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3	->''"Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong, silent type? That was an American. He wasn't in touch with his feelings. He just did what he had to do."''
4	-->-- '''Tony Soprano''', ''Series/TheSopranos''
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6	Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was one of the most popular American leading men during UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra and UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood.
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8	Cooper was born in Montana, the child of English immigrants. As a young man, he managed his parents' ranch and drew editorial cartoons for a Helena newspaper before moving to Los Angeles in 1924, following his parents. Shortly thereafter, Cooper started getting work as an extra, and in the late silent era started getting featured roles, including a small part in the first film ever to win Best Picture, ''Film/{{Wings\|1927}}''. His first sound film, ''The Virginian'', made him a star. Cooper typically portrayed taciturn, slow-talking, square-jawed heroes from Middle America. He played a lot of cowboys and sheriffs in [[TheWestern westerns]]. Offscreen, he was also well known as TheCasanova, having affairs with many of his female co-stars.
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10	Cooper had a relatively narrow range, almost always playing romantic leads or action leads, but was praised for his understated acting style and screen performances, which made him appear natural and authentic on screen. He was nominated for five Oscars, winning the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Actor for ''Film/SergeantYork'' and ''Film/HighNoon''. He made over 100 films, working until shortly before his death from cancer in 1961, having just turned 60.
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13	!!Gary Cooper films with pages on this wiki include:
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15	* ''Film/TheWinningOfBarbaraWorth'' (1926)
16	* ''Film/{{Wings\|1927}}'' (1927)
17	* ''Film/{{Morocco}}'' (1930)
18	* ''Film/AFarewellToArms'' (1932)
19	* ''[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice in Wonderland]]'' (1933)
20	* ''Film/DesignForLiving'' (1933)
21	* ''Film/TheLivesOfABengalLancer'' (1935)
22	* ''Film/PeterIbbetson'' (1935)
23	* ''Film/{{Desire\|1936}}'' (1936)
24	* ''Film/MrDeedsGoesToTown'' (1936)
25	* ''Literature/BeauGeste'' (1939)
26	* ''Film/BallOfFire'' (1941)
27	* ''Film/MeetJohnDoe'' (1941)
28	* ''Film/SergeantYork'' (1941)
29	* ''Film/ThePrideOfTheYankees'' (1942)
30	* ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'' (1943)
31	* ''Film/SaratogaTrunk'' (1945)
32	* ''Literature/TheFountainhead'' (1949)
33	* ''Film/HighNoon'' (1952)
34	* ''Film/VeraCruz'' (1954)
35	* ''Film/TheCourtMartialOfBillyMitchell'' (1955)
36	* ''Film/FriendlyPersuasion'' (1956)
37	* ''Film/LoveInTheAfternoon'' (1957)
38	* ''Film/ManOfTheWest'' (1958)
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41	!!Tropes associated with his works:
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43	* BigEater: While not quite to Creator/MarlonBrando levels, he was known for his voracious appetite, often eating whole cherry pies for lunch and joking that during his early years, his "starvation diet at the time ran to no less than a dozen eggs a day, a couple of loaves of bread, a platter of bacon, and just enough pork chops between meals to keep me going until I got home for supper." Despite this, he always remained exceptionally thin due to his very active lifestyle, only gaining a modest amount of weight in his final years and even then still remaining a slender 190 pounds at his heaviest.
44	* TheBigGuy: Was one of the tallest actors of his time at roughly 6'3''. Creator/ClarkGable was said to have joked that Hollywood didn't think that there would be anyone taller than him, and then they remembered that Cooper was already there.
45	* ManlyMan: Along with Creator/JohnWayne, one of the stars who epitomized masculinity with a dominating serenity during the 50s. In real life, he was scrutinized during the '30s and '40s for not being masculine enough, and as a child, when he came back to Montana from England dressed like a gentleman, he was openly mocked for it.
46	%%* PrettyBoy: In his early works.
47	* TheStoic: His characters convey resolve and power through a sturdy, deliberate silence. As [[Series/TheSopranos Tony ]][[Characters/TheSopranosTonySoprano Soprano]] would put it: "The strong, silent type".
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