Gary Cooper is an American actor, star of silent films, westerns, melodramas and musicals. He became famous for his natural, reserved manner of playing. His role is American heroes.
Biography and personal life
Gary was born on May 7, 1901. His homeland is the American city of Helena. Cooper died in Los Angeles on May 13, 1961, when he was 60 years old. He grew up in a family of English immigrants. His parents are Charles Henry Cooper and Alice Brazier. Gary's father was a lawyer and owned a ranch. At the height of his career, he took up the post of Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana.
In 1909, the mother took her sons to England. Gary was educated at Dunstable Grammar School in Bedfordshire. Gary studied Latin and French. In 1912, the family returned to the United States, where Cooper enrolled at the Johnson Grammar School in Helena.
In his youth, Gary suffered a hip injury due to a car accident. Doctors recommended that he ride a horse. As a result, the actor's gait became unbalanced. This subsequently became the hallmark of the American star. At school, Gary attended a discussion club, where he became interested in drama. Young Cooper also studied painting and studied this art at Grinnell College in Iowa. There he joined a drama club. Despite his successes in acting, Cooper still wanted to become an artist.
In 1933, the wedding of Gary Cooper and Veronica Balfe took place. The couple had a daughter. Gary left his family for a three-year period for an affair with colleague Patricia Neal.
Career
He started out as an extra and a stuntman to pay for a painting course. But soon he began to get roles in films, mainly in westerns. Cooper is a two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actor twice. He received an award for his performance in the film "High Noon" and for his role in the film "Sergeant York". In 1961, the actor was awarded an honorary Oscar for his overall contribution to the development of American cinema. For almost his entire acting career, Gary was on the first lines of the rating of American filmmakers. Also, Cooper was a very popular and highly paid actor of his period. In the list of the best actors of the American Film Institute, Gary is ranked 11th.
Creation
In 1926, Cooper was invited to the Western Victory of Barbara Worth. Together with Ronald Coleman and Wilma Banks, he played the main role in it. Director Henry King made a film about how an engineer and a cowboy vie for the attention of a local beauty. A year later, John Waters invited Cooper to play the lead role in the western "Mesmerized by Arizona". The actor began to receive 3 times more than his fee in his previous work.
Then Gary starred in the melodrama Children of Divorce with Clara Bow and Esther Ralston, the military action movie Wings with Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen and Clara Bow, as well as in the western "The Last Outcast" with Betty Jewel and Herbert Pryor. The most successful films with Cooper's participation were such films as "Love in the Afternoon" in 1957, "Exactly at Noon" in 1952, "Meet John Doe" in 1941, "Mr. Deeds Moves to Town" in 1936, "Desire" in 1936 of the year, "With a Light" in 1941, "Undefeated" in 1947 and "From Now and Forever" in 1934.
