and impatiently yearning to be promoted to general before"
"a percent of the profits, and ended up making $600,000. Cooper's understated performance was widely praised, and earned him his second Academy Award for Best Actor. After appearing in André de Toth's Civil War drama ""Springfield Rifle"" (1952)—a standard Warner Bros. film that was overshadowed by the success of its predecessor—Cooper made four films outside the United States. In Mark Robson's drama ""Return to Paradise"" (1953), Cooper plays an American wanderer who liberates the inhabitants of a Polynesian island from the puritanical rule of a misguided pastor. Cooper endured spartan living conditions, long hours, and ill health during the three-month"
"broadcast on February 11, 1945, which retained the principal cast from the film: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, and Akim Tamiroff. For Whom the Bell Tolls (film) For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 American war film produced and directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, and Joseph Calleia. The screenwriter Dudley Nichols based his script on the 1940 novel ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"" by American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The film is about an American International Brigades volunteer, Robert Jordan (Cooper), who is fighting in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists. During his"
"the affections of a beautiful woman — was singled out for its versatility and revealed his genuine ability to do light comedy. Cooper changed his name legally to ""Gary Cooper"" in August 1933. In 1934, Cooper was loaned 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. Despite Richard Boleslawski's imaginative direction and George J. Folsey's lavish cinematography, the film did poorly at the box office. Back at Paramount, Cooper appeared in his first of seven films by director Henry Hathaway, ""Now"
"actor Gary Cooper, to see his animals, watch Nelson wrestle alligators, and buy souvenirs. With his new fame came notoriety. He was known locally as the ""Tarzan of the Loxahatchee"", and cared for the locals' exotic pets. He would trap troublesome wild animals, and provided others for parties and events. Rumors were started about his handsomeness, his eating habits (Bessie DuBois denied he ate raw possum), and his romantic exploits. It was told that he courted heiresses and countesses from wealthy Palm Beach, and that one conquest was a direct descendant of President James Monroe. Nelson finally married in 1940"
"as many as 725 natives from five different Indian tribes. He also obtained 185 wagons, 1,800 cows, 1,400 horses, 500 buffalos and 700 chickens, pigs and dogs for the production of the film. Walsh offered the lead to actor Gary Cooper, who couldn't accept it. According to John Ford's later account, Walsh supposedly then asked Ford for casting suggestions, whereupon Ford recommended a then-unknown named John Wayne because he ""liked the looks of this new kid with a funny walk, like he owned the world"". When Wayne professed inexperience, Walsh told him to just ""sit good on a horse and"
"about his long career as a naval aviator and his role in the development of aircraft carriers. Cooper's performance and the Technicolor newsreel footage supplied by the United States Navy made the film one of Cooper's most popular during this period. In the next two years, Cooper made four poorly received films: Michael Curtiz' period drama ""Bright Leaf"" (1950), Stuart Heisler's Western melodrama ""Dallas"" (1950), Henry Hathaway's wartime comedy ""You're in the Navy Now"" (1951), and Raoul Walsh's Western action film ""Distant Drums"" (1951). Cooper's most important film during the post-war years was Fred Zinnemann's Western drama ""High Noon"" (1952)"
"front lines."" Similar sentiments were expressed by ""USA Today"" Claudia Puig who asserted: ""It's clearly Cooper's show. Substantially bulked up and affecting a believable Texas drawl, Cooper embodies Kyle's confidence, intensity and vulnerability."" ""American Sniper"" earned $547 million worldwide to become Cooper's highest-grossing live-action film and the third highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Cooper won an MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor; the film was nominated for Best Picture. With these nominations, Cooper became the tenth actor in history to receive an Academy Award nomination for acting in"
"Cooper sings the song 'I'm a poor lonesome cowboy', which would later be used as the signature song of Lucky Luke in the eponymous comics series by René Goscinny and Morris. Along Came Jones (film) Along Came Jones is a 1945 Western comedy film starring Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, and Dan Duryea, in which Cooper mercilessly spoofs his own slow-talking cowboy persona. The movie was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the novel ""Useless Cowboy"" by Alan Le May, and directed by Stuart Heisler. Much of the movie was shot at the widely filmed Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth,"