"Whatever happened to Gary Cooper? The strong silent type!" - Tony Soprano

This documentary should've been called Gary Cooper: the Strong Silent Type

I really miss the golden era Hollywood actors and actresses. I remember a time when it took a couple hours to decide which movie to watch. Now it takes a couple years before there is a movie worth watching. Danny Kaye, Jimmy Stewart, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, James Cagney. Oh so many worthy actors and actresses made for so many worthy movies to watch. Immorality has killed Hollywood

God I wish there were more men, more human beings like Gary Cooper. I grew up on films like this. Not all men of that era were men like him, but we certainly could use more like Gary Cooper today.

He was wonderful. I love that he grew up friends with the local Native Americans. That alone shows decency and integrity.

I “fell in love” with Gary Cooper at the ripe old age of 11 in 1960!! I loved the way he acted, the strong silent type,😍 he was just so perfectly GORGEOUS and ever since he embodied “my type” VERY difficult to come by, and though l had plenty of boyfriends and married young, l finally found him in Italy at the age of 54!! I told him he was the second most handsome man in the world, none could beat Gary Cooper🤩❤️🤩

HOLLYWOOD is not what it was then. Cooper was an all American actor. A hero and a man who loved this country.

I don't how else say it -- I love you, Coop -- heart, body + soul...What a Gift you were and always will be...💞

Gary Cooper is one of my favorites of all time!!!!! 💝💝

The best of American culture was embodied in actors like Gary Cooper.

Gary Cooper was my Favorite,he had to be the most genuine of all the greats back then,my favorite movie of his was Sergeant York💜 My father resembled him allot and when my Dad passed away in 1972,I would watch Gary's movies and remember my Dad foundly.😻

He was known for his impeccable taste and style, much of it taught to him by a lovely American heiress. In fact there is a line in the song PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ: (Fred Astaire's version) -"dressed up like a million dollar trooper - trying hard to look like Gary Cooper, super duper.." He was an icon of fashion at the time Irving Berlin wrote that..

We need more Gary Cooper's today!!!!

His daughter got both parents looks. His wife was stunning. He's just an awesome guy

Garry Cooper along with Charlton Heston John Wayne what a era names that will forever in the motion picture industry God bless them all ,,

The greatest of actors I loved watching Gary Cooper I still do

There will never be another actor like Gary Cooper he is one of a kind. He was one of a kink he was my all time actor. Rest In Peace Mr Cooper.

I named my youngst son after him. We don't live in Montana, unfortunately, but he is a natural artist and he has grown to 6' 5". He's charming and kind. Gary Cooper is a good man to take after.

Just saw Mr Deeds Goes To Town. What a great movie! He was wonderful!

Great. Cooper personified the American spirit like no other.

My favorite Cooper movie and one of the better movies of the war era was "For whom the Bell Tolls". He and Ingrid Bergman were breathtaking in the electricity they generated on the screen. He possessed a completely facile sincerity in his acting style that few have ever achieved.

He was a great actor , a stunning man and so very much humane ! I absolutely adore him !

Garry Cooper died 18yrs before I was born. But I've been "In Love" with Mr. Cooper since the first time I saw Love in the Afternoon. I have loved old black and white movies since I was about 12. But didn't have great access to many of them until I was in my 20s. First time I saw Love In The Afternoon I was about 25. I now own 3 DVD copies. LOL

- Cooper, who was famously known for his minimalistic laconic way of acting, was once asked for advice from an up and coming young actor. "How do you create those long thoughtful pauses that are so iconic on screen?" he asked. Cooper, who was somewhat embarrassed, scratched his feet in the dirt, thought a little and replied, "Oh gee that's just me trying to remember my lines!" It's my favourite Cooper story and probably just about sums him up.

The first Gary Cooper movie I saw with my father ( a fan of Gary's ) was "The Hanging Tree". Such a fine and a great actor.👌👌

he was so great! and his daughter is a beautiful and well spoken woman! I guess that's good genetics and good parenting! this is a wonderful story!!!

