Cast: Gary Cooper

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gary Cooper. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


High Noon

1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gary Cooper · Grace Kelly · Thomas Mitchell · Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis High Noon (1952) follows Marshal Will Kane, who prepares to retire and leave Hadleyville with his new bride. However, on his wedding day, he learns that a dangerous outlaw he once brought to justice is returning on the noon train,...

8.1

26K votes

8.1

26K votes

Ball of Fire

1941 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Oskar Homolka · Henry Travers

Synopsis In Ball of Fire (1941), a group of professors working on an encyclopedia encounter Sugarpuss O'Shea, a vivacious nightclub singer on the run from the law. She takes refuge with them, bringing chaos and charm into their sheltered academic world....

7.9

6K votes

7.9

6K votes

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · George Bancroft · Lionel Stander

Synopsis When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a twenty million dollar inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist (Jean Arthur). Suddenly, he becomes the target of ruthless businessmen and relatives.

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

The Fountainhead

1949 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Gary Cooper · Patricia Neal · Raymond Massey · Kent Smith

Synopsis The Fountainhead (1949) follows architect Howard Roark, a visionary who refuses to compromise his artistic integrity despite societal pressures. Facing opposition from traditionalists and opportunists, Roark struggles to uphold his modernist ideals in a world that favors conformity. His relentless...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

Meet John Doe

1941 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide Christmas Eve because he's tired of how people have forgotten each other. Barbara Stanwyck stars...

7.6

6K votes

7.6

6K votes

Beau Geste

1939 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gary Cooper · Ray Milland · Robert Preston · Brian Donlevy

Synopsis BEAU GESTE begins with a framed scene of a mounted column approaching Fort Zinderneuf in the desert of French Morocco. No one answers Colonel de Beaujolais's signal. Someone fires shots at his feet. When he points out that the troopers...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

1938 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Gary Cooper · Claudette Colbert · David Niven · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Michael Brandon is a spoilt millionaire who has had seven wives, all attracted to his fortune. Visiting a shop in the Riviera, he meets and is rebuffed by Nicole de Loiselle, the daughter of impoverished French parents with noble origins....

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

The Westerner

1940 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · Doris Davenport · Fred Stone

Synopsis "Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief", Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him as he empties all of his coins on the bar...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Hanging Tree

1959 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Gary Cooper · Maria Schell · Karl Malden · Ben Piazza

Synopsis Gary Cooper stars as a mysterious frontier doctor, Joe Frail, in THE HANGING TREE. When a blind and ailing Swiss girl, Elizabeth Mahler, is placed under his care, Frail treats her, and then falls for her. However, it's not long...

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes

Love in the Afternoon

1957 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Gary Cooper · Audrey Hepburn · Maurice Chevalier · John McGiver

Synopsis Ariane Chavasse (Hepburn) is the daughter of a private detective (Maurice Chevalier), who has been hired by Mr. X, (John McGiver), a suspicious husband, to find out who his wife (Lise Bourdin) is seeing on the side. When he discovers...

7.3

5K votes

7.3

5K votes

Design for Living

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Fredric March · Gary Cooper · Miriam Hopkins · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis Painter George Curtis and playwright Tom Chambers, flatmates in a Paris apartment, meet fellow American and commercial artist Gilda Farrell on a train bound for the French capital. While both men are immediately smitten by the girl, she can't make...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Sergeant York

1941 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · George Tobias · Joan Leslie

Synopsis True story of the farm boy who made the transition from religious pacifist to World War I hero. The Valley of the 3 Forks of the Wolf, located in the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee, is the home of the Yorks,...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Wings

1927 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Clara Bow · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Richard Arlen · Gary Cooper

Synopsis In 1917, Jack Powell is a young man with passion for cars. His next door neighbor is Mary Preston, who is in deep love for him, but Jack does not notice her. Jack indeed loves Sylvia Lewis, but she is...

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

Man of the West

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Gary Cooper · Julie London · Lee J. Cobb · Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

City Streets

1931 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Gary Cooper · Sylvia Sidney · Paul Lukas · Wynne Gibson

Synopsis Nan, a racketeer's stepdaughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Despite Nan's prodding, The Kid has no ambitions about joining the rackets and making enough money to support Nan in the lifestyle she's accustomed to. Her...

7.1

755 votes

7.1

755 votes

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

1935 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · Franchot Tone · Richard Cromwell · Guy Standing

Synopsis Sweeping adventure set in India of a gallant trio ordered into border warfare with Afghans and guerillas.

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Pride of the Yankees

1942 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Gary Cooper · Teresa Wright · Babe Ruth · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Gary Cooper plays Lou Gehrig, the first baseman for the Yanks who suffered from a crippling and incurable disease. Even when Gehrig was a student at Columbia University, the press had already pegged him as a top ballplayer. Soon the...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Morocco

1930 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Gary Cooper · Adolphe Menjou · Ulrich Haupt

Synopsis In Morocco the nightclub singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich) meets two men, a soldier, Tom Brown (Gary Cooper) and a millionaire, La Bessiere(Adolphe Menjou). She falls in love with the soldier, though the millionaire wants to marry her. "You’d better go...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Friendly Persuasion

1956 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gary Cooper · Dorothy McGuire · Marjorie Main · Anthony Perkins

Synopsis The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religous sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Desire

1936 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Gary Cooper · John Halliday · William Frawley

Synopsis Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to spain, to get the pearls out of France, but getting the pearls, back from him prooves to be difficult without...

7.0

758 votes

7.0

758 votes