American actor, known by the great public mainly by his western. Its true name was Frank James Cooper; it was born in Helena, Montana, and began his race like actor with small interventions in dumb films. Its first important paper was in Flower of the desert, directed by Henry King in 1926.

Like protagonist of the virginiano of Victor Fleming in 1929, Cooper became one of first stars of the sonorous cinema, and outlined the type of taciturn, sacrificed and heroic personage who so many times incarnated throughout thirty years of race, although also interpreted capably humorous papers.

Between his more beautiful creations it would be necessary to mention Good bye to the arms (1932, Frank Borzage), the secret to live (1936, Frank Capra), Beau Geste (1939, William A. Wellman), Juan Nobody (1940, Frank Capra), By whom they double the bells? (1943, Sam Wood), the spring (1949, King Vidor), Veracruz (1954, Robert Aldrich), the tree of the hanged person (1959, Delmer Daves) and Single before the danger (1952, Fred Zinneman), by which he received his second Oscar (first he had been by Sergeant York, in 1941, Howard Hawks). Shortly before his death in 1961 him a honorary Oscar by his was granted “very memorable creations in the screen”.