I love this guy so much. Harrison Ford reminded me of him. Similar quiet man personality. Love both of them.

Gary Cooper was my Mom favorite actor. She loved Gary and his performance as an actor. I know Mom liked “For Whom the Bells Toll,” one of her favorite movies of many of them since actress Ingrid Bergman was her favorite actress. Gary Cooper was indeed a great actor, very handsome, classy and charismatic man adored by many women. Men like Gary Cooper don’t exist anymore, these actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood were classy gentlemen and most definitely they are IRREPLACEABLE. Love this video it is beautiful and lovely. Thank you for the upload of the biography of a great man and actor sorely missed by many and all his fans. He was indeed an American hero. He might be gone but never forgotten. Gary Cooper left a lasting impression that will never die. God bless his soul always. 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌🙌

This is a very nice documentary. No annoying narration. Just the people who knew him. He was a wonderful human being. Ive always adored him.

Grew up watching western, Gary Cooper was top of the list. After 50 years Iam still watching the old classics and appreciating their work

Gary Cooper was one of those people for whom the expression 'they don't make 'em like that any more' was written. He split with his wife for a couple of years which wasn't good but she seems to have been quite philosophical about it and in the end the 'other woman' Patricia Neal 'did the decent thing'. He appears to have been loved and respected by everybody both on and off the set and he was an anathema to Hollywood in that he wasn't smug, selfish, egotistic or rude but was generous, quiet, well-mannered and kind. A measure of his 'honesty' and easy-going attitude was shown by his very good friendship with Ernest Hemingway because politically they were 'poles apart'.

Gary Cooper was one of the most special actors of all time.

Gary Cooper was so wonderful.

" Sargent York " He Was Born to Play That Part , One of My All Time Favorite Movies , RIP Coop

Loved Gary Cooper. So sad to lose our great actors of old.

Gary Cooper ist unvergessen.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Coop was fascinating. It seems that he didn't act and everything looks totally natural. Everyone who ever tried acting knows how difficult it is to leave that impression.

My Dad introduced me to Gary Cooper through the movie Sergeant York. I recently introduced him to my daughter 36yo) through the same movie as well as Pride of the Yankees. Can't wait for my 6yo grandson to be old enough to appreciate those and many more Gary Cooper movies.

What a lovely daughter he left us with !

Meet John Doe is a film powerfully relevant to today! Cooper and Stanwyck blow me away.

One of the definitive three Kings of Hollywood.Gary Cooper born in 1901 and died in 1961.The other two were Clark Gable and John Wayne. Cooper won his Oscar for "High Noon" and also an honorary Oscar.

So utterly handsome, what a looker! And a real cowboy to boot!! Love❤️❤️💕

The most handsome , brilliant actor in the Hollywood history . Among the many fantastic actor's in the golden years of move making in Hollywood .

No one said "Yep" like Coop! Women loved him!

I like Gary Cooper and loved his movies. He was a talented actor and would be sadly missed.

Thank you for this great video! Gary Cooper, everything a great actor and leading man should be. I love all of his movies!

Gary Cooper was a great guy who personified everything that was good in America.... patriotic, decent, good looking, a great actor without any airs, down to earth. What a contrast to present day Hollywood!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gary Cooper was a gentleman, kind, polite, unassuming, and it showed through his acting. That is why his fans couldn't accept him as the bad guy. He was simply to good a person to be convincing enough to be bad. He played all his good guy roles to perfection...great actor, great man, great American.

I watched many of Gary Cooper’s Movies , And he commanded such a Wonderful personal presence on films.

I love the Gary Cooper who played the rawness and masculinity of the American male, naturally, with subtleness and grace.. He also had an humble, humorous nature. Men like him don't age in our minds because he is a true "icon". I will never forget him in Sergeant York, as a World War 1 TN hero, who believed the Bible.

Gary Cooper was my ideal leading man and hero. I enjoyed him when I was young and today at 66 years old still have a wonderful memory of him in his roles as an actor. He was simple, he was genuine and he was a beautiful looking man. Strong smart silent type with enough inner spark to set off most humans to new level of feelings. Thank you Gary Cooper for your wonderful time as an actor and human being.

I rew up watching his movies in the early 50's..he was a Hero...to America..and still is to those of us who remember him...

Gary Cooper quote: As Shakespeare said-- all the world's a stage. It wasn't that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That's why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. It's still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way and keep right on going.

Such a great actor, he made you believe in him. RIP.

Gary Cooper was handsome, sensitive, vulnerable. Wonderful actor. My favorites of his films are "High Noon" and "For Whom The Bell Tolls."

This is the best video bio on Cooper...Well, written, edited and also validated by his daughter's commentary and that of Heston, G. C. Scott and others. Well done. TY.

It is so true what they said at the end of this video: “There are no more Gary Cooper and Frank Capra,”. They are definitely gone. So very sad about that.

I thoroughly enjoyed this doco on Gary Coopers life and career. What a wonderful human being. One of my all-time favourite actors.

One truly more personal insight Gary Cooper life.

Gary Cooper lives... 💔 Love & light from Brazil.

He was one of the greatest actors during his time. He had that eye catching look. He looked so handsome in his clothes. I enjoyed the film he and Pat Neil made together. There were other films I like too.

Beautiful man inside and out. Coop reminds me of my grandfather. The two could have been brothers.

The way that long tall texan scammed judge roy bean in the westerner was priceless. One of his best roles in my mind.

God Bless Gary! God Bless all Gary's!

This is such a MARVELOUS Treat!!❤️

A million thanks, as seeing this has been a blessing. Without a doubt, Garry Cooper like Jimmy Steward was the face of all that is noble in the American people.

I have Sargent York, Vera Curz and Pride of the Yankees in DVD! Loved him a lot!

What a wise mother to send her rough-hewn lad to a British school. It gave him an elegance he may not have had otherwise.

He be an icon of his own, He was so classic so beautiful a man. He a true hero!

Ernest Borgnine was Gary Cooper's best friend. I asked him, what was Gary Cooper like? He said that he was exactly like what you saw on the big screen. He also told me a little anecdotal tale, Gary Cooper talked him into trying his flying mount on a horse. Ernest said that he was speaking in a very high pitched voice for a time after that. He also said That the Coop would mount while running and never missed the stirrup and that he had never seen anyone else replicate that. This conversation was held in Lewiston Idaho in the early 1970"s in St. Joseph's Hospital where he was visiting a filmmaker who was hospitalized for a time while filming Breakheart Pass. I am not certain but I believe that gentleman was a Mr. Flowers, and I was taking care of him at the time.

There ain’t never a horse that couldn’t be rode ,and there ain’t never a rider that couldn’t be thrown,Talk about your great “humbling quote “ Great words of wisdom for those cowboys and cowgirls out there that think that they horse won’t buck.

Definitely the strong, silent , and gentle type..He had a special ability with acting..he didn't have to try ..it just came naturally..One in a million..So very handsome,,,He definitely had that "Star quality". Gone too soon..

love Coop, but with High Noon, the score, filming, and the incredible editing are the stars along with him.

My favourite Gary Cooper movies; Sgt. York and For Whom the Bells Tolls.

Everyone from Robert Redford to Tom Hanks cited Cooper as their idol.

I think the most handsome actor of all times, followed by Cary Grant and Gregory Peck! His eyes were so gentle and kind!

He was always my favorite. A man of great principle.

Tampy: Gary Cooper, I am not the only one who fell in love with Gary . When he appeared on screen, we all felt we knew him. I know it's crazy ..even my husband understood & smiled..

Cooper, one of my all time favorite actors and yes, hero! The epitome of the all American hero sorely missing these days with principles and morals! We're not like that anymore, we've unfortunately lost the idealism and optimism we once had as a society! We've grown more cynical and pessimistic! Boy, could we sure use another Gary Cooper these days! Thanks for a great documentary on him including his beautiful daughter!

I rediscovered Gary Cooper after watching The Fountainhead recently. I found him so appealing that I've since watched every movie I could find. I love his looks but even more his easy way of inhabiting every character he portrayed. I saw Friendly Persuasion and Love In The Afternoon when I was in high school. His charm, sensuality and tenderness has left a much deeper impact now that I've lived through many decades. Of all the actors from yesteryear it's Gary Cooper whom I find the most appealing.

Reminds me of my late son , screen writer Brian Nohr. Play wright. In L. A. Wrote Robin Hood for Warner's, Third Rock from The Son, Paramount, Si-Fi for Sony. We too lived in Rugget mountains near Poconos. Before , after he left Drew University, to California. We both totally admired, Gary Cooper. Son also tall, but Scandinavian. He too, as I 'm an Artist loved Art. I would paint his Theater Back drops. Cooper one off my son's favorite, but Robert Redford, and Paul New man. We. Loved Westerns. My late son was a Black Belt, and got extra money teaching at Bruce Lee Center in L.A. Wich got him to Warner Brothers, promoting international Bruce's films, while he wrote. Good times , clean, energetics.🌃🇺🇸🇩🇰🦅🗽🤠favorite:" The Pride off The Yankees". ⚾🏆And. High Noon. Worked at Premier , as ViP group serving, set off High Noon, in Bar , Champagne! Before next week's set was torn down, in early 2000 . Lots off tears! Late at night.🌃

Gary Cooper always reminded me of my father. He was tall and gentle . A real gentleman.

"The Naked Edge" Truely excellent film. Worth watching folks...A young film makers guide in doing it right.

Cooper was extraordinary! What a gift he was to the film industry, and to us movie goers, an inimitable presence never ever to be duplicated.

What a lovely documentary of a great actor RIP Coop🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

They don't make movies the way they use to. They made wonderful moves without sex scenes and no swearing. Good wholesome movies. Gary Cooper was a talented actor. Just loved his movies.

Love his movies a classy gentleman!

What a joy to see George C. Scott talking about Coop. Two greats.

I've always been in love with Gary Cooper, since I was young.

Many moments of this biography had me feeling quite emotional but when they said that what the military men wanted from Cooper was the Lou Gehrig speech is when I cried😢 I thought of my brother in Viet Nam and hoped that someone, for at least a moment, brought this kind of hope to his tortured soul😞

A great western actor my favorite Gary Cooper movie will allways b high noon with grace Kelly

My favourite actor of all time.

What I liked the most about "The Coop," is how he always made acting look so EASY. Well, folks, it ain't so easy. But he could say it all with a simple, "Yup." My favorite early Cooper film was "Sargeant York," because it epitomized his silent strength so well. In his later career, it was a sweet film that is still one of my favorites, "Friendly Persuasion," about a Quaker family during the Civil War who has to decide to either follow the dictates of their religion, or the stirrings of their hearts. If you enjoy movies from a "gentler" time, movies with heart, catch it. It's important.

I loved him in Meet john Doe he was a legend

An incredible man in talent and soul.

A very sensitive and beautiful documentation. I've always liked and loved Gary Cooper. 🙂❤️ And what a wonderful human being his daughter is. I like her very much too. Writing this here from Germany.

I was named gary after gary cooper my mom loved his movies I was born in 1952

Having seen Gary Cooper many times during my child hood and always in cowboy movies.

I first became aware of Gary Cooper as a child in the early 50's when he starred in High Noon. I really understood the action portrayed as he walked down that street all alone with all those conflicting emotions flickering across his face. Of course at the time to me it was for real but later I realized how talented his acting was - perhaps because he started in silent films?

I truly miss actors who at least on screen set a strong moral example. Many, admittedly and unfortunately, did not hold the same off screen. Nevertheless they offered a positive example to impressionable youths - like me.